Re: Quiet crackling noise at boot and after stopping music

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:15:08 +0200,
Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
> Dear Linux folks,
> 
> 
> I believe the Realtek refactoring caused a regression on my Intel Kaby
> Lake laptop Dell XPS 13 9360. There is quiet crackling noise during
> boot, when GDM is started, and also after playing music is
> stopped. It’s reproducible with 6.16.0-04055-g14bed9bc81ba, that
> contains the sound subsystem pull request.
> 
> 177bf8620cf4 Merge tag 'sound-6.17-rc1' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound
> 
> I uploaded the run of alsa-info [1]. I try to verify with plain 6.16 later.

It's likely because of the missing CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* selections.
Please set CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ALC269=m and
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI_INTEL=m if not done yet.

Those were already set to default=y in the later PR for avoiding such
a pitfall.


HTH,

Takashi

> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> [1]: https://alsa-project.org/db/?f=6d2c66f2374b4ee6eb406a1d2cce60d1f17bed33