i’m new to nixos and installed it from the graphical iso (nixos-23.05) on a new Dell 9730 (Xps17). Unfortunately i dont get the sound to work.
Current state
lspci -v
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 51ca (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0bda
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 206, IOMMU group 18
Memory at 628d1e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at 628d000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
dmesg | grep -i audio
[ 33.564445] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[ 33.564459] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: SoundWire enabled on CannonLake+ platform, using SOF driver
[ 33.564469] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 33.564693] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040100
[ 34.885042] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[ 34.953270] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[ 34.967790] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: No SoundWire machine driver found
[ 34.967793] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 4
[ 34.967794] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: using HDA machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic now
[ 34.967796] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DMICs detected in NHLT tables: 0
[ 34.980495] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 2:2:0-57864
[ 34.980497] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:0
[ 34.980501] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: unknown sof_ext_man header type 3 size 0x30
[ 35.091510] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 2:2:0-57864
[ 35.091515] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:0
[ 35.099484] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Topology: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:0
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
hardware.firmware = with pkgs; [
sof-firmware
alsa-firmware
];
hardware.enableAllFirmware = true;
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
# Enable sound with pipewire.
sound.enable = true;
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
};
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
sof-firmware
alsa-firmware
alsa-topology-conf
alsa-ucm-conf
alsa-utils
];
pactl list cards
Card #46
Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic
Driver: alsa
Owner Module: n/a
Properties:
api.acp.auto-port = "false"
api.acp.auto-profile = "false"
api.alsa.card = "0"
api.alsa.card.longname = "DellInc.-XPS179730--0MW4M4"
api.alsa.card.name = "sof-hda-dsp"
api.alsa.path = "hw:0"
api.alsa.use-acp = "true"
api.dbus.ReserveDevice1 = "Audio0"
device.api = "alsa"
device.bus = "pci"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic"
device.description = "sof-hda-dsp"
device.enum.api = "udev"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic"
device.nick = "sof-hda-dsp"
device.plugged.usec = "35123807"
device.product.id = "0x51ca"
device.subsystem = "sound"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0"
device.vendor.id = "0x8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
media.class = "Audio/Device"
factory.id = "14"
client.id = "34"
object.id = "46"
object.serial = "46"
object.path = "alsa:pcm:0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "sof-hda-dsp"
alsa.long_card_name = "DellInc.-XPS179730--0MW4M4"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_soc_skl_hda_dsp"
device.string = "0"
Profiles:
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
pro-audio: Pro Audio (sinks: 3, sources: 0, priority: 1, available: yes)
Active Profile: pro-audio
aplay -lL
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pipewire
PipeWire Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 1: HDMI1 (*) []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 2: HDMI2 (*) []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 3: HDMI3 (*) []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
KDE sound menu view
What i’ve tried
- switching to
nixos-unstable - trying different
modprobeConfigaccording to other posts in this forum - adding alsa & sof packages (not sure if i need them)
- i’ve booted into Ubuntu live image (22.04.2 LTS, kernel 5.19.), output of
lspciwas the same… there, i had sound
I would love to switch to nixos. I appreciate every help. Thanks in advance.
