Consider adding support for sof-firmware via mhwd / MSM

I have a HD installed running XFCE and tried the Live-ISO to test something and then i realized there is no sound in live-session. So i looked at my installed Manjaro XFCE that has a working sound …

I think the sound driver is missing and should be added to the *.iso

I think it’s the package sof-firmware?!

Here the information of inxi -F

Generated on 2021-12-27 21:14:1640636081

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System:
  Kernel: 5.10.84-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81RS v: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: BYCN39WW date: 05/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 65.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 65.3/62.0 Wh (105.3%) volts: 17.2 min: 15.4
    model: LGC L19L4PD2 status: Full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache:
    L1: 320 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1125 high: 1201 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 1201 2: 1200 3: 1103 4: 1100
    5: 1100 6: 1101 7: 1100 8: 1100 bogomips: 23968
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 495.44
    bus-ID: 2b:00.0
  Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-5:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau
    resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.84-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-1.4:3
  IF: enp0s13f0u1u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: pan1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:5
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.08 TiB used: 322.15 GiB (15.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA1T0TCK size: 953.87 GiB temp: 38.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARX-00N0YB0 size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 2.0 size: 14.54 GiB
  ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra size: 233.25 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 57.9 GiB used: 35.39 GiB (61.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 259.5 MiB used: 114.1 MiB (44.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 275 Uptime: 13m Memory: 15.2 GiB used: 1.91 GiB (12.6%) Init: systemd Compilers:
  gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1733 Client: Unknown Client: wrapper-2.0 inxi: 3.3.11

If i remember correct i had this sound problem after my HD-install some time ago. Would be useful if that would be fixed.

you may want to install the sof-firmware package and reboot the PC.

Package sof-firmware is only required for Intel systems (kabylake and later) and is not needed for other systems

So I would suggest Manjaro team should consider adding support for sof-firmware drivers using mhwd and Manjaro Settings Manager > Hardware Configuration

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I think that might change in the future.

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Current AMD systems do not need additional packages installed. AMD Raven and Renoir devices already have drivers (acp3x) supplied by the kernel/ALSA
(and seem to be working out better than Intel Sound Open Firmware so far :crossed_fingers:)

If Ryzen systems need sof-firmware or similar additional packages in future, that could also be supported via mhwd / Manjaro Settings Manager

It will now be installed by default:

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Thank you, so that issue has been fixed :slight_smile:

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