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bemerged

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Registered: 2020-09-29

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[SOLVED] Audio device not detected

Hello there,

I spent days finding a solution for my problem but it's getting worse.

I installed Arch and KDE. After a freshinstall, I can't see any audio devices. So I worked with the pulseaudio troubleshooting wiki articles and tried many things with alsamixer. After some research I found the kernel parameter "snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0" and tried it out. Since then my speakers work, but my built-in microphone doesn't (I mean better than nothing). When I plug in my Logitech G935 Headset (USB wireless) it is only recognized without the given kernel parameter. As I couldn't find any useful additional information, I hope you guys can help me.

dmesg output (guess the relevant part)

[   12.383741] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 5
[   12.383743] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: using HDA machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic now
[   12.383746] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: DMICs detected in NHLT tables: 2
[   12.383881] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed with error -2
[   12.383883] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: request firmware intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed err: -2
[   12.383884] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to load DSP firmware -2
[   12.384235] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: sof_probe_work failed err: -2

Last edited by bemerged (2020-09-29 13:45:37)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,627

Re: [SOLVED] Audio device not detected

Remove the kernel parameter and follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … A_Firmware instead.

However in any case it's borderline impossible that that specific kernel parameter and your USB headset "not being recognized" are related. What's more likely to happen is that you don't look at the correct spots. so if this isn't completely fixed by installing the mentioned packages, post

aplay -lL
arecord -l

bemerged

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Registered: 2020-09-29

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Audio device not detected

You are a god. Thank you so much. Installing the firmware packages fixed everything for me. My whole soundcard gets detected now (even HDMI sound works now) and my microphone is also working. When I plugin my headset it works without any delay. Thank you so much that cost me hours of trying. I even read the article you posted, but I somehow skipped this section.

PS: With the given kernel parameter enabled, my headset was at least not automaticly recognized by kmix. I also couldn't find it in the alsamixer device list. But anyways its fixed now ))))