New installation no sound (Swift 5 i7-1065GT Iris Plus)

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I installed Clear Linux yesterday on a new Acer Swift laptop with the Intel i7-1065G7 and Iris
Plus. This light laptop should be of interest to developers who also travel. Everything I’ve
checked works except for sound.

A file on devices I printed before doing the default “descructive installation” of Clear Linux
lists

Name Intel® Smart Sound Technology (Intel® SST)
Manufacturer Intel® Corporation
Status OK
PNP Device ID INTELAUDIO\CTLR_DEV_34C8&LINKTYPE_02&DEVTYPE_01&VEN_8086&DEV_AE20&SUBSYS_102513
6F&REV_0001\5&19748952&0&0100

dmesg in Clear Linux includes:
1.180854] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: No ASoC machine driver found - using nocodec
[ 1.181100] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed

with error -2
[ 1.181104] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: request firmware intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed
err: -2
[ 1.182531] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to load DSP firmware -2

[ 1.183894] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to probe DSP hardware!

Let me know where I might find advice with this. I’ve searched and not found much.

Any suggestions on this will be appreciated.

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The firmware loading failed. I’ll try tomorrow to track down what the status of it is.

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Thank you for looking into this.


ahkok
Clear Linux OS Team

    December 17

SteveT:
I installed Clear Linux yesterday on a new Acer Swift laptop with the Intel i7-1065G7 and Iris
Plus. This light laptop should be of

The firmware loading failed. I’ll try tomorrow to track down what the status of it is.

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It appears these firmware files are being published over here:

Can you try to install these into /etc/firmware/intel/sof and see if they work?

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Let me know if I am on the right track here. The SOF project lists six files plus the source code.
This page
https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Firmware
has instructions for compiling. They assume a distribution like ubuntu. I have most of the dependencies they mention through the bundles i have installed with swupd. I don’t find a bundle with libtool-bin libncurses5-dev, though I have libtool and libncurses. Am I making this more complicated than it needs to be?

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You would just download the files your system needs - hint: they were listed in your log output!

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So I created the directory and copied the one file to it and made a link without the version name:

$ ls -l /etc/firmware/intel/sof/

rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 17 14:10 sof-icl.ri -> sof-icl-v1.4.1.ri
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 286720 Dec 17 13:40 sof-icl-v1.4.1.ri

After restart:

$ sudo dmesg | grep -i audio
Password:
[ 1.178133] calling sof_nocodec_audio_init+0x0/0x1000 [snd_sof_nocodec] @ 402
[ 1.178164] initcall sof_nocodec_audio_init+0x0/0x1000 [snd_sof_nocodec] returned 0 after 27 usecs
[ 1.185193] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: warning: No matching ASoC machine driver found
[ 1.185195] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040100
[ 1.185422] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[ 1.189975] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: No ASoC machine driver found - using nocodec
[ 1.192338] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: unexpected ipc interrupt raised!
[ 1.192340] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: no reply expected, received 0x0
[ 1.280326] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 1:1:0-fcf6c
[ 1.280327] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:11:0 Kernel ABI 3:10:0
[ 1.280328] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: FW ABI is more recent than kernel
[ 1.281568] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: ABI mismatch -22
[ 3.306719] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: firmware boot failure
[ 3.313852] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: status: fw entered - code 00000005
[ 3.321579] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: status = 0x00000000 panic = 0x00004000
[ 3.330360] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: status: fw entered - code 00000005
[ 3.338067] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to boot DSP firmware -5
[ 3.346799] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to probe DSP hardware!
[ 3.358187] sof-audio-pci: probe of 0000:00:1f.3 failed with error -5

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That seems to suggest you need an older firmare file (from the same project)

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On the page for sof version 1.3 there are three similar driver. One has “signed-intel” which I’ve used here, still fails:

$ sudo dmesg | grep -i audio
Password: 
[    1.178283] calling  sof_nocodec_audio_init+0x0/0x1000 [snd_sof_nocodec] @ 399
[    1.178315] initcall sof_nocodec_audio_init+0x0/0x1000 [snd_sof_nocodec] returned 0 after 28 usecs
[    1.187724] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: warning: No matching ASoC machine driver found
[    1.187727] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040100
[    1.187940] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[    1.206557] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: No ASoC machine driver found - using nocodec
[    1.208132] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: unexpected ipc interrupt raised!
[    1.208133] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: no reply expected, received 0x0
[    4.265661] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: load fw failed ret: -110
[    4.273089] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: status = 0x0000002c panic = 0x00000000
[    4.281825] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to reset DSP
[    4.288807] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to boot DSP firmware -110
[    4.347214] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: reset enter failed: core_mask f adspcs 0x1d003c
[    4.356824] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: dsp core reset failed: core_mask f
[    4.365458] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to probe DSP hardware!
[    4.373556] sof-audio-pci: probe of 0000:00:1f.3 failed with error -110
skt@puma~ $

/etc/firmware/intel/sof $ ln -s sof-icl-signed-intel.ri sof-icl.ri

sof-icl-gcc.ri 168 KB

sof-icl-signed-intel.ri 272 KB

sof-icl-unsigned.ri 272 KB

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I tried the other two similar modules with sof version 1.3. They all said about the same thing, ending with

sof-audio-pci: probe of 0000:00:1f.3 failed with error -110

Sorry about the format on the last one. I thought I had done it exactly the same as the early one.

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FWIW, I have the same issue on an HP Spectre 360 (model 13-aw0013dx). Seems that the i7-1065G7 isn’t quite supported yet.

Snippet from dmesg:

[ 2.516272] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed with error -2
[ 2.516274] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: request firmware intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed err: -2
[ 2.516593] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to load DSP firmware -2

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I have the same issue on a Lenovo yoga C940 i7-1065G7 CPU :

[ 26.334232] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: warning: No matching ASoC machine driver found
[ 26.334233] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040100
[ 26.334363] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[ 26.339444] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: No ASoC machine driver found - using nocodec
[ 26.339888] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed with error -2
[ 26.339891] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: request firmware intel/sof/sof-icl.ri failed err: -2
[ 26.340753] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to load DSP firmware -2
[ 26.342040] sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: error: failed to probe DSP hardware!

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There is an open issue here:

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I managed to find a way to fix this until it is patched:

Create this file: /etc/kernel/cmdline.d/snd.conf

With this content:
snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0

Then run
sudo clr-boot-manager update

This will disable mic detection in your kernel at boot time.

After a reboot should be present in:
cat /proc/cmdline

You should have sound output.

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I’ll apply the patches from thesofproject/sof#2134 (comment)

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this worked for me but I got random flickers.
what I end up doing was to install the “kernel-native-current” and then switch to the installed kernel :

sudo swupd bundle-add kernel-native-current
sudo clr-boot-manager list-kernels
org.clearlinux.native.5.4.13-895
org.clearlinux.current.5.3.1-11
to set kernel :
sudo clr-boot-manager set-kernel org.clearlinux.current.5.3.1-11

kernel 5.3.1 works very well no flicker, got sound and better graphical benchmarks.

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Sorry to hijack.
Steve I have the same laptop. Does the microphone and touchscreen work for you?