Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Arnaud Rebillout, le mer. 16 févr. 2022 10:00:42 +0700, a ecrit: > On 2/14/22 18:55, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Could you try with the following image: > > > > https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/debian-sid-amd64-NETINST-1.iso > > > > It's supposed to have the firmware available for loading before speech > > starts. > > Just tried it, and it works! The sound card is detected and the speech > synthesis is functional. \o/ Thanks for testing! Samuel
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Hi Samuel, On 2/14/22 18:55, Samuel Thibault wrote: Could you try with the following image: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/debian-sid-amd64-NETINST-1.iso It's supposed to have the firmware available for loading before speech starts. Just tried it, and it works! The sound card is detected and the speech synthesis is functional. Tested on laptop Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 8. $ sudo lspci | grep -Ei '(sound|audio)' 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS Thanks! -- Arnaud Rebillout / Offensive Security / Kali Linux Developer
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Hello, Asking debian-kernel about firmwares: is the firmware-intel-sound package needed for getting sound on some hardware? Do you know if arm64 has some platforms which require such kind of sound firmwares? Samuel Samuel Thibault, le lun. 14 févr. 2022 12:55:15 +0100, a ecrit: > Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. This firmware > > is packaged under 'firmware-sof-signed'. For reference, you might want > > to look at the ITP [1]. > > > > I tried it with my laptop. What happens is that the installer gets stuck > > straight from the beginning, prior it can show any kind of GUI. All I > > get is a black scree with the lines: > > > > Please wait while we probe your sound card(s)... > > Could you try with the following image: > > https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/debian-sid-amd64-NETINST-1.iso > > It's supposed to have the firmware available for loading before speech > starts. > > Samuel
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Hello, Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. This firmware > is packaged under 'firmware-sof-signed'. For reference, you might want > to look at the ITP [1]. > > I tried it with my laptop. What happens is that the installer gets stuck > straight from the beginning, prior it can show any kind of GUI. All I > get is a black scree with the lines: > > Please wait while we probe your sound card(s)... Could you try with the following image: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/debian-sid-amd64-NETINST-1.iso It's supposed to have the firmware available for loading before speech starts. Samuel
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Raphael Hertzog, le lun. 22 mars 2021 14:27:24 +0100, a ecrit: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > > > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. > > > > Ah. So these should be getting supported by the firmware-enabled image > > of Debian: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ > > I don't think so. I meant: as a goal. I don't mean it's supposed to work. Samuel
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. > > Ah. So these should be getting supported by the firmware-enabled image > of Debian: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ I don't think so. This was initially reproduced in Kali and our image is firmware-enabled in the same way AFAIK. Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Hello, Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. Ah. So these should be getting supported by the firmware-enabled image of Debian: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ > And so on. I don't know if there's a timeout, There is a long 1 minute timeout yes. > I thought I could customize the ISO and add the firmware under the > '/firmware' directory, but it's not that easy. The step that probes > for sound cards is done in the initrd. Yes, that has to be there since we want speech before the first menu appears, and non-initrd stuff is not available at that point. > I don't have a solution to propose, I am merely reporting the issue in > case it's not a known issue yet. It wasn't known so far. So the concern is that currently the firmware-looking code doesn't happen soon enough, we'd need to run before the first menu for the speech synthesis to be able to synth it. Samuel
Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: a11y User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali Dear Maintainer, some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. This firmware is packaged under 'firmware-sof-signed'. For reference, you might want to look at the ITP [1]. As expected, selecting the "Speech Synthesis" option of the Debian Installer fails on computer that have such sound cards, since the required firmware is missing. I tried it with my laptop. What happens is that the installer gets stuck straight from the beginning, prior it can show any kind of GUI. All I get is a black scree with the lines: Please wait while we probe your sound card(s)... No sound card detected after 3 seconds... No sound card detected after 4 seconds... And so on. I don't know if there's a timeout, after 30 seconds I switched off the laptop. I thought I could customize the ISO and add the firmware under the '/firmware' directory, but it's not that easy. The step that probes for sound cards is done in the initrd. I don't have a solution to propose, I am merely reporting the issue in case it's not a known issue yet. Cheers, Arnaud [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960788
