Internal speaker is exteremly distorted on MARASOV/ASUS Chromebook Plus CX34

[jort93]

Describe the bug
The internal speaker has very distorted audio(completely unusable). #136 only provided a partial fix, fixing the headphone jack, the speaker is still broken.

Boardname
MARASOV

Logs
debug-logs-Marasov-2024-10-08_23h50m.tar.gz

[WeirdTreeThing]

Can you record what it sounds like?

[Yippy284]

Can you record what it sounds like?

I have the same Chromebook and the audio from the speakers sounds like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bU_UF6Qy83NznR5K_PjlWeTW6ZBSOm_E/view?usp=sharing

I found the link on this unresolved thread about a similar issue on a different board:
https://forum.chrultrabook.com/t/audio-issues-running-manjaro-with-pulseaudio-on-omnigul/1744

[jort93]

Sorry i didn't get back earlier, but the audio sounds like the recording Yippy send.
I don't use Manjaro, I use endeavouros(which is arch based too), sounds like a similar issue. Down to the audible pop after playback that is mentioned there, which i have too sometimes(but i wasn't sure if that was the same issue).

[WeirdTreeThing]

I'm guessing this is due to the mixer settings for the speaker amps being incorrectly configured, I'll see if I can find out what might be wrong.

[WeirdTreeThing]

So actually, this device uses a "dumb" speaker amp with no controls other than on/off, so there is nothing to configure incorrectly. My next guess is the kernel driver being broken in some way.

[potential1energy]

Same issue here, Laptop speakers are strangely quiet while also very loud (ASUS Chromebook plus CX34)

[alinmear]

Same here with Asus chromebook plus cx34 / MARASOV. Latest Fedora 41 Workstation release (6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64)

I get lots of errors like this:

[   46.735546] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/20): -22
[   46.735552] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: HW params ipc failed for stream 1
[   46.735554] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_component_hw_params on 0000:00:1f.3: -22
[   46.736283] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/20): -22
[   46.736287] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: HW params ipc failed for stream 1
[   46.736289] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_component_hw_params on 0000:00:1f.3: -22
[   46.737015] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/20): -22
[   46.737017] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: HW params ipc failed for stream 1
[   46.737019] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_component_hw_params on 0000:00:1f.3: -22
[   46.737896] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/20): -22
[   46.737900] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: HW params ipc failed for stream 1
[   46.737901] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_component_hw_params on 0000:00:1f.3: -22