Thank you. I don't know if you know anything about guitar but it sounds
like a distortion pedal was activated. Overdriven sound. The volume was low
and I was watching a YouTube video in firefox. It started the distorted
sound in the middle of the video. I paused it then left. Came back about a
half hour later hit play and it played fine. It has done this only twice.
Again, thanks for the help and thanks for Ubuntu.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 12:25 AM Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Although maybe you're not talking about distortion in the same way I am.
> It's possible this is bug 1821663 so please try an older kernel version
> like 4.18...
>
> https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1822446
>
> Title:
>   [B450M DS3H, Realtek ALC887-VD] Sound is occasionally distorted
>
> Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Sound from youtube in playing firefox is distorted. After waiting a
>   half hour the problem went away. i then tried to file a bug report.
>   while playing the first set of test tones the test tone played fine
>   after it finished the youtube audio was distorted again. then the
>   second set of test tones from the troubleshooter played and were
>   distorted as well.
>
>   Also in the summary it ended up saying "FRONT" but it is the rear
>   green jack on my motherboard that i am plugged into.
>
>   Description:  Ubuntu Disco Dingo (development branch)
>   Release:      19.04
>
>   5.0.0-8-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 12 21:58:11 UTC 2019 x86_64
>   x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
>   Package: pulseaudio 1:12.2-2ubuntu1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1
>   Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
>   Architecture: amd64
>   AudioDevicesInUse:
>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>    /dev/snd/controlC1:  mike       1833 F.... pulseaudio
>    /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p:   mike       1833 F...m pulseaudio
>    /dev/snd/controlC0:  mike       1833 F.... pulseaudio
>   CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
>   Date: Sat Mar 30 21:02:38 2019
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-30 (0 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190329)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: pulseaudio
>   Symptom: audio
>   Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:Generic
> successful
>   Symptom_Card: Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) HD Audio Controller - HD-Audio
> Generic
>   Symptom_Jack: Green Headphone Out, Front
>   Symptom_PulsePlaybackTest: PulseAudio playback test failed
>   Symptom_Type: Digital clip or distortion, or "overdriven" sound
>   Title: [B450M DS3H, Realtek ALC887-VD, Green Headphone Out, Front] Sound
> is distorted
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2019
>   dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: F4
>   dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
>   dmi.board.name: B450M DS3H-CF
>   dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>   dmi.board.version: x.x
>   dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
>   dmi.chassis.type: 3
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Default string
>   dmi.chassis.version: Default string
>   dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF4:bd01/25/2019:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnB450MDS3H:pvrDefaultstring:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnB450MDS3H-CF:rvrx.x:cvnDefaultstring:ct3:cvrDefaultstring:
>   dmi.product.family: Default string
>   dmi.product.name: B450M DS3H
>   dmi.product.sku: Default string
>   dmi.product.version: Default string
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>
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