Audio doesn’t work on Dell XPS 9320

[Ichika-Zou]

Need some help to get audio working on Dell XPS 9320

I have been solving my audio problem for sometime originally is Sof-firmware has some problem with kernel and has been solved by kernel 6.0.13 update but somehow my audio still doesn’t work.

The Sof-firmware developer point out that the problem could related to alsa-ucm-conf but I’m not really familiar with alsa, so I need help.

Issue from GitHub:
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/6843

Kernel config: (dpaste only allow 250000 characters, so it would expired in 24 hours, I will update again after expired)
https://dpaste.com/GVZSDYKBP

dmesg:
https://dpaste.com/53KBWNJ9N

lspci:
https://dpaste.com/HPTZWPKPN

lshw:
https://dpaste.com/8M4STTAV8

aplay -l:
https://dpaste.com/CSWQFGQSL

aplay -L:
https://dpaste.com/EKT9SMRJK

alsamixer:
https://imgur.com/a/ZnAPcZp

[mike155]

Hi Ichika-Zou,

welcome to the Gentoo forums! And thanks for all the data you posted. Your first post is perfect.

I see the error message below in your output of 'dmesg':

[Ichika-Zou]

The solution from arch is to address this https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/6111, which is already solved in kernel update 6.0.13

The driver do loaded in the end and ALSA hardware level test work, I ran this command

[mike155]

I think I would start changing things until it works. For example, I would compile the whole soundsystem directly into kernel ([*], not [M]). Sometimes that helps. If you do that, it's also necessary to build all sound related firmware directly into the kernel. Otherwise you will get firmware load errors in the output of 'dmesg'.

It's a pity you can't switch to kernel 6.1. Can you at least test whether it works under Linux kernel 6.1? Or is your root filesystem on ZFS?

[Ichika-Zou]

[quote="mike155"]I think I would start changing things until it works. For example, I would compile the whole soundsystem directly into kernel ([*], not [M]). Sometimes that helps. If you do that, it's also necessary to build all sound related firmware directly into the kernel. Otherwise you will get firmware load errors in the output of 'dmesg'.

Yeah, this is what I gonna try in later days, I use Gentoo-kernel-bin right now and for some post on forums that related to audio problem usually solved by builtin module.

My rootfs is zfs Indeed but I don’t think zfs 2.18 would be a long wait, since kernel 6.1.* should be the next lts kernel.

Thank god audio is not necessary to me but it’s still annoying to have this problem.