Dummy Output, no other audio device (neither input, nor output)

Fresh CL installation (39590) on my new LGGram (2023). Everything default, no tweaks, no changes, no docking station, no nothing. The sound settings shows “Dummy output” for an output device, and no input devices.

What’s going on? Could it be that CL does not include any audio drivers for my computer?

(This is what Ubuntu people say, though I haven’t tried that yet. Also note that I do not have pipewire installed yet: like I said, everything is default. And yes, this happens with all the older CL releases I tried, such as 37860, 38800 etc.)

Here’s more on this:

  • pacmd returns nothing;
  • lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Audio returns nothing;
    Here’s even more:
dad@DadsGram~ $ lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a707]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:a7a0] (rev 04)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a71d]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal_pci
	Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device_pci
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a74d]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a72f]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:07.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a71f]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module [8086:a74f]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a77d] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: intel_vsec
	Kernel modules: intel_vsec
00:0d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a71e]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:0d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a76d]
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: thunderbolt
	Kernel modules: thunderbolt
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH USB 3.2 xHCI Host Controller [8086:51ed] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Shared SRAM [8086:51ef] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:51f1] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0094]
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:51e8] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
	Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:51e9] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
	Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH HECI Controller [8086:51e0] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:519d] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:51ca] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host Controller [8086:51a3] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH SPI Controller [8086:51a4] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0513]
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9B1 [144d:a80b] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9B1 [144d:a80b]
	Kernel driver in use: nvme

Any opinions please?

Did you try everything in the Ubunto URL: sound - ubuntu 22.04 audio output not working (dummy audio) - Ask Ubuntu you reference. This could be a case the latest clear Linux update rolled out does not support the latest audio driver.
Or one of the dependencies that needs to be running is not or not installed.

Here’s someone with the same issue as mine: he ended up selling his laptop. Hopefully I won’t have to do that …