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murpsam

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Registered: 2023-11-14

Posts: 3

[SOLVED]Soundcard not detected Dell XPS 13 Plus 9320

Installed Arch after struggling with Fedora, although with Fedora all of my audio drivers and stuff just worked out of the box. However, on Arch it has been a different story. A lot of confusing issues and lack of any audio output whatsoever. Pavucontrol shows "Dummy output" for audio device and no hardware device is listed. Alsa mixer has similar issues.
If it helps my window manager is Qtile running X11.

Packages installed:
pipewire
pipewire-pulse
pipewire-alsa
wireplumber
sof-firmware
alsa-firmware
alsa-ucm-conf
alsa-tools
alsa-plugins

Output for aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 1: HDMI1 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 2: HDMI2 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 3: HDMI3 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Output of inxi -A:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel driver: N/A
  Device-2: Intel Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.62-1-lts status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.84 status: active

Output of dmesg | grep -E 'sof|snd':

[sudo] password for sam:
[    0.053451] software IO TLB: area num 16.
[    0.933197] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.933197] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x0000000049f85000-0x000000004df85000] (64MB)
[    1.031966] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    1.031975] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    5.040184] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[    5.044350] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: SoundWire enabled on CannonLake+ platform, using SOF driver
[    5.173015] snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl: unknown parameter 'index' ignored
[    5.173017] snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl: unknown parameter 'dsp_driver' ignored
[    5.173018] snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl: unknown parameter 'dsp_driver' ignored
[    5.173056] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[    5.173078] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: SoundWire enabled on CannonLake+ platform, using SOF driver
[    5.173090] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    5.173228] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040100
[    5.173283] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    5.181866] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[    5.195119] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: No SoundWire machine driver found
[    5.195121] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 4
[    5.195122] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: using HDA machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic now
[    5.195124] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DMICs detected in NHLT tables: 0
[    5.198728] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 2:2:0-57864
[    5.198730] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:0
[    5.198733] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: unknown sof_ext_man header type 3 size 0x30
[    5.293255] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 2:2:0-57864
[    5.293260] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:0
[    5.312184] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Topology: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:0
[    5.345176] input: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=1 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input23
[    5.345223] input: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=2 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input24
[    5.345257] input: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input25

Would appreciate any help in this regard. Please let me know if you need any commands run or more output. This problem has been bugging me for days now.

Last edited by murpsam (2023-11-15 03:29:44)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,376

Re: [SOLVED]Soundcard not detected Dell XPS 13 Plus 9320

Use the normal, not the LTS kernel (it's a year old, in terms of hardware support). And drop whatever modprobe attempts you're trying to do.

Last edited by V1del (2023-11-14 23:53:34)

murpsam

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Registered: 2023-11-14

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]Soundcard not detected Dell XPS 13 Plus 9320

Oh my god that was the issue! So much searching about alsa and pipewire and the issue was that simple. Thank you so much! Speakers detected and working.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,376

Re: [SOLVED]Soundcard not detected Dell XPS 13 Plus 9320

Not sure which youtube guide reccommends people to try LTS first and foremost. It should be a backup kernel when things aren't working for some reason, not generally your default pick, you miss out on a bunch of current developments. In any case please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.