On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:37 PM Anssi Saari <[email protected]> wrote: > Default User <[email protected]> writes: > > > 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)". > > This isn't new sound hardware so should work in Debian 11. > > With a quick look, you probably need the non-free package > firmware-sof-signed but that isn't included in the Debian 11 live. You > could try an image which contains those things from > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/ > > Or, if you're familiar in Debian, maybe you can install the > firmware-sof-signed pacakge in the live system you already have? I'm not > sure if that's possible there, I haven't used Debian Live in a while. > > > [UPDATE:]
I did try Debian 11.6 "live" . Again, No sound. BTW, sudo apt show firmware-sof-signed shows firmware-sof-signed as installed for both Debian Live 11.0 and Debian Live 11.6. : ---------- [From Debian 11.6]: Package: firmware-sof-signed Version: 1.7-1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/kernel Source: firmware-sof Maintainer: Mark Pearson <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 10.1 MB Homepage: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin Download-Size: unknown APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status Description: Intel SOF firmware - signed Provides the Intel SOF audio firmware and topology needed for audio functionality on some Intel system. . This package contains the pre-built and signed binaries. ---------- I have not yet tried Bookworm, as I do not know where to find a "Live" image of that, and again, I do not want to install it (yet) on the computer's internal SSD, since that would make the computer unreturnable. Perhaps I could use the Bookworm weekly build to install to an external usb device, and try running it from there, to verify that the sound does work on the computer, before installing to the internal ssd. Is that feasible? And of course recommendations for a current laptop (preferably reasonably priced) that actual experience shows does work well with Debian would be welcome.
