@John Hoff

> Mike, depending on your answers to my many questions from today, if
the only way we know to proceed is to build and test a patch, could you
help with building the patch (or at least the basic framework of the
patch so I can just plug in the CORB values)?

Absolutely. I'll write a patch and test it on my machine, after which
I'll share it with you. In the mean time you could try Early Patching.
Your Early Patching file will have an enormous [verb] section which will
look like this

[verb]
0x1a 0x707 0xc5
.
.
.

Each line contains three space-separated hex values: Node ID, Verb ID,
and Payload. You will have one line for each verb in the CORB dump, so
that could be 1000s of lines.

I think hda-verb < Early Patching < kernel patch, in the sense that a
kernel patch has the highest-probability of success, hda-verb has the
lowest, and Early Patching is somewhere in between. This is because I
think that some codec values are read-write at initialization time but
then become read-only at runtime (only Realtek, the ALC298 manufacturer,
knows for sure*). A kernel patch allows us to write values at codec
initialization time, whereas hda-verb is at runtime, and Early Patching
is somewhere in between.

*Perhaps we can know: I found a datasheet for the ALC269 [1]. I think
the ALC269 is very similar to the ALC298 codec in our laptops. Among
other things, the datasheet describes verb semantics. It's a nice
supplement to the Intel HDA spec. I don't recall seeing anything about
initialization-time vs runtime, but perhaps I have not read it closely
enough - the datasheet is only somewhat less dense and technical than
the Intel HDA spec so it's not an easy read! :)

[1] https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/datasheets/alc269.pdf

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Title:
  [950SBE/951SBE, Realtek ALC298, Speaker, Internal] No sound on
  internal speakers, very very quiet on headphones

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I've been googling this issue for 10's of hours and tried many things.

  Relase of Ubuntu: 19.10

  Expected outcome: Music plays on the internal speakers and headphones.

  Actual outcome: I can barely hear audio using headphones with volume
  turned up to 150%.  Absolutely nothing comes out of the speakers. (The
  speakers sound great under Windows 10.)

  Complete alsa-info output is attached, but here are some snippets:

  !!DMI Information
  !!---------------

  Manufacturer:      SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  Product Name:      950SBE/951SBE
  Product Version:   P06RES
  Firmware Version:  P06RES.075.190529.SP
  Board Vendor:      SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  Board Name:        NP950SBE-K01US

  
  !!Kernel Information
  !!------------------

  Kernel release:    5.3.0-19-generic
  Operating System:  GNU/Linux
  Architecture:      x86_64
  Processor:         x86_64
  SMP Enabled:       Yes


  !!ALSA Version
  !!------------

  Driver version:     k5.3.0-19-generic
  Library version:    1.1.9
  Utilities version:  1.1.9

  
  !!Loaded ALSA modules
  !!-------------------

  snd_hda_intel

  
  !!Sound Servers on this system
  !!----------------------------

  Pulseaudio:
        Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
        Running - Yes

  
  !!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
  !!-----------------------------

   0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                        HDA Intel PCH at 0x604b118000 irq 177

  
  !!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
  !!--------------------------------------

  00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP
  High Definition Audio Controller (rev 11)

  
  !!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's
  !!-------------------------------------------------------

  00:1f.3 0401: 8086:9dc8 (rev 11)
          DeviceName: Onboard - Sound

  
  !!HDA-Intel Codec information
  !!---------------------------
  --startcollapse--

  Codec: Realtek ALC298
  Address: 0
  AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 1)
  Vendor Id: 0x10ec0298
  Subsystem Id: 0x144dc812
  Revision Id: 0x100103
  No Modem Function Group found
  Default PCM:
      rates [0x60]: 44100 48000
      bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
      formats [0x1]: PCM
  Default Amp-In caps: N/A
  Default Amp-Out caps: N/A
  State of AFG node 0x01:
    Power states:  D0 D1 D2 D3 D3cold CLKSTOP EPSS
    Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
  GPIO: io=8, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=1, wake=0
    IO[0]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[1]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[2]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[3]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[4]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[5]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[6]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
    IO[7]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
  Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x41d: Stereo Amp-Out
    Control: name="Headphone Playback Volume", index=0, device=0
      ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=Out, idx=0, ofs=0
    Device: name="ALC298 Analog", type="Audio", device=0
    Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x7f, nsteps=0x7f, stepsize=0x01, mute=0
    Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
    Converter: stream=1, channel=0
    PCM:
      rates [0x60]: 44100 48000
      bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
      formats [0x1]: PCM
    Power states:  D0 D1 D2 D3 EPSS
    Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
  Node 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x41d: Stereo Amp-Out
    Control: name="Speaker Playback Volume", index=0, device=0
      ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=Out, idx=0, ofs=0
    Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x7f, nsteps=0x7f, stepsize=0x01, mute=0
    Amp-Out vals:  [0x7f 0x7f]
    Converter: stream=1, channel=0

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  martin     1383 F.... pulseaudio
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Nov  6 06:20:08 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-03 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: alsa-driver
  Symptom: audio
  Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:PCH failed
  Symptom_Card: Built-in Audio - HDA Intel PCH
  Symptom_DevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  martin     1383 F.... pulseaudio
  Symptom_Jack: Speaker, Internal
  Symptom_Type: No sound at all
  Title: [950SBE/951SBE, Realtek ALC298, Speaker, Internal] No sound at all
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/29/2019
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: P06RES.075.190529.SP
  dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: NP950SBE-K01US
  dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  dmi.board.version: SGL9849A0Q-C01-G003-S0001+10.0.17763
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 31
  dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP06RES.075.190529.SP:bd05/29/2019:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pn950SBE/951SBE:pvrP06RES:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnNP950SBE-K01US:rvrSGL9849A0Q-C01-G003-S0001+10.0.17763:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct31:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.family: Notebook 9 Series
  dmi.product.name: 950SBE/951SBE
  dmi.product.sku: SCAI-A5A5-A5A5-A5A5-PRES
  dmi.product.version: P06RES
  dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  mtime.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.alsa-base.conf: 2019-11-05T23:13:55.854413

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