SUMMARY Kmail creates a conflict with the audio that you hear disturbed and out of sync if you use HDMI audio output. If I close Kmail the audio returns to normal. The problem only occurs with the HDMI output. Hardware in desktop use with Amd Radeon R5 230 graphics The problem has occurred for a long time both on Tumleweed. Below are the hardware features. A greeting. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. start kmail 2. audio disturbed and out of sync 3. stop kmail the audio returns to normal OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: MacOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Tumbleweed - Leap 15 - Kde Neon (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.4.13 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0 Qt Version: 5.11.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION z System: Host: linux-9w7x Kernel: 4.19.4-1-default x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.3 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20181126 Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E1-522 v: V2.09 serial: <filter> Mobo: Acer model: Aspire E1-522 v: V2.09 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 2.09 date: 11/19/2013 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.0 Wh condition: 28.0/37.0 Wh (76%) CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD E2-3800 APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB Speed: 879 MHz min/max: 800/1300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 879 2: 809 3: 831 4: 820 Graphics: Device-1: AMD Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series] driver: radeon v: kernel Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.3 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 4.19.4-1-default LLVM 6.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.7 Audio: Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.4-1-default Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx IF: enp1s0f0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: <filter> Device-3: Lite-On Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 23.00 GiB (20.6%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 50.01 GiB used: 6.89 GiB (13.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 ID-2: /home size: 58.97 GiB used: 16.10 GiB (27.3%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda3 ID-3: /opt size: 50.01 GiB used: 6.89 GiB (13.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 ID-4: /tmp size: 50.01 GiB used: 6.89 GiB (13.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 ID-5: /var size: 50.01 GiB used: 6.89 GiB (13.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 65 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 235 Uptime: 3h 27m Memory: 7.24 GiB used: 3.29 GiB (45.5%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.27
I solved, the problem was speech-dispatcher. I disabled speech-dispatcher and now the problem is gone. A greeting.
carlo's fix is working but the bug is still exist's a good year later.
Ugh, so *this* is what was causing that horrible sound distortion? I found this bug after finally noticing that it only happened when starting KMail, and only when using the HDMI output, too. I always restarted pulseaudio as a workaround, but disabling autospawn for speechd looks like it did the trick. I would have preferred a way to turn it off in the KMail settings, though (at least I couldn't find anything related).
I opened an issue with speechd, see https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues/446, since I assume kmail isn't directly at fault. For completeness sake, I'm seeing this on Gentoo with kmail et al. at 20.08.3 and speech-dispatcher 0.9.1 (I can't test my OpenSuse TW laptop because I don't have an HDMI adapter for it). I think the one thing that would be nice were an easy way to disable text-to-speech via GUI, maybe this bug can be repurposed for that?