On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Default User <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello to all! > > I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 laptop. Came > with Windows (ugh!) preinstalled. > My old Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3542 laptop (made in 2014) just died. > So this one should work, right? > > No. > > Unfortunately the new 3511 is quite different from the old 3542. It > mostly "sort of" works. > But the sound will not work at all on Debian. > > Not wanting to immediately remove Windows and thus make it unreturnable, I > have been trying to run it using a > Debian 11 "Live" install USB thumb drive (Cinnamon desktop). No sound at > all. > > But . . . it DOES work when running the computer from a USB thumb drive > of the most recent version of > SystemRescue! So, it CAN work (somehow) on (some) Linux setups. > > Note: System Rescue is now based upon Arch Linux. > > Using the Debian 11 USB thumb drive, I was not able to do a complete > update and upgrade - not enough room on the > USB thumb drive. I was able to install the pavucontrol package, which I > recall has sometimes helped in the past. > But still no sound. > > The dumbed-down make-believe BIOS on the new computer lists the Audio > Controller as: > "Cirrus Logic CS8409". > > SystemRescue reports under PCI devices: > Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller. > "Driver in Use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, > snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl". > > In Debian 11 "Live", lspci -nn reports: > "00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology > Audio Controller [8086:a0c8] (rev 20)". > > I poked around in the Debian wiki about fixing sound problems, but to be > honest, much of it is over my head. > > So . . . any advice on how to get sound to work on this computer? > Or, failing that, any suggestions for a good (preferable affordable) > laptop that plays nice with Debian? > > I guess I could try to use Arch or some other Linux distribution, but I > have used Debian for many years, and would > really hate changing to something else. > Debian 11 is showing its age. Try installing Bookworm! https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
