No sound on gpd pocket 3

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 1/24/22 10:52, anthony tonitch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem I guess related to sof... I already asked on the irc
> #alsa at libera.chat and gnarface advised me to come and ask on this
> mailing list!

using "options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1" to avoid using SOF isn't
very helpful on an AMD platform :-)

08:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition
Audio Controller [10de:10f0] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: PNY Device [196e:11a0]
0a:00.3 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family
17h (Models 00h-0fh) HD Audio Controller [1022:1457]
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:86c7]

Best of luck!

> 
> I am struggling to make the sound of my gpd pocket 3 to work on linux
> (archlinux to be precise)! In fact, the sound is not supposed to work
> out of the box as other users tested it before me! but they all had
> the solution to set the dsp_driver and this didn't worked for me!
> I checked several times to see if the module was loaded properly and
> yes it is (as you can also check in the alsa-info at the end of the mail)!
> 
> If I do aplay -l I get a bunch of hdmi connection that is not working
> at all! I'm really lost here and I don't even know what to look for
> anymore
> 
> The sound works great on windows so This doens't seems to be hardware problem ?!
> and I tried to plug an usb headset which give me sound so I doesn't
> seems to be config related either ?! (tho the jack doesn't work)
> 
> I asked on several places already. I post the different links here in
> case you want to check but I don't have any response to any post
> unfortunately!
> 
> - Post on Archlinux BBS: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=273044
> - Post on subreddit GPDPocket:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/s31qi8/gpd_p3_no_sound_linux/
> 
> - Screenshot and bios picture of maybe relevant informations:
>     - https://imgur.com/a/DouSB3m
>     - https://imgur.com/a/K232PLJ
> 
> I hope there is enough informations to help me debug this but if you
> need anything I can provide it! this is a small pc and I'm usualy
> quarrying it around!
> I know this is better to send mail but if you need me to chat for any
> reason (it would be easier for instance) I'm usually hanging on the
> libera.chat irc as tonitch you can pm or tag me on #alsa
> 
> Here is the alsa-info.sh :
> http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=6ddb669a19086cebdb121c97c25bbdccb98e856d
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> PS: Ubuntu mate have released their official pocket 3 distribution and
> I tried it but the sound didn't worked either, here is the alsa-info
> In case this help ?! :
> http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=df4c183fd00cec224006ec8caa228705399ad873