Hello
I’m new to linux, specifically xfce and I’ve been using it just fine for the past few months now but recently my audio cut out and won’t come back after messing with updating some things. Now my audio is completely gone even after reset and removing and reinstalling pulse audio. Any help is greatly appreciated.
[ 3.418781] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[ 3.418787] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SST driver
[ 3.821560] snd_soc_skl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[ 3.821565] snd_soc_skl 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SST driver
[ 3.970154] snd_soc_skl 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
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And to be clear, this still happens when I plug in headphones
dmesg data would normally show detected audio connections
but data is only showing internal digital microphone is detected
0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SST driver
Skylake systems have recently had support added for internal digital microphone
but it requires the development version of PulseAudio v13.99 pulseaudio-git installed from AUR
P.S.: I had first to remove libao, fluidsynth, lib32-fluidsynth and manjaro-pulse - after that I could install pulseaudio-git - having installed pulseaudio-git I added libao, fluidsynth, lib32-fluidsynth and manjaro-pulse
The problem is that the internal digital microphone array (Intel SST) was added to laptops for Cortana support and were not supported on Linux. sof-firmware support was added to Linux kernel earlier this year, but most laptops did not have any working audio. The workaround for most users was to disable the digital microphone to continue using the rest of the the audio system until the bugs were patched
Your system can detect the digital microphone Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SST driver
but it cannot load the driver correctly, so all the onboard audio fails to be initialised
to get a working system you need the latest version of PulseAudio that has the patches for sof-firmware
A new version of PulseAudio (v13.99) was included in [Testing Update] 2020-10-16 so installing pulseaudio-git from AUR is no longer needed
You can either switch to testing branch now to get packages needed for working audio Switching Branches - Manjaro Wiki
or else wait for a week or two for new packages to be released in a stable update