Comment # 7 on bug 1224457 from Takashi Iwai

The behavior difference can come from a subtle thing like BIOS, so no wonder.

If it were a regression, you can try the old kernels.  e.g. there are tons of
old kernels in my OBS projects (in "backport" repo), e.g. for 5.14,
  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tiwai:/kernel:/5.14/backport/

and you can install kernel-default.rpm from there with zypper install (or rpm
-i) with --oldpackage option.  Once after testing, uninstall that kernel with
"zypper rm kernel-default-x.y" with the exact package version to uninstall,
too.

In that way, you can test old kernels until certain time.

If all those don't work, you can try with the recent kernel (e.g. Leap 5.16)
probing forcibly the target codec.  Pass "snd_hda_intel.probe_mask=,0x101" boot
option and see whether it changes the situation.  (The comma before 0x101 is no
typo, it's intentional.)
If this doesn't work, try with 0x102, 0x104, 0x108, 0x110, until 0x180.