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  Help settings up sound card on Debian stable manphiz@gmail.com - 2022-04-12 03:50 +0200
    Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2022-04-13 09:30 +0200
      Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-14 11:10 +0200
        Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable manphiz@gmail.com - 2022-04-14 11:50 +0200
      Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable manphiz@gmail.com - 2022-04-14 11:50 +0200

#247203 — Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

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Hi,

I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable 
with backports.  Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, 
bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.  I'll focus on the sound card issue here and use a 
new thread for the latter 2 items (which are related to the same 
MediaTek module.)

I've enabled backports repo and installed the latest backport kernel. 
It looks like the system can detect the device according to inxi output:

```
$ inxi -SMA
System:
   Host: debian-hx90 Kernel: 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
     Desktop: N/A Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
   Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: HX90 serial: <superuser required>
     UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 5.19 date: 10/11/2021
Audio:
   Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
   Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor driver: N/A
   Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
   Device-4: C-Media Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A) type: USB
     driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
   Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 running: yes
   Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
   Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: yes
```

but note this line: "Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio 
Processor driver: N/A" which seems to suggest that the driver is not 
available.  I tried to list devices using "aplay -l" but got no sound 
card available:

```
$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...
```

PulseAudio also reports only the dummy sink is available:

```
$ pactl list sinks
Sink #0
         State: SUSPENDED
         Name: auto_null
         Description: Dummy Output
         Driver: module-null-sink.c
         Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
         Channel Map: front-left,front-right
         Owner Module: 12
         Mute: no
         Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB,   front-right: 
65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
                 balance 0.00
         Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
         Monitor Source: auto_null.monitor
         Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
         Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY SET_FORMATS
         Properties:
                 device.description = "Dummy Output"
                 device.class = "abstract"
                 device.icon_name = "audio-card"
         Formats:
                 pcm
```

I've googled around and tried to install some firmware including 
"firmware-sof-signed" but it didn't help.  The "lspci output" looks like:

```
$ sudo lspci -v
[..snip..]

04:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 
Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor (rev 01)
         Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 
Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
         Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 69, IOMMU group 5
         Memory at fca80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] 
 

         Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> 

         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
         Capabilities: [64] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 

         Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 
Len=010 <?>
         Kernel modules: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x
 

04:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h 
(Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller
         DeviceName: HD Audio Controller 

         Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Family 17h (Models 
10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 74, IOMMU group 5
         Memory at fcac0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
         Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
         Capabilities: [64] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 
Len=010 <?>
         Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
         Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

[..snip..]
```

The "lsmod" output seems to show that everything is loaded, but it seems 
the acp3x related modules are not in use:
```
$ sudo lsmod | grep snd
snd_usb_audio         356352  2
snd_usbmidi_lib        45056  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     73728  1
snd_rawmidi            45056  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device         16384  1 snd_rawmidi
mc                     65536  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_intel          57344  1
snd_intel_dspcfg       28672  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_intel_sdw_acpi     20480  1 snd_intel_dspcfg
snd_hda_codec         176128  2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_core          110592  3 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_hwdep              16384  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               147456  5 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core
snd_timer              45056  1 snd_pcm
snd                   114688  16 
snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi
snd_rn_pci_acp3x       20480  0
soundcore              16384  1 snd
snd_pci_acp3x          20480  0
usbcore               327680  6 
xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usbmidi_lib,btusb,xhci_pci
```

I'm not sure what to do about this, and there isn't much result from 
Googling that are related to Debian.  Any suggestions are appreciated! 
And if there's any more info needed I'd like to provide if that helps.

Thanks in advance.

[1] https://store.minisforum.com/products/hx90?variant=40508847128737

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#247205

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Le 12/04/2022 à 03:48, manphiz@gmail.com a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable 
> with backports.  Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, 
> bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
Hi,

I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. 
But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and 
testing generally runs great.

Regards,
Yvan

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#247215

On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote:

> I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. 
> But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and 
> testing generally runs great.

It seems to be more or less consent that you are not advised to run
Debian Testing on a productive system, one of the reasons is security
support. Is this system so new that it requires a kernel from testing?
bullseye-backports has kernel 5.16.12, the  kernel in testing is also a
5.16.x release.
It will probably not take too much time until 5.17.x or 5.18.x will
appear in bullseye-backports.

Regards,
Christian

-- 
http://www.cb-fraggle.de

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On 4/14/22 02:07, Christian Britz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> 
>> I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry.
>> But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and
>> testing generally runs great.
> 
> It seems to be more or less consent that you are not advised to run
> Debian Testing on a productive system, one of the reasons is security
> support. Is this system so new that it requires a kernel from testing?
> bullseye-backports has kernel 5.16.12, the  kernel in testing is also a
> 5.16.x release.
> It will probably not take too much time until 5.17.x or 5.18.x will
> appear in bullseye-backports.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 

Exactly as Christian said.  Will like to learn about sound card 
configuration in general as well, so any suggestion is appreciated.

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On 4/13/22 00:28, Yvan Masson wrote:
> 
> Le 12/04/2022 à 03:48, manphiz@gmail.com a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable 
>> with backports.  Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, 
>> bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
> Hi,
> 
> I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. 
> But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and 
> testing generally runs great.
> 
> Regards,
> Yvan

Thanks, and no worries.  The reason I haven't tried testing is that this 
is a semi-production system and I'd like the base system to be stable. 
Also I've seen some success story regarding this type of sound card on 
other Linux distributions with a sufficiently recent kernel (5.15-ish), 
so I'd like to at least try to make it work which will be a learning 
process.  In the worst case I may just wait for bookworm to become 
stable next year :)

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