One more data point: On a failure, dmesg shows:
0.741723] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: Cannot probe codecs, giving up (on a fail) But on an older working kernel, there is no such message, but dmesg includes:- ========================================================== 5.155954] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915]) [ 5.159403] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000 [ 5.172208] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [ 5.178871] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card1/input15 [ 5.179641] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card1/input16 [ 5.181417] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/car ( kernel 6.10.3-amd64) ====================================================