No sound on gpd pocket 3

[anthony tonitch]

FWIW, I did installed your branch kernel and the sound wasn't working,
however shutting down my computer made a segfault error but this is
the first time I'm compilling a kernel by myself so It could really be
my fault here!

Le mar. 25 janv. 2022 à 17:12, anthony tonitch <d.tonitch at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> I made the isuue here https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/3393
>
> I will be happy to test and give you feedback but I'm currently not at
> my home and downloading takes forever
> I will try this as soon as I can
>
> can I get you any info on my bios ? as you might have seen on the
> first sent mail, there is some screen capture of my bios with things I
> though was relevant
> but maybe I have to look elsewhere ?
>
> Le mar. 25 janv. 2022 à 16:41, Pierre-Louis Bossart
> <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com> a écrit :
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/25/22 03:07, anthony tonitch wrote:
> > > Le lun. 24 janv. 2022 à 20:02, Pierre-Louis Bossart
> > > <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com> a écrit :
> > >> ah, now it's starting to make sense.
> > >>
> > >> I am afraid you have the ES8316 codec, or one of its variants.
> > >> /sys/bus/acpi/devices/ESSX8326:00/status         15
> > >>
> > >> so no you don't want to use options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1 but
> > >>
> > >> options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=3
> > >>
> > >> The auto-detection don't work because we use a different codec HID for
> > >> the driver selection
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>         {
> > >>                 .flags = FLAG_SOF,
> > >>                 .device = 0x5a98,
> > >>                 .codec_hid = "ESSX8336",
> > >>         },
> > >>
> > >> as well as the machine driver selection
> > >>
> > >>         {
> > >>                 .id = "ESSX8336",
> > >>                 .drv_name = "sof-essx8336",
> > >>                 .sof_tplg_filename = "sof-glk-es8336.tplg",
> > >>         },
> > >>
> > >> This is really a problematic set of devices, where absolutely all
> > >> possible I2S links have been used, along with GPIO settings and DMICs.
> > >>
> > >> Please file a bug on https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues so
> > >> that we can keep track of this and suggest solution.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
> > >
> > > I will file the bug issue later in the day but I have two question here,
> > >
> > > 1. does the dsp_driver=3 is supposed to work then because it doesn't
> > > seems to ^^ maybe I did it wrong but here is the alsa info again if
> > > you see anything
> > > http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=847cdba9058170337515f57b460ed7bcae964af7
> > >
> > > 2. Because it works for everyone else and not for me, does this mean
> > > the chip is different and then that I have a "faulty one"? I will
> > > obviously still try to make the sound work if I can but at least I can
> > > contact gpd hk for an explaination
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for your quick response!
> >
> > All the solutions we suggested will not work because of a change in your
> > BIOS. We've only see "ESSX8336" so far and hard-coded this value, now
> > the BIOS writers in their infinite wisdom chose a different HID
> > (ESSX8326) which breaks all the existing matching.
> >
> > if you can install a new kernel, please try and provide feedback on
> > https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/pull/3338, where I added support
> > for more BIOS variations of the same device. I don't have any hardware
> > to test so have to crowd-source the tests to the community, thanks for
> > your understanding if this isn't a turn-key solution.