I've been using the VT1828S codec support from ALSA git for the last few weeks. It seems to work fine, but there are some problems showing up in dmesg:
Oct 25 20:46:14 newcastle kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:683: No response from codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x02af0900 Oct 25 20:46:15 newcastle kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:698: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x02af0900
It seems like the cmd isn't always the same, previously it was 0x024f0c00. Is there something bad about this command that could be causing the response timeout? Also, disabling MSI for one occurrence of this seems a bit paranoid..
Also saw one of these:
Oct 26 21:13:20 newcastle kernel: hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
and PulseAudio also complained:
Oct 26 00:27:50 newcastle pulseaudio[16530]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Oct 26 00:27:50 newcastle pulseaudio[16530]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Oct 26 00:27:50 newcastle pulseaudio[16530]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.