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I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and my input and output built-in sound devices weren't detected by the system. After trying every option described in No sound output devices listed after upgrade from 21.10 to 22.04, I was able to fix built-in speakers by adding options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0 into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.

The issue with input devices (built-in microphone) not being detected remains. There are no problems related to the hardware, as the microphone is working in Windows 11, Ubuntu 20.04, and live Ubuntu 22.04.

Information related to the problem

This is how my settings are in Ubuntu 22.04: input devices window is empty and this is how it looks in Ubuntu 22.04 live microphone is detected

Hardware, drivers, and kernel version: HP envy 15-ep0xxx laptop with

uname -a
Linux andrii-HP-ENVY-Laptop-15-ep0xxx 6.2.0-32-generic #32~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 18 10:40:13 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci -knn | grep Audio -A3 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:1aeb] (rev a1) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company TU116 High Definition Audio Controller [103c:878d] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel 01:00.2 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 USB 3.1 Host Controller [10de:1aec] (rev a1)

Here I compare configurations of usual and live ubuntu correspondingly:

  1. live

    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ arecord -l

    **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 0: HDA Analog (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 1: HDA Digital (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 6: DMIC (*) []

    Subdevices: 0/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 7: DMIC16kHz (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ aplay -l

    **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

    card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 0: HDA Analog (*) []

    Subdevices: 0/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 1: HDA Digital (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 3: HDMI1 (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 4: HDMI2 (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 5: HDMI3 (*) []

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ pactl info

    Server String: /run/user/999/pulse/native

    Library Protocol Version: 35

    Server Protocol Version: 35

    Is Local: yes

    Client Index: 15

    Tile Size: 65472

    User Name: ubuntu

    Host Name: ubuntu

    Server Name: pulseaudio

    Server Version: 15.99.1

    Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz

    Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right

    Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp__sink

    Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_6__source Cookie: d5f6:7302

  2. usual: as you can see, the microphone is not listed here

    andrii@andrii-HP-ENVY-Laptop-15-ep0xxx  ~  arecord -l

    **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****

    card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC245 Analog [ALC245 Analog]

    Subdevices: 0/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    andrii@andrii-HP-ENVY-Laptop-15-ep0xxx  ~  aplay -l

    **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

    card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC245 Analog [ALC245 Analog]

    Subdevices: 0/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]

    Subdevices: 1/1

    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

andrii@andrii-HP-ENVY-Laptop-15-ep0xxx  ~  pactl info

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native

Library Protocol Version: 35

Server Protocol Version: 35

Is Local: yes

Client Index: 107

Tile Size: 65472

User Name: andrii

Host Name: andrii-HP-ENVY-Laptop-15-ep0xxx

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.48)

Server Version: 15.0.0

Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz

Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right

Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo

Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor

Cookie: c9ba:a9b4

Here is also my codec:

cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC245
Codec: Intel Kabylake HDMI
Codec: Nvidia GPU 99 HDMI/DP

What I tried that didn't work:

  1. reinstalling completely alsa, pulseaudio:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio

    sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio

    sudo alsa force-reload

  2. restarting pulseaudio instance:

    pulseaudio -k

    pulseaudio -D

  3. restarting pulseaudio service:

    systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

    systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.socket

  4. using pipewire insdead of pulseaudio:

    sudo apt install pipewire-audio-client-libraries systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service

    systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket

    systemctl --user disable pulseaudio.service

    systemctl --user disable pulseaudio.socket

    systemctl --user start pipewire.service

    systemctl --user start pipewire-pulse.service

    systemctl --user enable pipewire.service

    systemctl --user enable pipewire-pulse.service

  5. removing configuration files:

    rm -r ~/.config/pulse

  6. running

    sudo touch /usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio

    systemctl --user restart pipewire-session-manager

Any ideas how to fix this?

  • Completely reinstalling Ubuntu solved the problem, but I can't really recommend such a "solution". – Andrii Chumak Oct 21 '23 at 09:31
  • After a wild goose chase, what worked for me in the end was using the SOF drivers via grub - this is done by setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=3 snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=3" in /etc/default/grub then running sudo update-grub. This flag replaced dmic_detect=0 which was suggested in some places. – PLNech Feb 01 '24 at 09:56

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