Ubuntu Speaker Troubleshoot

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speakers not picked up on latest UBUNTU install, please help I am giving Linux another try I am on hour 22 of trying to get a fully successful install that can be used daily. This is the smoothest system I have managed to get so far.

ian@ian-Yoga-7-14ITL5:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics (rev 01)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9a03 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9a0d (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt USB Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt NHI #0 (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt NHI #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 20)
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
0000:00:1d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 09ab
0000:00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.3 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO SPI Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
10000:e0:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev 20)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a809

ian@ian-Yoga-7-14ITL5:~$ lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Lenovo 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IOMMU group 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Lenovo UHD Graphics
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 210, IOMMU group 1
 Memory at 605e000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Memory at 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
 Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: i915
 Kernel modules: i915
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9a03 (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3805
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 2
 Memory at 605f280000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
 Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device
0000:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 126, IOMMU group 3
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=2a, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff [size=4K]
 Memory behind bridge: 7c000000-881fffff [size=194M]
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000006000000000-000000601bffffff [size=448M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
0000:00:07.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127, IOMMU group 4
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=2b, subordinate=54, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff [size=4K]
 Memory behind bridge: 6e000000-7a1fffff [size=194M]
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000006020000000-000000603bffffff [size=448M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
0000:00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 128, IOMMU group 5
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=55, subordinate=7e, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff [size=4K]
 Memory behind bridge: 60000000-6c1fffff [size=194M]
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000006040000000-000000605bffffff [size=448M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
0000:00:07.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 129, IOMMU group 6
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=7f, subordinate=a8, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00007fff [size=4K]
 Memory behind bridge: 52000000-5e1fffff [size=194M]
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000006060000000-000000607bffffff [size=448M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
0000:00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9a0d (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Device 380e
 Flags: fast devsel, IOMMU group 7
 Memory at 605f2c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt USB Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 150, IOMMU group 8
 Memory at 605f2b0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: xhci_pci
0000:00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt NHI #0 (rev 01) (prog-if 40 [USB4 Host Interface])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 8
 Memory at 605f240000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
 Memory at 605f2dc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: thunderbolt
 Kernel modules: thunderbolt
0000:00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt NHI #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 40 [USB4 Host Interface])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 8
 Memory at 605f200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
 Memory at 605f2db000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: thunderbolt
 Kernel modules: thunderbolt
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IOMMU group 9
 Memory at 605c000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
 Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
 Memory at 605f100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: vmd
 Kernel modules: vmd
0000:00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 20) (prog-if 00 [8250])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Integrated Sensor Hub
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 10
 Memory at 605f2a0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: intel_ish_ipc
 Kernel modules: intel_ish_ipc
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 167, IOMMU group 11
 Memory at 7a200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: xhci_pci
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IOMMU group 11
 Memory at 605f2d0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Memory at 605f2da000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 12
 Memory at 605f2cc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
 Kernel modules: iwlwifi
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27, IOMMU group 13
 Memory at 4017000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
 Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40, IOMMU group 13
 Memory at 4017001000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
 Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 195, IOMMU group 14
 Memory at 605f2d7000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: mei_me
 Kernel modules: mei_me
0000:00:1d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 09ab
 Flags: fast devsel, IOMMU group 15
0000:00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO UART Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 16
 Memory at 4017002000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
 Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
0000:00:1e.3 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO SPI Controller #1 (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO SPI Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 37, IOMMU group 16
 Memory at 4017003000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
 Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IOMMU group 17
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 211, IOMMU group 17
 Memory at 605f2c8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Memory at 605f000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci
 Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 17
 Memory at 605f2d4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 I/O ports at efa0 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
 Kernel modules: i2c_i801
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IOMMU group 17
 Memory at 4f400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
10000:e0:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev 20) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 149, IOMMU group 9
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=e1, subordinate=e1, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: [disabled]
 Memory behind bridge: 50000000-500fffff [size=1M]
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a809 (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
 Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a801
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ -2147483648, NUMA node 0, IOMMU group 9
 Memory at 50000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: nvme
 Kernel modules: nvme

Please be specific with what you mean by latest Ubuntu. Do you mean the latest stable release (Ubuntu 20.10 or the 2020-October release), the latest LTS or 20.04 LTS or the 2020-April release) and I gather you mean a Desktop release. It's best if you're specific. — guiverc, Mar 08 '21 at 03:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '21 at 04:54

In order to have your audio device (an Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)) work, you have a couple of options:

Upgrade your Linux kernel to 5.10.1 (or newer)
Update the sof-firmware package that is required by the audio driver
Wait for Ubuntu 21.04 (which is expected to ship with kernel 5.11, which supports your audio device) or try the daily release (if you really cannot wait)

Each one of these options has a different amount of risk, so choose the option that you are most comfortable with.

Or, or, OP can buy a USB-DAC, which is like an "external sound card", attached via USB interface, and might work out-of-the-box, in case the driver(s) that Ubuntu ships with pick up the specific one purchased. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1319132/how-can-i-use-the-usb-dac-driver-in-ubuntu — Levente, Mar 08 '21 at 04:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 04 '21 at 16:44

I have the same problem with a Lenovo 13s Gen 2 ITL.

This problem seems to plague a lot of new Tiger Lake Laptop. I tried with 3 different Linux distribution and even with a 21.04, no dice.

The problem seems to be a "pin" amplifier problem.

This seems to be the solution here: Potential solution but I was not able to do it.

From my understanding the culprit is here when you use the aplay command:

    aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 0: HDA Analog (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Seems "Subdevices: 1/1" should be "Subdevices: 0/1".

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