ThinkPad 11e,Model:20D90020US hdmi audio

[jimbolaya]

I'm running an updated Bullseye with kernel 5.10.0-3-amd64.

I have a ThinkPad 11e,Model:20D90020US and I would like to know if I can get the HDMI audio to work. It works in W10, so I know it can be done.

ALSA doesn't even list it as a card.

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cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0x90810000 irq 101
29 [ThinkPadEC     ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
                      ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw N15HT35W


I tried finding and installing all the intel firmware I could find, but it didn't seem to make much difference.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I tried finding and installing all the intel firmware I could find

What does this mean, exactly? Which packages did you install? Have you tried the firmware-misc-nonfree or firmware-sof-signed packages?

EDIT: check

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# dmesg | grep firmware

[jimbolaya]

Which packages did you install?

I started out with firmware-intel-sound before I resorted to getting firmware from kernel.org.

What does this mean, exactly?

I was chasing down messages about missing firmware. I went to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... /tree/i915 and downloaded the intel firmware and put it in /lib/firmware.

Have you tried the firmware-misc-nonfree or firmware-sof-signed packages?

I have firmware-misc-nonfree. I was unaware of firmware-sof-signed.

I installed firmware-sof-signed but that still didn't load the HDMI sound interface.

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dmesg | grep firmware
[    0.119420] Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculation for firmware calls
[    7.531996] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db
[    7.532881] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db.p7s
[    7.659584] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode
[    7.660455] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.3216344376.0 7260-17.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[    7.660527] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[    7.660614] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[    9.367848] r8169 0000:05:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw


Anything else I can provide?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Use this to check the kernel driver in use:

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lspci -k

If it's the snd_hda_intel module then try applying the dmic_detect=1 parameter.

For the method see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke ... le_options

[jimbolaya]

If it's the snd_hda_intel module then try applying the dmic_detect=1 parameter.

I tried that, but it didn't make any difference. In any case looking at the modinfo for snd_hda_intel, it states in part

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dmic_detect:Allow DSP driver selection (bypass this driver) (0=off, 1=on) (default=1); deprecated, use snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver option instead (bool)

There's only one option for snd-intel-dspcfg:

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dsp_driver:Force the DSP driver for Intel DSP (0=auto, 1=legacy, 2=SST, 3=SOF) (int)


I set it to 1, but

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/sys/module/snd_intel_dspcfg/parameters/dsp_driver

still says 0. I might have to fuss with the initramfs to get it to load.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Add the option under /etc/modprobe.d/ then rebuild the initramfs to include it:

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# update-initramfs -u -k all

[jimbolaya]

I finally got a chance to sit down and go through some tests.

I went through and set

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options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=0

to all the values available (0,1,2,3) and the only thing that happened was the "HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH" card disappeared for any setting besides "0".

I'm open to what to try next.

Thank you for your help so far.