Sound broken (first couple of seconds play looping) on Sony Vaio VPX11S1E (HDA, ALC262)

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 9/29/22 08:10, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:33:55 +0200,
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 9/11/22 09:05, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:15:59 +0200,
>>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 19:52:36 +0200,
>>>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> To test some kernel work (backlight refactor) which I have been doing
>>>>> I have booted Debian Testing with a 6.0 kernel on a Sony Vaio VPX11S1E
>>>>> (which is ancient).
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed that when tab-completing something in a terminal the
>>>>> terminal bell sound would keep repeating and playing another longer
>>>>> sound sample gets stuck with the first couple of seconds of that
>>>>> sample looping.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is under GNOME3 with pulseaudio as sound server.
>>>>>
>>>>> I accidentally found an interesting workaround if I run:
>>>>>
>>>>> aplay -Dplughw:CARD=MID,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav
>>>>>
>>>>> once, then that works properly and after that the problem is gone...
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that this laptop does have only 1 speaker AFAICT.
>>>>>
>>>>> alsa-info output below.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would be happy to test any patches / module-options which might
>>>>> fix this.
>>>>
>>>> Could you check the very latest Linus tree (6.0-rc5)?
>>>> There has been a regression fix for HD-audio, and possibly this might
>>>> be your case.
>>>
>>> And if this doesn't change the behavior, try snoop=0 option for
>>> snd-hda-intel module.
>>
>> Thanks, I've just tried with 6.0-rc6 both with and without snoop=0
>> and neither helps I'm afraid.
> 
> Then one another thing could be position_fix option of snd-hda-intel.
> Otherwise we need bisection -- supposing it worked well in the past.

Thanks, position_fix=1 does the trick (I did not try any of
the other possible values).

I see there is a snd_pci_quirk position_fix_list, so I guess
I should prepare a patch adding a quirk for this?

Or are some other position_fix values preferred and should
I try those first?

> But as it's a so old laptop, maybe not worth...

Agreed, but it looks like a bisect won't be necessary :)

Regards,

Hans