On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:37 PM Anssi Saari <
as@sci.fi> wrote:
Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> writes:
> In Debian 11 "Live", lspci -nn reports:
> "00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller [8086:a0c8] (rev
> 20)".
This isn't new sound hardware so should work in Debian 11.
With a quick look, you probably need the non-free package
firmware-sof-signed but that isn't included in the Debian 11 live. You
could try an image which contains those things from
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/
Or, if you're familiar in Debian, maybe you can install the
firmware-sof-signed pacakge in the live system you already have? I'm not
sure if that's possible there, I haven't used Debian Live in a while.
[UPDATE:]
I did try Debian 11.6 "live" . Again, No sound.
BTW,
sudo apt show firmware-sof-signed
shows firmware-sof-signed as installed for both Debian Live 11.0
and Debian Live 11.6. :
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[From Debian 11.6]:
Package: firmware-sof-signed
Version: 1.7-1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/kernel
Source: firmware-sof
Maintainer: Mark Pearson <
markpearson@lenovo.com>
Installed-Size: 10.1 MB
Homepage:
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-binDownload-Size: unknown
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Intel SOF firmware - signed
Provides the Intel SOF audio firmware and topology needed for audio
functionality on some Intel system.
.
This package contains the pre-built and signed binaries.
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I have not yet tried Bookworm, as I do not know where to find a "Live" image of that,
and again, I do not want to install it (yet) on the computer's internal SSD, since that
would make the computer unreturnable.
Perhaps I could use the Bookworm weekly build to install to an external usb device,
and try running it from there, to verify that the sound does work on the computer, before
installing to the internal ssd.
Is that feasible?
And of course recommendations for a current laptop (preferably reasonably priced)
that actual experience shows does work well with Debian would be welcome.