Hello,
A small update on the matter, the bisected commit 73d862c55 `ALSA: hda/realtek: the bass speaker can't output sound on Yoga 9i` is not the one that introduced the issue. I will keep the lengthy bisection ongoing till I can find it. It will take at least few days as I do not have a way yet to trigger the freeze at will. But playing a video through MPV with the sound output through a jack cable is my only "best" method so far.
I will be bisecting with Arch's config file, but with modules stripped through `make LSMOD=modprobed.db localmodconfig` to win some build time and restrict the possibilities, please find the config attached as `config.arch.stripped` and the module database as `modprobed-db`. If you would like me to use another base `.config` file, please send it to me.
The tests I did again so far with the `config.arch.stripped`: - v5.12.10 and could reproduce the freeze. Both with RAM at its original 3400Mhz CL15 speed and at a looser 2666Mhz CL20 speed: RAM is therefore likely not the culprit. So I reverted back to 3400Mhz CL15. On whom I ran memtest86+ 4 passes in the past without reported errors. - v5.12.8 and could reproduce the freeze again, which makes the commit 73d862c55 not guilty.
I am testing v5.12.6 right now, and I will be making bigger steps back in time till I find a version on which I cannot reproduce the freeze in a reasonable time: I will give it two days of normal use to deem it good.
I think this issue is not related to my hardware as I own a custom v5.12.8 version that has not frozen in the past weeks of use (I attached it in one previous message as `config.works`). Its vanilla counterpart (I ran `make xconfig` on `config.works` to remove the spurious additions), attached to this mail as `config.works.vanilla` seems to workaround the issue in v5.12.10 as I couldn't make it freeze with the same procedure under the same time constraint, although I must keep running it for longer to really be sure.
Please feel free to give your thoughts and direct my research, I will keep updating this thread with my progress if no objection is expressed.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Kind regards,
Adel K.S.