6.18 stability issues

[mark4]

I rebuilt my kernel again, i have not observed any system hangs (yet) but still no audio through speakers. I followed your write-up and went over everything in 6.18.5. I was going to do it under 5.15 but that would not help resolve my stability issues here which is my primary focus. If we can get audio working that would be awesome but this thread was more about stability.

I might not see any stability issues for a few days but I had one earlier on 6.18 so it could happen again.

If you run alsamixer, what doest it show ?

The ALC1220 is present, with everything unmuted per default except Headphone and S/PDIF. Unmuting both of those gives me no audio through the speakers.

[dmpogo]

I rebuilt my kernel again, i have not observed any system hangs (yet) but still no audio through speakers. I followed your write-up and went over everything in 6.18.5. I was going to do it under 5.15 but that would not help resolve my stability issues here which is my primary focus. If we can get audio working that would be awesome but this thread was more about stability.

I might not see any stability issues for a few days but I had one earlier on 6.18 so it could happen again.

If you run alsamixer, what doest it show ?

The ALC1220 is present, with everything unmuted per default except Headphone and S/PDIF. Unmuting both of those gives me no audio through the speakers.

Ok, so devices are detected. In my case I was not able to make audio to work with pipewire (also have alsamixer showing the devices, but no sound under kde). I did not solve it, I just swotched back to pulseaudio and it worked

[mark4]

If you run alsamixer, what doest it show ?

The ALC1220 is present, with everything unmuted per default except Headphone and S/PDIF. Unmuting both of those gives me no audio through the speakers.

Ok, so devices are detected. In my case I was not able to make audio to work with pipewire (also have alsamixer showing the devices, but no sound under kde). I did not solve it, I just swotched back to pulseaudio and it worked

I switched to pipewire because pa was not working either.

[saboya]

I had one issue with 6.18: My desktop just wouldn't shut down. I'd tell it to poweroff, it would even print the message that it was shutting down, but it just never did.

I think it's fixed with the current version (6.18.5), but it was broken for a while.

[pietinger]

The ALC1220 is present, with everything unmuted per default except Headphone and S/PDIF. Unmuting both of those gives me no audio through the speakers.

Before 3 years I also thought I dont need SPDIF ... I was wrong ... it was necessary to unmute these also.

Sound with Linux is sometimes very strange ... the craziest problem I had (just 3 weeks ago) was: After a battery change in the notebook it was necessary to plug in the headphones to get the speakers working again ->
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8 ... ml#8876455

[mark4]

I had one issue with 6.18: My desktop just wouldn't shut down. I'd tell it to poweroff, it would even print the message that it was shutting down, but it just never did.

I think it's fixed with the current version (6.18.5), but it was broken for a while.

My audio has not worked for MONTHS, long before 6.18 became a thing. With 6.18 I did see it not powering down too. I run SIGNIFICANTLY hotter under 6.18 at idle. I have observed HARD crashes where nothing responds except the pointer but I cant do anything except move it. Other times everything just locks up HARD. This is very difficult to pinpoint because it is very intermittent.

Other than audio not working none of this happens with 5.15/

[pietinger]

This is only a shot in the dark ... but maybe you are interested in this patch from 6.18.6 ->
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... f12550c220

[mark4]

This is only a shot in the dark ... but maybe you are interested in this patch from 6.18.6 ->
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... f12550c220

I wont manually patch even with official patches, my know how in these matters is very limited but if there is a potential fix in the next release I can wait :)

[dmpogo]

This is only a shot in the dark ... but maybe you are interested in this patch from 6.18.6 ->
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... f12550c220

I wont manually patch even with official patches, my know how in these matters is very limited but if there is a potential fix in the next release I can wait

This patch as I see is in just kernel config. You can achieve the same effect, by careful kernel configuration, it seems

[mark4]

This is only a shot in the dark ... but maybe you are interested in this patch from 6.18.6 ->
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... f12550c220

I wont manually patch even with official patches, my know how in these matters is very limited but if there is a potential fix in the next release I can wait :)

This patch as I see is in just kernel config. You can achieve the same effect, by careful kernel configuration, it seems

Been fighitng this for months and an totally at a loss. I read that page and do not understand what I need to add or what I need to remove to make this work. I cannot even see under ...

Device Drivers > Sound card support > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture > HD-Audio > Realtek HD-Audio codec supprt

which codec I am supposed to select. My ALC1220 is not listed at all

I also do not find anything in menuconfig related to setting or enabling SND_INTEL_DSP_DRIVER_LEGACY

I am now running 6.18.6 and that patch must not have been applied to it because audio is still fubar


< Edit >

Just rebuilt my kernel with two changes. 1: I enabled soundwire built in and 2: I removed every single codec from the above linked realtek menu. Sound now works but audio is very low BUT IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!

[villastraylight]

I, too have experienced stability issues with 6.18.5. Reverted to 6.17.0. Might be issues with nvidia-drivers 590.x, too, as I upgraded to 580 at the same time. Will test 580 with 6.18.

[saboya]

PSA: Nvidia driver issues when rebooting / shutting down could be related to this:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/969413