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XiNiHa

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Registered: 2023-02-09

Posts: 2

No Sound from Laptop Built-in Speakers

I just installed Arch and have no sound from the laptop's built-in speakers.
I have tested that the audio itself works with my Samsung USB-C earbuds.

The audio stack I'm currently using is PipeWire. These are the packages I've installed (pacman -Q | grep pipewire).

pipewire 1:0.3.65-6
pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.65-6
pipewire-audio 1:0.3.65-6
pipewire-jack 1:0.3.65-6
pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.65-6

At first, I had no output device shown in pavuctl at all. However adding options snd_hda_intel dmic_detect=0 on /etc/modprobe.d/disable-dmic.conf made the sound card correctly detected in pavuctl. But that still didn't make any sound from the speakers, even though the meters on pavuctl are correctly moving as I play sound.

Here's my output of lspci -v, only the related part is taken.

00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 51ca (rev 01)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Sound
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c886
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 181, IOMMU group 15
	Memory at 603e1d0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Memory at 603e000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl

I'm not sure if these are enough for troubleshooting ?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,919

Re: No Sound from Laptop Built-in Speakers

Remove the disable-dmic.conf and install sof-firmware instead and reboot.

XiNiHa

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Registered: 2023-02-09

Posts: 2

Re: No Sound from Laptop Built-in Speakers

Even though many things have changed (lot more output devices available for HDMI / DisplayPort, built-in mic working, etc) the speaker sound is still not available.