commit f36938aa7440f46a0a365f1cfde5f5985af2bef3 upstream.
patch_realtek.c has historically failed to properly configure the PC
Beep Hidden Register for the ALC256 codec (among others). Depending on
your kernel version, symptoms of this misconfiguration can range from
chassis noise, picked up by a poorly-shielded PCBEEP trace, getting
amplified and played on your internal speaker and/or headphones to loud
feedback, which responds to the "Headphone Mic Boost" ALSA control,
getting played through your headphones. For details of the problem, see
the patch in this series titled "ALSA: hda/realtek - Set principled PC
Beep configuration for ALC256", which fixes the configuration.
These symptoms have been most noticed on the Dell XPS 13 9350 and 9360,
popular laptops that use the ALC256. As a result, several model-specific
fixups have been introduced to try and fix the problem, the most
egregious of which locks the "Headphone Mic Boost" control as a hack to
minimize noise from a feedback loop that shouldn't have been there in
the first place.
Now that the underlying issue has been fixed, remove all these fixups.
Remaining fixups needed by the XPS 13 are all picked up by existing pin
quirks.
This change should, for the XPS 13 9350/9360
- Significantly increase volume and audio quality on headphones
- Eliminate headphone popping on suspend/resume
- Allow "Headphone Mic Boost" to be set again, making the headphone
jack fully usable as a microphone jack too.
Fixes: 8c69729b4439 ("ALSA: hda - Fix headphone noise after Dell XPS 13 resume back from S3")
Fixes: 423cd785619a ("ALSA: hda - Fix headphone noise on Dell XPS 13 9360")
Fixes: e4c9fd10eb21 ("ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant")
Fixes: 1099f48457d0 ("ALSA: hda/realtek: Reduce the Headphone static noise on XPS 9350/9360")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b649a00edfde150cf6eebbb4390e15e0c2deb39a.1585584498.git.tommyhebb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit f128090491c3f5aacef91a863f8c52abf869c436 upstream.
This codec (among others) has a hidden set of audio routes, apparently
designed to allow PC Beep output without a mixer widget on the output
path, which are controlled by an undocumented Realtek vendor register.
The default configuration of these routes means that certain inputs
aren't accessible, necessitating driver control of the register.
However, Realtek has provided no documentation of the register, instead
opting to fix issues by providing magic numbers, most of which have been
at least somewhat erroneous. These magic numbers then get copied by
others into model-specific fixups, leading to a fragmented and buggy set
of configurations.
To get out of this situation, I've reverse engineered the register by
flipping bits and observing how the codec's behavior changes. This
commit documents my findings. It does not change any code.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bd69dfdeaf40ff31c4b7b797c829bb320031739c.1585584498.git.tommyhebb@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thomas Hebb