They were working before, I’m quite sure, but a few days ago the soundcard has also ceased to function for 5.7.17. I’m not completely sure what kind of information I should include for a resolution.
pulseaudio is 13.99.1 as this thread recommended; I also followed these instructions, but they broke after the latest update and I haven’t been able to get them working since. my ALSA dump is here, and inxi -Fxz returns
Your ALSA data has a list of !!All Loaded Modules
but that list is not showing any ‘sof’ modules from sof-firmware
Manjaro now has sof-firmware v1.5.1 mentioned in the blogpost.
I do not expect support for your hardware has been merged to this package yet, but it could start working soon in a future update, so I suggest trying to keep it installed
The previous discussion on archived Manjaro forum mentioned using a modprobe option to force loading of sof-hda-dsp driver - options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=3
but you have no modprobe options listed in ALSA data
(There is the other modprobe option to use the legacy snd_hda_intel driver - options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1 but without the internal microphone)
Thanks for the links. I’m fairly sure I have sof-firmware 1.5.1 installed on the system. The modprobe options do not work for me, and the two commenters in the PR seem equally confused. I’m trying to see if I can set up bluetooth headphones, but that does require downgrading pulseaudio back to 13 for pulseaudio-bluetooth, and it’s too late for me to attempt this right now.
Small update. Bluetooth headphones work, but they hurt my ears so I would still like to get this working. No dice with headset, and trying to use an USB-C headphone jack with in-built audio card has it show up in alsamixer, but navigating to it quits back to terminal with message “cannot load mixer controls: broken pipe”. Speaker-test does not output any sound. All outputs are unmuted in alsamixer. The audio card is detected with aplay -l. The onboard audio chip is ALC711-CG and the jack audio chip is ALC4042.
Any further updates? Same laptop and same problem. Installed yesterday and have not been able to get audio to work yet. I have tried both of the grub modifications snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0
and snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1
and have also tried kernels 5.4.64-1, 5.8.6-1, and 5.9 experimental. sof-firmware drivers also installed to no effect. I am pretty new to linux so unfortunately it feels like I’m taking a bit of a shotgun approach here.
I did in fact fix this with the help of the blog, but only on 5.8; I’m experiencing all-round worse performance on 5.9 (battery life, core temp, lack of sound), not sure if I forgot to break it in somehow. Apparently the latest version of pulseaudio doesn’t work as of now, but I haven’t downgraded yet. Still, with 5.8 reaching EOL status, an official fix would be nice.