[Issue Report] Realtek 8852AE Bluetooth audio issues while using WiFi

From: Muhammad Usama Anjum
Date: Mon Feb 13 2023 - 15:38:29 EST


Hi,

I'm running 6.1.0-3 kernel and getting Bluetooth audio glitches constantly
on a pair of buds and all the time when WiFi is connecting and working on
RTL 8852AE card. Some Bluetooth audio devices work fine without issue. But
some devices get glitchy audio all the time when Wifi is being used. The
audio becomes more and more glitchy as the WiFi use increases. [1] mentions
that the problem for Realtek 8723BE gets solved by switching to 5GHz wifi
or upgrading drives. Is this issue present on other operating systems for
this chip as well? Can it be solved for Linux if Wifi is used at 2.4 GHz?

Any pointers on this problem would be much appreciated.

04:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852AE
802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
Subsystem: Lenovo RTL8852AE 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 100
IOMMU group: 15
Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at d1700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtw89_8852ae
Kernel modules: rtw89_8852ae

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bluetooth_headset

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BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum