Re: [PATCH 1/4] ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LEDs for HP 855 G8

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:12:49 +0100,
Alexander Sergeyev wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:45:46AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > The problem is about the built-in drivers, or do you see the very
> > same problem even with modules?
> 
> The problem is definitely there for the built-in drivers which I've
> tested quite a lot. It's the primary usecase for me, as I tend to
> build minimal device-specific and self-contained kernels in Gentoo.
> 
> For builds with modules things are not very consistent. Live Ubuntu
> with an older (and probably vendor-patched) kernel works just fine,
> but when I pull Ubuntu kernel sources and build it with the mostly
> same config (including modules) it boots with no sound in
> Gentoo. Mostly same -- because I need nvme drivers to be built-in as I
> don't use initrd.

Sounds like some timing issue, then.  It's pretty hard to debug,
unfortunately.

You may try to get the codec proc dump with COEF by passing
snd_hda_codec.dump_coef=1 module option for both working and
non-working cases.  Check the difference of the COEF and apply the
difference with hda-verb manually.


> > AFAIK, quite a few AMD platforms tend to have some issues with
> > various devices showing initialization problems at the early
> > boot. Just reloading / rebinding the device later often helps.
> 
> Is it possible to do with the built-in drivers?

You can unbind and re-bind the PCI (HD-audio controller) device via
sysfs.


Takashi