Have been regularly applying Software Updates with varying degrees of success.
One thing I did see, once, which was interesting. The "Tick Tock" noise happened at the same time that the volume indicator started changing "quiet then loud". Theory - there are two things changing the sound volume - one quiet, one loud and the ticking noise is happening because of that. So, where does the sound system do that, then? If that can be found, the bug can be killed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899145 Title: Getting a repeating, white-noise like "tik tok" from speakers Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug appears on 20.04 and 20.10 I believe it is a kernel bug. Currently reporting from Ubuntu 20.10 (beta), having updated packages. Kernel is x86_64, 5.8.0-21 It can be mitigated by the echo command,namely: echo -e "\a\a\a" So I wrote a small shell script to do this:- #!/usr/bin/env bash while true do date echo -e "\aShh..." sleep 5 done ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: linux-image-5.8.0-21-generic 5.8.0-21.22 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-21.22-generic 5.8.13 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu49 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: thomas 1239 F.... pulseaudio CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Oct 9 10:45:13 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-09 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Beta amd64 (20200930) IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. enp63s0 no wireless extensions. MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dc5700 Microtower ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-21-generic root=UUID=9853fe4c-53c3-4680-8919-1e3bd68539d4 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-5.8.0-21-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-5.8.0-21-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.190 RfKill: SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/13/2007 dmi.bios.release: 2.4 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 786E2 v02.04 dmi.board.name: 0A60h dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.type: 6 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786E2v02.04:bd04/13/2007:br2.4:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqdc5700Microtower:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn0A60h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct6:cvr: dmi.product.family: 103C_53307F dmi.product.name: HP Compaq dc5700 Microtower dmi.product.sku: GE018ET#ABU dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1899145/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
