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Loud beep sound in Acer c731 Chromebook (RELM) while playing video: sof-audio-acpi-intel-byt 808622A8:00: error

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I was watching a video online, and suddenly my computer started playing a high frequency noise. The video did not pause, but the sound of the video was not audible at all. The sound stopped a while after closing the lid.

This issue occurs in YouTube videos running in Firefox web browser as well as in the FreeTube app.

I ran journalctl -r and saw the error message

sof-audio-acpi-intel-byt 808622A8:00: error: reply expected 12 got 0 bytes

The computer is an Acer 11 N7 C731 Chromebook (codename RELM) natively running Ubuntu MATE 22.04. It has an Intel Celeron N3060 processor.

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I found a workaround here which involves using the SST driver instead the SOF driver.

The solution is to add the following line to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=2

Reboot.

After this, the bug disappeared completely.

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