[SOLVED] Update to linux-firmware 20250613.12fe085f-6 breaks audio

JetGum_386 · 2025-06-23 07:37:32

I have a Lenovo Yoga Slim Aura Edition (15ILL9) with Lunar Lake CPU:

System:
  Kernel: 6.15.3-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: cryptdevice=UUID=bc98d41a-79e4-4e07-b20c-8a4c543b7f20:cryptlvm
    root=/dev/ArchinstallVg/root zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.0 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.15.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 83HM v: Yoga Slim 7 15ILL9
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Yoga Slim 7 15ILL9
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76574 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_83HM_BU_idea_FM_Yoga Slim 7
    15ILL9 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: NYCN69WW date: 04/11/2025
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 51.8 Wh (74.0%) condition: 70.0/70.0 Wh (100.0%)
    power: 51.4 W volts: 8.6 min: 7.7 model: SMP L23M4PF3 type: Li-poly
    serial: N/A status: charging cycles: 22
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core Ultra 7 258V bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Lunar Lake
    level: v3 note: check built: 2024+ process: TSMC n3b (3nm) family: 6
    model-id: 0xBD (189) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x11F
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 5 cores: 8 smt: <unsupported> cache:
    L1: 832 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB, 4x48 KiB; i-8x64 KiB L2: 14 MiB
    desc: 4x2.5 MiB, 1x4 MiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/2200 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400
    8: 400 bogomips: 52838
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Lunar Lake [Intel Arc Graphics 130V / 140V] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: xe v: kernel arch: Xe2 process: TSMC n3 (3nm) built: 2024+ ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:64a0
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b7f5
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: xe display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Tianma Micro 0x2036 serial: <filter> built: 2024
    res: mode: 2880x1800 hz: 120 scale: 165% (1.65) to: 1745x1091 dpi: 222
    gamma: 1.2 size: 330x206mm (12.99x8.11") diag: 389mm (15.3") ratio: 16:10
    modes: 2880x1800
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
    drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.1.4-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (LNL)
    device-ID: 8086:64a0 memory: 30.16 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    name: Intel Graphics (LNL) driver: mesa intel v: 25.1.4-arch1.1
    device-ID: 8086:64a0 surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo,xprop
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Lunar Lake-M HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-lnl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_lnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a828 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.15.3-arch1-1 status: kernel-api tools: N/A
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.5 status: off with: wireplumber status: active
    tools: pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active
    tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Intel BE201 320MHz driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a840 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-6:4 chip-ID: 8087:0037 class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 253.85 GiB (26.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: PM9C1a 1024GB
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 57330709 temp: 41.9 C
    scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 40 GiB size: 39.2 GiB (98.00%) used: 29.29 GiB (74.7%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: ArchinstallVg-root
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 1022 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 291.8 MiB (28.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 900 GiB size: 884.8 GiB (98.31%)
    used: 224.27 GiB (25.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 253:2
    mapped: ArchinstallVg-home
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.89 GiB used: 5.68 GiB (18.4%)
  Processes: 443 Power: uptime: 4m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
    image: 12.34 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1457 pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 1451 libs: 314
    tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 6 Compilers: clang: 20.1.6 gcc: 15.1.1
    alt: 13 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.38

The recent linux-firmware update prevents the system from recognizing the audio chip, resulting in no sound output. For now, I’ve reverted to version 20250508.788aadc8-2.

Last edited by JetGum_386 (2025-06-23 21:23:11)

seth · 2025-06-23 08:33:16

You're #3, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2247605

JetGum_386 · 2025-06-23 09:26:34

Thank you. As concerns posting

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

I'll do it when I have time to experiment again with the update. For the moment as I said I had to revert to the previous set-up as I needed audio to work today.

seth · 2025-06-23 12:28:38

You can access the journal of previous boots, eg.

sudo journalctl -b -3 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

for 3 bots ago.
No need to re-establish the broken condition to inspect them.

