After a bit of time I had the opportunity to investigate this a bit further. Even running speaker-test on sys-audio results in the audio stammering, and sys-audio manages the device directly... Could this be a problem between fedora33 and my sound card? What can I do to pinpoint the problem?
Any help is appreciated! Fab On Friday, September 17, 2021 at 2:49:54 AM UTC+2 Fabrizio Romano Genovese wrote: > Hello all, > > I managed to finally install Qubes 4.1, but the audio problem is still not > fixed. As awokd pointed out, in Qubes 4.1 I can define an audio-vm which, > having fedora33, correctly recognizes my audio card. > > I first tried the easy way: I created a sys-audio vm, and assigned the > audio card to it. Unfortunately, the audio doesn't really work smoothly: > Playing youtube videos on sys-audio is very slow and the sound is > continuously cackling. > > Investigating things further, it seems that there is already some salt > script I can use to create sys-audio. So I removed my sys-audio vm and I > tried with > sudo qubesctl state.sls qvm.sys-audio > that lists two processes, one succeds and the other one fails. After this > I have sys-audio again, but it is not used by default by any other vm. I > tested with > qvm-prefs untrusted audiovm sysaudio > but audio still does not work. Youtube videos now do not really start. If > I set audio back to dom0 and reboot the vm instead they do (but obviously I > cannot hear anything given that dom0 has fedora32 which doesn't like my > card). > > I feel like there's something very simple that I am missing. Am I maybe > issuing the wrong salt command to set up sys-audio? > > Cheers, > Fab > > > On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 11:55:34 AM UTC+2 Fabrizio Romano Genovese > wrote: > >> On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 10:25:20 PM UTC+1 Fabrizio Romano Genovese >> wrote: >> >>> On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 3:14:43 PM UTC+1 fac...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> I think your dell has different wifi and I think audio. The wifi >>>> driver for the xps 9310 is iwlwifi. Here is some firmware info: >>>> https://support.killernetworking.com/knowledge-base/killer-ax1650-in-debian-ubuntu-16-04/ >>>> >>>> and here is some qubes specific info on your wifi driver: >>>> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5615 >>>> >>> >>> Alas, no, I really have the AX500. The AX1650 is waay much more well >>> behaved and it is the one that is usually shipped on XPS developer edition. >>> Unfortunately XPS developer edition does not have a 32GB RAM option, which >>> was absolutely needed for me, being Qubes unbelievably ram hungry. So I was >>> forced to purchase the model with the Killer AX500 T_T >>> >>> >>>> I think the audio is different too, as the xps 9700 needs the 5.10 >>>> kernel to work, but the base-config patch above does enable >>>> CONFIG_SND_SOC_SOF_INTEL_SOUNDWIRE which I think you need too. >>>> >>>> To patch the kernel you must build it from source with qubes-builder >>>> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/qubes-builder/. First configure it. >>>> Then change kernel to master branch in builer.conf. after the "make >>>> get-sources" is when you would patch with config-base in >>>> qubes-builder/qubes-src/linux-kernel. >>>> >>> >>> The sad thing is that audio worked perfectly on kernel 5.4... I'll try >>> to give a look to this by the end of the week, when I'll have a bit less >>> work to do :) >>> >>> >>>> fedora 33 5.10 kernel supports much more devices and audio works in the >>>> upstream fedora on both the 9700 and 9310 dells. I'll see if I can get a >>>> patch into qubes the upstream kernel modules which fedora has added or at >>>> the minimum the SOF stuff in the patch. Then all our audio will just >>>> work >>>> with qubes. >>>> >>> >>> That would be a wonderful, wonderful thing. In the meantime I'll try to >>> learn how to compile my own kernels, my pc also tends to heat quite a lot >>> and I suspect that a taylored kernel could make my overall experience >>> better, correct me if I'm wrong... :) >>> >> >> By any chance, does everyone know if there are any news about these audio >> issues? I'm updating the kernel to the latest version every week or so, but >> unfortunately sound is still not working :( >> >> >>> >>> About awokd suggestions: I tried to install 4.1 but the installer >>> doesn't boot on my machine. Also, I've always been very unlucky with Qubes >>> backups (traditionally I do them and they never work on restore), so I'd >>> gladly avoid having to reinstall everything right now... >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 11:34 AM Fabrizio Romano Genovese < >>>> fabr...@statebox.io> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I installed qubes on a Dell XPS9310. I was using kernel 5.4.90 and >>>>> sound was working, but wi-fi did not. So I upgraded to kernel 5.10.13 and >>>>> now I have both wifi and sound not working :D >>>>> >>>>> It seems that the sound issues are due to a problem with driver >>>>> sof-audio-pci. >>>>> In this thread: https://groups.google.com/g/qubes-users/c/Fa65-e8vqdM >>>>> it turns out another user was having a similar problem with a dell 9700, >>>>> which was apparently solved. Indeed in the thread it is said: >>>>> >>>>> Audio works (with kernel 5.10 and attached kernel base-config patch + >>>>> latest 1.6.1 sof-bin firmware https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin >>>>> and alsa-ucm-config files. see >>>>> https://blog.fts.scot/2020/07/04/dell-xps-2020-how-to-get-audio-working-on-linux/ >>>>> >>>>> for alsa ucm config ). >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, I am not technically skilled enough to really >>>>> understand the fix. Does it mean that I have to download kernel 5.10 >>>>> (from >>>>> were?), apply the patch provided in the thread (how?), include firmware >>>>> and >>>>> config files (how?) and then compile and install? >>>>> As you can see I don't really have a specific question, and I'm more >>>>> in search of a few clarifications to understand how to apply an >>>>> apparently >>>>> already available solution. :) >>>>> >>>>> Fab >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "qubes-users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to qubes-users...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5bde992b-ea73-499f-bcd1-38a0a2f0028fn%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5bde992b-ea73-499f-bcd1-38a0a2f0028fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://myutil.com >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. 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