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I've spent way too many hours trying to figure this out through forum posts.

As far as I could gather there was a configuration file that could be edited but now that configuration file is nowhere to be seen so I need to create that file but I'm not sure what to pun in that file.

The other problem is that all forum posts that talk about editing a configuration file is for something called Pulse and some forum posts mention that Mint doesn't use that anymore, so back to 0.

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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 6 days ago

What do you mean when you say "the audio fade in"?

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

After a few seconds of no sound playing when it starts again it does a fade in starting quiet and getting louder in a span of one second or second and a half.

Aside of being annoying, that part is less important, it has the problem of muting all notification sounds that are too short.

I've read that is something about power savings.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 5 days ago

What are you playing sound through?

[-] Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I've had the same issue. Doesn't matter what you play the audio from (system notification, video in Firefox, ...) I also have that problem in windows so I'm suspecting a bios setting but I can't find anything and any online search returns only results about "audio not working at all"

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

What do you mean? Like the speakers? I have the line out connected to an amplifier. But that hasn't changed in years. This fade in problem started now after a fresh install.

[-] best_redditor@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago

too stupid to think but can you buy a new similar audio driver

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

What do you exactly mean by audio driver?

[-] best_redditor@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago

not sure...like i said i am stupid and i thought their might be a audio component driver like the gpu diver but i guess it does not exist but i got a better idea,read this (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php)

[-] best_redditor@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

ok it looks like you won't read the manual so i am gonna spell it out for you:

Sound issues

Linux Mint moved to a new sound server called Pipewire.

To check which sound server is running, use the following command:

inxi -A

If you're unable to get the sound working, you can try to go back to the older sound server called PulseAudio.

apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin systemctl enable --user pulseaudio sudo reboot

Upstream bug report for choppy sound over HDMI: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025453

sorry for not being helpful before

this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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