Bug 218300

Summary: Asus ROG String G18 - ALC924: sound only from headphones, no sound from speakers
Product: Drivers Reporter: fordfrog
Component: Sound(ALSA)Assignee: Jaroslav Kysela (perex)
Status: RESOLVED IMPLEMENTED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 6.6.8-gentoo Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description fordfrog 2023-12-21 17:47:26 UTC 
the sound through headphones works fine but there is no sound from the speakers. audio output through the headphones works fine (volume, stereo etc.). i didn't check the mic functionality.


# lspci -v -s 0000:00:1f.3 -n
0000:00:1f.3 0403: 8086:7a50 (rev 11) (prog-if 80)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Sound
	Subsystem: 1043:1ccf
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 211, IOMMU group 14
	Memory at 625f230000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Memory at 625f000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
	Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel


# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 1: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 3: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 4: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 4: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 4: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 4: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Comment 1 fordfrog 2024-10-29 09:36:11 UTC 
just attempted again to configure the sound card in the current kernel (6.11.5) and the sound now works even from the speakers. the missing configuration in my case was CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI_INSTANTIATE=y.