Re: First ~500ms of audio gets dropped

[Sam Varshavchik]

Tim via users writes:
> On Sun, 2020-01-12 at 22:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > One of my laptops has a minor, but an annoying, glitch with audio
> > playback.  I've observed this behavior with both Firefox and other
> > audio playback applications. When audio playback starts /for the
> > first time/, maybe the first 400-500ms of audio gets dropped, and
> > then the rest of the audio plays fine.
>
> Is there some kind of power saving mode with your hardware?  Putting
> supposedly inactive hardware to sleep.

I have no knowledge of any such thing, or even know where to look. I went  
through the BIOS setting, found nothing along those lines.