Comment 41 for bug 1851518

I have the 13 inch Ion with the intel built in gpu. I am also running standard Ubuntu and not Xbuntu. I have never had the system lock up or freeze on any occasion and I use it for at least 10 hours a day. My keyboard lights have also always worked perfectly from the start. In fact, the computer is an almost perfect machine for Linux and my only issues have been the sound and the fingerprint reader (which is not recognized by Linux, but I don't actually care about anyway).

Its frustrating I can't get the headphone modification to stick as a fix. I have tried everything I can think of... including adding it as a systemd daemon, adding it as an Alsa patch, adding as a hacky @reboot cron job, and changing the "options snd-hda-intel" settings in alsa-base.conf. In all cases it feels like the verb modification is lost when Alsa goes into power save mode for any reason (music source stops or sound source changes etc.). I have even tried to disable alsa power save both in alsa-base.conf and the individual files in "/sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/". No luck in either case.....

If anyone is tracking, this is also a duplicate of the bug "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1886493" where another user reported the exact same issue with the new Ions (I assume the new Samsung Galaxy Book Flex models have the same issue, but don't have one to confirm)... Just fyi...