Control: reassign -1 src:firmware-sof 1.7-1 Fixing typo in package name, full quote below for convenience of package Maintainer.
Kind regards, Andrei On Vi, 13 aug 21, 12:55:44, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: src:firwmare-sof > Severity: important > Version: 1.7-1 > > I just upgraded a notebook to a fresh Debian 11 system (I started the system > with Debian testing +/- a year ago). > > The notebook device is a Lenovo Thinkpad 13S. A year ago, I turned the > dsp_driver on to work-around the firmware-sof package not having been > provided in Debian back then: > > ``` > cat /etc/modprobe.d/no-sof.conf > # play sound without the SOF firmware > options snd_intel_dspcfg dsp_driver=1 > ``` > > One complaint of the customer who owns the notebooks then was, that the > internal microphone was not usable with those machines. > > Today, I looked at switching to using the SOF firmware with the > snd_hda_intel driver and disable the fallback DSP driver again: > > ``` > cat /etc/modprobe.d/with-sof.conf > # play sound without the SOF firmware (this is the kernel's default) > options snd_intel_dspcfg dsp_driver=0 > ``` > > With SOF, I was able to see the onboard DMIC microphone, but the microphone > does not have any input signal. (And yes, I know how to enable/use > microphones on computer, with and without pulseaudio). > > I then found a post on the SOF project's upstream bug tracker, that provided > me with a work-around solution and I wonder if the related fix might be a > bullseye-pu upload candidate: > > The work-around is presented here: > https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/2460#issuecomment-779212719 > > In a nutshell, a binary blob is offered there to replace the file > sof-hda-generic-2ch.tplg in firmware-sof-signed. > > After a reboot, with that firmware file replaced, the onboard DMIC works and > has become usable. > > The related upstream PR is: > https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/pull/3847 > > The PR never got applied, as it got closed when upstream's master branch got > renamed to "main". Noone ever cared for reopening that PR. > > To clarify the situation, I pinged the PR submitter and upstream via: > https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/2460#issuecomment-898423772 > > It would be awesome to get a fixed firmware-sof version (which then also > works for the Lenovo Thinkpad 13S) into Debian 11.1. Let me know if I can > assist with anything around fixing this bug. Thanks. > > Thanks+Greets, > Mike > > > > -- > > DAS-NETZWERKTEAM > c\o Technik- und Ökologiezentrum Eckernförde > Mike Gabriel, Marienthaler Str. 17, 24340 Eckernförde > mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 > landline: +49 (4351) 850 8940 > > GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 > mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de > -- Looking after bugs assigned to unknown or inexistent packages
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