Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Monday, 7 November 2022 23:35:44 CET Julian Groß wrote: > Package: firmware-misc-nonfree > Version: 20221012-1 > > I have been running into weird behaviour on my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z > (Serial number either SB1500 or SB1502). Just now I noticed that a > seemingly related firmware file doesn't get loaded. Here is a section out > of dmesg: > > [ 9.591329] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load > ctefx-desktop.bin (-2) [ 9.591355] firmware_class: See > https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware [ > 9.591387] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load > ctefx-desktop.bin (-2) [ 9.591409] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: Direct > firmware load for ctefx-desktop.bin failed with error -2 [ 9.592599] > snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware ctefx.bin > > ctefx-desktop.bin shows up in the list of firmware that is supposed to be > included in Debian. https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/List
ctefx-desktop.bin is not in the upstream firmware repo and (thus) also not in Debian's package. I haven't looked closely at that wiki page/script to see where it got it from. https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/firmware/ does have that file though. The error you got is Debian specific, but the last line does show it has loaded 'a' (fallback) firmware. > While the driver seems to load a different firmware file, and the sound card > works most of the time, the identification in lspci seems wrong, and there > is random issues like no audio output until reboot, "electric" audio output > until reboot, no audio input until reboot, settings needing to be applied > multiple times, and alsactl store failing. lspci reports a "Subsystem: > Creative Labs SB1570 SB Audigy Fx", while this card is from a different > series and looks completely different from it. Not knowing much about this > sort of thing, I am assuming the driver is falling back to the firmware for > a different sound card, which might be causing a bunch of my issues. There could be several issues at play here. Can you DL via the above mentioned URL the latest `alsa-firmware-<version>.tar.bz` and place the ctefx-desktop.bin in the appropreate location and see if that resolves this issue? > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bookworm/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, > TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE It's also useful to know if there are any changes (for the better) with more recent kernels. That can be a 6.1 kernel from Stable or a 6.5+ one from Testing/Unstable/Experimental.
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