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SurPaul

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Registered: 2021-09-01

Posts: 2

No sound from the speakers of Acer Swift 5 laptop

Hello! I have no sound from the laptop speakers, only from the headphones and via HDMI. I've tried running both PulseAudio and Pipewire. PulseAudio is currently running with default settings. alsa-firmware sof-firmware alsa-ucm-conf packages installed.

The kernel parameter snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect = 0 helped me before, then I read somewhere that this parameter needs to be replaced with the newer snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver = 1. So it worked for a while.

Right now I tried these parameters but none of it worked:

snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect = 0
snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver = 1
snd_intel_dspcfg.dsp_driver = 1
snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver = 3
snd_intel_dspcfg.dsp_driver = 3

If I specify 3 and not 1 for the snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver parameter, the device names change, and sound disappears even over HDMI:

I was running LiveUSB latest version of Fedora, Ubuntu 21.04, 20.04, 16.04. Only in 16.04 does the sound from laptop speakers work with standard settings. I think the sound disappeared after upgrading to one of last year's kernel versions. In Windows 10, everything is fine with sound too.

Neofetch:

# pa-info
https://gist.github.com/SurPaul/d90ab75 … 27f76f7048

$ pactl info and $ pactl list
https://gist.github.com/SurPaul/a437365 … bd4d568f32

$ lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
https://gist.github.com/SurPaul/c56b5a4 … eae50aa743

All previous attempts to find help from the community:

25.11.20 (russian)
https://t.me/grouplinux/1186533
https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/desktop/16020794

11.12.20 (russian)
https://t.me/grouplinux/1199386

01.09.21 (english)
https://matrix.to/#/!kySKEYzDwVhedDCSoX … ia=kde.org (PipeWire room)
https://matrix.to/#/!GtIfdsfQtQIgbQSxwJ … ia=kde.org (Arch Linux room)

Last edited by SurPaul (2021-09-01 13:07:44)

SurPaul

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Registered: 2021-09-01

Posts: 2

Re: No sound from the speakers of Acer Swift 5 laptop

I have now tried consistently running Fedora versions 30-34. In one of these versions, the device name has changed, as in the screenshots above. I believe it is due to the default using a different driver. But the sound still worked. It only stopped working on Fedora 34, which also switched to PipeWire (I don't think that's the reason).

Fedora 33: 5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64
Fedora 34: 5.11.12-300.fc34.x86_64

Output from pa-info on Fedora 33 and pw-cli info all on Fedora 34: https://gist.github.com/SurPaul/a15c1c6 … a_info-txt
From Fedora 30-32 just in case: https://gist.github.com/SurPaul/c03ba81 … 41754bba41

casualsnek

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Registered: 2022-09-03

Posts: 1

Re: No sound from the speakers of Acer Swift 5 laptop

My reply might be too late, but for anyone having this issue with swift 5, downgrading the kernel to 5.9.1 makes sound work again for me. And 5.9.1 is the last kernel with working out of box audio for swift 5. This seems to be bug in audio driver and i have reported at at bugzilla.kernel.org but there has been no progress !