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Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

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Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

#1 Post by doctom »

Hi,

I installed the latest weekly installer build of Debian/Testing (bookworm) on Dell XPS 13 Plus (Intel Alder Lake chipset). After installation there were no sound devices shown in Gnome settings and using "aplay -l" . After I added "snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0" to the Grub command line. I still see not output or input devices in Gnome settings. However "aplay" shows

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$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 12: HDMI 6 [HDMI 6]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 13: HDMI 7 [HDMI 7]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 14: HDMI 8 [HDMI 8]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 15: HDMI 9 [HDMI 9]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 16: HDMI 10 [HDMI 10]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 17: HDMI 11 [HDMI 11]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
and "lspci" shows

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$ lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Audio
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller [8086:51c8] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller [1028:0af3]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
lsmod shows

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$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_usb_audio         364544  0
snd_usbmidi_lib        45056  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            49152  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device         16384  1 snd_rawmidi
mc                     69632  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl    16384  0
snd_sof_intel_hda_common   126976  1 snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
soundwire_intel        45056  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_intel_hda      20480  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_pci            24576  2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_sof_xtensa_dsp     16384  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof               212992  2 snd_sof_pci,snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_utils          20480  1 snd_sof
snd_soc_hdac_hda       24576  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_hda_ext_core       40960  3 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     81920  1
snd_soc_acpi_intel_match    69632  2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_soc_acpi           16384  2 snd_soc_acpi_intel_match,snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_soc_core          344064  4 soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda
snd_compress           28672  1 snd_soc_core
snd_hda_intel          57344  0
snd_intel_dspcfg       36864  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_intel_sdw_acpi     20480  2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_intel_dspcfg
snd_hda_codec         184320  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_hdac_hda
snd_hda_core          118784  7 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_hwdep              16384  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               159744  11 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_sof_utils,snd_hda_core
snd_timer              45056  1 snd_pcm
snd                   126976  13 snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi
soundcore              16384  1 snd
usbcore               339968  6 xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usbmidi_lib,btusb,xhci_pci
Oddly enough with the older Alpha release of bookworm installer sound does indeed work but Wifi does not. I was able to get Wifi working with the latest weekly build so would prefer to use this.

I would be grateful for any pointers on how to get sound working with Debian/Testing.

Regards

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

#2 Post by FreewheelinFrank »

Do you have firmware-sof-signed installed?

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

#3 Post by doctom »

Thank you. I just installed firmware-sof-signed, then did update-intramfs and update-grub. After this the device (shown below) were created

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$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 2: Speaker (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 5: HDMI 1 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 6: HDMI 2 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 7: HDMI 3 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
However there was still no sound despite a reboot. So I did

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systemctl --user enable pulseaudio
systemctl --user start pulseaudio
After this the audio has started working. However every time I reboot the system I need to do

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systemctl --user start pulseaudio
for audio to work again. This does not seem right. Any idea how I can ensure audio is enable always for all users ?

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

#4 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Try resetting PulseAudio:

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rm -rf /tmp/pulse* ~/.pulse* ~/.config/pulse
pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --start
I don't think you should have to enable or start that --user .service at all. But I might be wrong.
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

#5 Post by doctom »

After deleting the cache and config files as suggested above, then killing and restarting pulse audio the audio device will again not detected, even after a reboot. I had to once again issue the systemctl --user command to enable the audio device in gnome.

Will be happy provide any diagnostic output to help narrow down the culprit here.

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Plus - No sound devices with Debian/Testing

#6 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

doctom wrote: 2022-09-27 15:26narrow down the culprit
It might be just another testing SNAFU. Check the systemd journal for clues.
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