Installing Ubuntu 22.04 or Linux Mint on an HP Chromebook G5 EE works fine, except for the audio hanging and producing a loud beep until pulseaudio is restarted. The solution :

On 12/18/22 7:02 AM, Mark Hills wrote:
HP Chromebook (11a, G5 “Setzer”) uses snd_soc_sst_cht_bsw_rt5645 module
and presents a device “rt5650”.

can you share the result of ‘aplay -l’, wondering which platform driver you are using.
Audio works briefly, until after about 30 seconds it’s interrupted by a
square wave or short buffer cycling.

If this is with the SOF driver, there’s a known issue and a known workaround, please add this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd_sof sof_debug=1
— Read on www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg151538.html

2 Responses to “Workaround/solution for Audio crash/hang loud beep after a certain period – rt5650 on HP Chromebook G5”

1. John Doe says:

   2024-11-05 at 16:45

   Firefox 132.0 GNU/Linux x64
   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

   Thanks so much for this !!!!!

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2. John Doe says:

   2024-11-05 at 17:33

   Firefox 132.0 GNU/Linux x64
   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

   I have installed PopOS! on a Chromebook Asus C301 and was getting the exact same problem. Utterly frustrating considering that everything else worked just fine,

   Thanks to you now the sound works finally as it should. Thank you so much.

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