JetGum_386 · 2025-06-23 13:15:10

Thanks for the tip, but I have rebooted more than 3 times since I made that update (I restored a timeshift image, then did partial upgrades leaving linux-firmware at the end to make sure that package was the guilty one, and I rebooted several times in the process).

seth · 2025-06-23 13:21:34

You can access way more than the last three boots, that was just an exmple-placeholder.

thepasto · 2025-06-23 13:31:38

I'm running in a similar condition, my laptop Dell XPS 9530 has a bad audio, and mi mic is not working at all.

http://0x0.st/8lrU.txt

i think relevant part about the problem is that, from dmesg:

[21634.457584] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Requesting Firmware Load after HDA_GEN_PCM_ACT_CLOSE
[21634.457871] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Falling back to default firmware.
[21634.457876] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Unable to find firmware and tuning
[21634.457877] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Cannot Initialize Firmware. Error: -2

i don't know if it's related to firmware upgrade, but it was working before, it doesn't work with lts kernel too

[SOLVED] installing linux-firmware-cirrus solved my issue. Thanks

Last edited by thepasto (2025-06-23 14:04:42)

JetGum_386 · 2025-06-23 14:07:54

Could it be that when I used Timeshift the logs were deleted? Because I can't find trace of errors in the logs. Anyway, when I can I will re-upgrade and post the logs.

Ahlahj · 2025-06-23 15:46:11

I had the same issue on a XPS 9640. thepastos solution solved it for me as well.

thepasto wrote:

I'm running in a similar condition, my laptop Dell XPS 9530 has a bad audio, and mi mic is not working at all.
http://0x0.st/8lrU.txt
i think relevant part about the problem is that, from dmesg:
[21634.457584] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Requesting Firmware Load after HDA_GEN_PCM_ACT_CLOSE
[21634.457871] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Falling back to default firmware.
[21634.457876] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Unable to find firmware and tuning
[21634.457877] cs35l41-hda spi1-CSC3551:00-cs35l41-hda.1: Cannot Initialize Firmware. Error: -2
i don't know if it's related to firmware upgrade, but it was working before, it doesn't work with lts kernel too
[SOLVED] installing linux-firmware-cirrus solved my issue. Thanks

seth · 2025-06-23 16:06:18

JetGum_386 wrote:

Could it be that when I used Timeshift the logs were deleted?

Yes, sorry. But there're two more threads most likely/for sure down to people skipping the cirrus firmware, so there's a decent chance that's you as well.
You could inspect the current journal, see whether you're loading the cs firmware and then assess, whether you maybe dropped that with the update last time around.

JetGum_386 · 2025-06-23 21:22:41

Updated and installed linux-firmware-cirrus, sound is back. Thanks for the help.

EDIT: Still I find it weird that linux-firmware for Nvidia or AMD chips was installed automatically with the upgrade, but not the one I needed. The linux-firmware package should have installed firmware packages for all the chips (and the fact that my sound card stopped working after the upgrade means the cirrus firmware was present in linux-firmware before). Not complaining, just pointing to an inconsistency. Luckily it was easy to fix.

Last edited by JetGum_386 (2025-06-23 21:29:41)

Scimmia · 2025-06-24 00:12:26

JetGum_386, that's already been brought up and the version in testing pulls it in.

JetGum_386 · 2025-06-24 10:55:21

Scimmia wrote:

JetGum_386, that's already been brought up and the version in testing pulls it in.

Glad to hear that. Long live Arch!

cybertompo · 2025-07-04 10:32:25

I have an Asus Expertbook P5, with a Intel Core Ultra 7 258V CPU. It has two NVMe SSD slots, in one i have a Windows install, in the other an Arch install. Windows was installed first, it has Fast startup turned off (was never turned on). After installing Arch on the other SSD, everything was working fine. After some time, and some updates I ran into audio issues. My JACK headphone started to give out strange pulsating sounds, and was no other audio coming from it, the built in laptop speaker was completely mute, however the monitor i connected via HDMI could produce audio.
I went to the forums and started to troubleshoot, reinstalled SOF, installed linux-firmware-cirrus etc.
Some time I have thought that the issue is solved, and then it came back.
After some trial and error, now I have reached the conclusion, that if I boot up Windows, it ruins the audio of my Arch. I have to either shut down Windows twice, or shut down Arch twice, and it solves the issue. Very weird.
Thanks to the person, whose name I forgot who wrote that this should be tried, this was for "voodoo" reasons.

V1del · 2025-07-04 16:46:14

If you need to do that kind of vodoo, then fast boot is likely not turned off (this is not the UEFI/BIOS setting but one in Windows and it is most definitely a default there!) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … ibernation

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[SOLVED] Update to linux-firmware 20250613.12fe085f-6 breaks audio

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