6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Adrien Vergé adrienverge@gmail.com
commit c6557ccf8094ce2e1142c6e49cd47f5d5e2933a8 upstream.
This fixes a regression introduced a few weeks ago in stable kernels 6.12.14 and 6.13.3. The internal microphone on ASUS Vivobook N705UD / X705UD laptops is broken: the microphone appears in userspace (e.g. Gnome settings) but no sound is detected. I bisected it to commit 3b4309546b48 ("ALSA: hda: Fix headset detection failure due to unstable sort").
I figured out the cause: 1. The initial pins enabled for the ALC256 driver are: cfg->inputs == { { pin=0x19, type=AUTO_PIN_MIC, is_headset_mic=1, is_headphone_mic=0, has_boost_on_pin=1 }, { pin=0x1a, type=AUTO_PIN_MIC, is_headset_mic=0, is_headphone_mic=0, has_boost_on_pin=1 } } 2. Since 2017 and commits c1732ede5e8 ("ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix headset and mic on several ASUS laptops with ALC256") and 28e8af8a163 ("ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mic and headset jack sense on ASUS X705UD"), the quirk ALC256_FIXUP_ASUS_MIC is also applied to ASUS X705UD / N705UD laptops. This added another internal microphone on pin 0x13: cfg->inputs == { { pin=0x13, type=AUTO_PIN_MIC, is_headset_mic=0, is_headphone_mic=0, has_boost_on_pin=1 }, { pin=0x19, type=AUTO_PIN_MIC, is_headset_mic=1, is_headphone_mic=0, has_boost_on_pin=1 }, { pin=0x1a, type=AUTO_PIN_MIC, is_headset_mic=0, is_headphone_mic=0, has_boost_on_pin=1 } } I don't know what this pin 0x13 corresponds to. To the best of my knowledge, these laptops have only one internal microphone. 3. Before 2025 and commit 3b4309546b48 ("ALSA: hda: Fix headset detection failure due to unstable sort"), the sort function would let the microphone of pin 0x1a (the working one) *before* the microphone of pin 0x13 (the phantom one). 4. After this commit 3b4309546b48, the fixed sort function puts the working microphone (pin 0x1a) *after* the phantom one (pin 0x13). As a result, no sound is detected anymore.
It looks like the quirk ALC256_FIXUP_ASUS_MIC is not needed anymore for ASUS Vivobook X705UD / N705UD laptops. Without it, everything works fine: - the internal microphone is detected and records actual sound, - plugging in a jack headset is detected and can record actual sound with it, - unplugging the jack headset makes the system go back to internal microphone and can record actual sound.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu visitorckw@gmail.com Cc: Chris Chiu chris.chiu@canonical.com Fixes: 3b4309546b48 ("ALSA: hda: Fix headset detection failure due to unstable sort") Tested-by: Adrien Vergé adrienverge@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Adrien Vergé adrienverge@gmail.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250226135515.24219-1-adrienverge@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c @@ -10598,7 +10598,6 @@ static const struct hda_quirk alc269_fix SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x19ce, "ASUS B9450FA", ALC294_FIXUP_ASUS_HPE), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x19e1, "ASUS UX581LV", ALC295_FIXUP_ASUS_MIC_NO_PRESENCE), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x1a13, "Asus G73Jw", ALC269_FIXUP_ASUS_G73JW), - SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x1a30, "ASUS X705UD", ALC256_FIXUP_ASUS_MIC), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x1a63, "ASUS UX3405MA", ALC245_FIXUP_CS35L41_SPI_2), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x1a83, "ASUS UM5302LA", ALC294_FIXUP_CS35L41_I2C_2), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1043, 0x1a8f, "ASUS UX582ZS", ALC245_FIXUP_CS35L41_SPI_2),