Thursday, April 15, 2021

Arch Linux Sound Drive not detected

 Arch Linux Sound Drive not detected

 

I have bought a Dell Vostro 3000 series laptop. It was designed for the business use. Even though I have installed the Arch Linux for many different hardware platform, this is the first time I have encountered a problem with sound driver. Usually arch linux does not have issues with hardware drivers. It all configured properly with the installation. 

 I have tried several ways to rectify the sound driver issue. Even i have installed the alsa software as well. But the real solution was to disable the  dmic since it was issues with the Linux kernel version 5.5 and above. Earlier version of Linux kernel explicitly disable the dmic. 

 

Add new file in the modprobe to disable the kernel version.

/etc/modprobe.d/disable_dmic.conf 

options snd_hda_intel dmic_detect=0 

 Then reboot the Arch Linux machine. Below are the supporting links. 

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1887925#p1887925

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1888046#p1888046


If you need further reading about Arch Linux sound driver behavior below is a good reading.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/Troubleshooting#No_output

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