Linux on Chuwi GemiBook

Laptops GemiBook
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After a fresh installation of Linux Mint on my laptop I notice that audio isn’t working, and I see dummy input/output. After this I had tried a lot of solutions.

After adding

options snd-hda-intel model=generic

in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf I could see only HDMI output. This mean that headphone and integrated speaker are unavailable.

This seems like that SO can’t know about internal speaker, microphone and audio jack.

How could I fix?

My system information:
https://termbin.com/kr2e
dmesg -l err,warn

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Many newer Chuwi notebooks use an Everest codec chip that is still unsupported in linux. Some efforts are ongoing in supporting it. See [BUG] No local devices (speakers/headphones) on N4120 tablet (Chuwi Hi10X) · Issue #2955 · thesofproject/linux · GitHub

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There were a LOT of regressions in the 5.11 kernels, can you try a different kernel? I have run both Debian w/ backports kernel (5.10) and currently run Arch w/ LTS kernel (5.10) on my GemiBook Pro and have no issues with sound.

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On Linux Mint I tried 5.11, 5.8 and 5.4 kernels. I’ll try other distribution. Thanks.

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I tried other distributions, but nothing happened.
Today, something strange has happened. I connect my headphones to randomly check if something has been changed (I don’t know why) and I heard some noise from the laptop speakers. Then I try to put my smartphone line out in the computer jack with an AUX cable. And I can hear the sound of the smartphone thought the speakers. When I change the volume, nothing happened. Why? It could be some physical problem of the sound card?

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I’ll admit that DOES sound like it’s an actual failure with the soundcard to me.

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Hi, I have the same problem with Chuwi Gemibook Pro and Linux Ubuntu 20.04 (tried 21.04 and 18.04 - nothing). Has anyone come up with any solution?

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Gemibook Pro user also, also struggling with getting analog sound to work. I’ve posted some info on the MX Linux forum but no luck until now.

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So you have MX linux and still no sound? That’s odd, they must have changed the audio hardware from the Gen1 to Gen2 Gemibooks. I have a Gen1 Gemibook Pro, and run Debian 11 as my day-to-day OS with it and the audio worked out of the box.

Whatt’s the output of lspci | grep -i audio give?

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@tlmiller76
I’ve posted everything on that MX forum thread, but here it is

$ lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Audio
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor High Definition Audio [8086:3198] (rev 06)
	DeviceName: Onboard - Sound
	Subsystem: Device [1c6c:122a]

I’ve followed the bug report referenced by @callegar and found a pull request (https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/pull/2962) on sofproject github that seems to adress it. So now it is a question of waiting for the changes to arrive upstream to the kernel.

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Odd, I have the exact same device ID but mine works out of the box.

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Can you run hw-probe and post the link?
Mine is here - https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=f8735054b4
If it is indeed the same hardware, I’m going to be begging you for the exact config, including package versions for firmware-sof-signed, etc.

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Looks like everything except the class is identical…

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Indeed. And the only one indicated as “works” instead of “detected” on the lists of hardware with the same id (https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:8086-3198-1c6c-122a) also is class 04-03 like yours.
I’m tempted to install debian 11 to check.
What kernel version are you running?
Which firmware-sof-signed version?

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Kernel version is the base kernel. 5.10.0-8-amd64 (5.10.46-4)
firmware-sof-signed isn’t installed on my system.

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Thanks!
Can I abuse your patience and ask for the output of dmesg | grep -C1 -E 'ALSA|HDA|HDMI|snd[_-]|sound|hda.codec|hda.intel|sof[_-]' and of aplay -l?

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Yeah, no problem.

root@GemiBook:~# dmesg | grep -C1 -E 'ALSA|HDA|HDMI|snd[_-]|sound|hda.codec|hda.
intel|sof[_-]'
[    0.434929] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Dell-Video)
[    0.434929] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
[    0.434929] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-HPI-Hybrid-Graphics)
--
[    4.074082] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/L
NXVIDEO:00/input/input11
[    4.074379] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:0e.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_co
mponent_bind_ops [i915])
[    4.190759] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: base HW address: 34:c9:3d:ee:af:ed
--
[    4.211302] audit: type=1400 audit(1630780285.207:10): apparmor="STATUS" oper
ation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=517 comm="a
pparmor_parser"
[    4.252788] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC269VC: line_
outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[    4.252794] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0
/0x0/0x0)
[    4.252795] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x15/0x0/0x0/0x0                         /0x0)
[    4.252796] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    4.252797] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
[    4.252799] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:      Mic=0x18
[    4.252800] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:      Internal Mic=0x12
[    4.274705] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    4.301752] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sou                         nd/card0/input12
[    4.301855] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/soun                         d/card0/input13
[    4.305722] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.                         0/sound/card0/input14
[    4.306139] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00                         :0e.0/sound/card0/input15
[    4.306208] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00                         :0e.0/sound/card0/input16
[    4.306277] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00                         :0e.0/sound/card0/input17
[    4.306340] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00                         :0e.0/sound/card0/input18
[    4.306417] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:0                         0:0e.0/sound/card0/input19
[    5.896038] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 135x45
root@GemiBook:~# dmesg | grep -C1 -E 'ALSA|HDA|HDMI|snd[_-]|sound|hda.codec|hda.intel|sof[_-]'
[    0.434929] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Dell-Video)
[    0.434929] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
[    0.434929] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-HPI-Hybrid-Graphics)
--
[    4.074082] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input11
[    4.074379] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:0e.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    4.190759] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: base HW address: 34:c9:3d:ee:af:ed
--
[    4.211302] audit: type=1400 audit(1630780285.207:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=517 comm="apparmor_parser"
[    4.252788] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC269VC: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[    4.252794] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    4.252795] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x15/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    4.252796] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    4.252797] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
[    4.252799] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:      Mic=0x18
[    4.252800] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0:      Internal Mic=0x12
[    4.274705] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    4.301752] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input12
[    4.301855] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input13
[    4.305722] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input14
[    4.306139] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input15
[    4.306208] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input16
[    4.306277] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input17
[    4.306340] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input18
[    4.306417] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/sound/card0/input19
[    5.896038] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 135x45

root@GemiBook:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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I’ve tried to install Windows 10 again and there was no sound as well… But I don’t remember noticing this while checking the pre-installed Windows 10.
Can anybody with the same problem tell do they have sound if they install Windows 10 again?

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And how can I make sure that this pullrequest (https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/pull/2962) is really about my problem?

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Does the sound card show up with proper drivers installed in windows?