No sound after upgrade (dell xps)

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Small note for people wondering why there is no sound coming.
Looks like if you’re using latest kernel, you’re doomed to see the errors similar to this:

Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel: soundwire sdw-master-0-0: Program params failed: -22
Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel:  SDW0-Playback-SimpleJack: ASoC: error at snd_soc_link_prepare on SDW0-Playback-SimpleJack: -22
Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel: sdw_deprepare_stream: subdevice #0-Playback: inconsistent state state 1
Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel: soundwire sdw-master-0-0: Program transport params failed: -22
Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel: soundwire sdw-master-0-0: Program params failed: -22
Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel:  SDW0-Playback-SimpleJack: ASoC: error at snd_soc_link_prepare on SDW0-Playback-SimpleJack: -22
Sep 13 11:55:09 splinter kernel: sdw_deprepare_stream: subdevice #0-Playback: inconsistent state state 1

And as a result, no sound device will be available on your system.

I had to revert to previous generation instead of pinning nixpkgs to an older commit (thanks to the mythical nvidia build issues on mismatching kernel/driver versions). But you can try reverting to a previous commit.

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Small update; since it’s not included yet in the nixpkgs kernel, I rebuilt the kernel with the patch applied for now. Works OK.

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Thank you for this! This fixed audio for my dell xps 9320.

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Nice to hear!

I suspect the issue will be fully gone with new version, once this PR reaches nixos-24.05 channel (tracker) since the original fix has now including 6.11 label, but we’ll see.

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Looks like this is now live. I was able to use the latest kernel without the patch and have sound again.
As a bonus my headphone jack now finally senses when headphones are plugged in, and doesn’t just assume they’re always plugged in. This is on a Dell Latitude 9330.

Thank you for this interim fix gurkan!

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