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

[Takashi Iwai]

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


thanks,

Takashi