It turned out that VIA codecs also mute the sound in the lowest mixer level. Turn on the dac_min_mute flag to indicate the mute-as-minimum in TLV like already done in Conexant and IDT codecs. BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210559 Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c index 0ab40a8a68fb..834367dd54e1 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static struct via_spec *via_new_spec(struct hda_codec *codec) spec->codec_type = VT1708S; spec->gen.indep_hp = 1; spec->gen.keep_eapd_on = 1; + spec->gen.dac_min_mute = 1; spec->gen.pcm_playback_hook = via_playback_pcm_hook; spec->gen.add_stereo_mix_input = HDA_HINT_STEREO_MIX_AUTO; codec->power_save_node = 1; -- 2.26.2