I did some more digging into the code to find out what goes boink. For comparison I took my wife's desktop wich has a Cannon Lake chipset as well along with a working a ALC892 AVS device. It seems there is a codec mask issue selected in the chip->bus struct. Inside the function static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx *chip) of hda_intel.c the bus->codec_mask on my wife's pc contains the integer value "5" and both ALC892 and the HDMI is found. On my device it is "4" and only the HDMI is found. /* create codec instances */ if (bus->codec_mask) { err = azx_probe_codecs(chip, azx_max_codecs[chip->driver_type]); if (err < 0) goto out_free; } After forcing the falue before probing: "bus->codec_mask = 5;" the ALC892 is finally detected on my system and I have sound! alsa-info below: Please pardon the trash printk's in the log ;-) http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=057aac1a0e9591de3847dca5ebc424dd65c8a221 I'll do some more digging into it next week but it would probably save tons of time if someone could point me is the right direction where to look further? Gesendet: Mittwoch, 09. Februar 2022 um 17:47 Uhr Von: dmummenschanz@xxxxxx An: "Pierre-Louis Bossart" <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Aw: Re: Re: Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (ALC892) not detected by kernel driver snd_intel_dspcfg: dsp_driver=1 was a leftover from testing. I' ve removed all parameters, add added the debug options you've asked. [1]http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=6e30e9f598bd2f03b2f5cff0df261f78719ea2 9d Some googling reveals that others suffer from the same problen on the same laptop as well. Some report that the device appears after pci-bus rescanning however that did not work in my case so I agree there might be an issue with probing the relatek device. Unfortunately I'm not a kernel dev so I don't even know where to start looking however I'm happy to investigate with your help. Gesendet: Mittwoch, 09. Februar 2022 um 16:51 Uhr Von: "Pierre-Louis Bossart" <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> An: dmummenschanz@xxxxxx, alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (ALC892) not detected by kernel driver On 2/9/22 01:14, dmummenschanz@xxxxxx wrote: > The information about the codec is based on the string windows > provides: > > HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0892&SUBSYS_15580351&REV_1003\4&16AF2B56&& > 0001 > > Here is the alsa-info output for the 5.16 mainline kernel: > > [1][2]http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=38c48cd24dc4ba9a9487dd96f857120cc9c e43 67 The use of this option is not clear: snd_intel_dspcfg: dsp_driver=1 This means you are trying to force the use of the legacy driver. is this intentional? Can you remove it and see what happens? The results show you don't have a driver bound to the PCI device, so likely something goes boink in the probe. It wouldn't hurt to enable dynamic debug as well. options snd_hda_intel dyndbg=+p options snd_intel_dspcfg dyndbg=+p References 1. [3]http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=38c48cd24dc4ba9a9487dd96f857120cc9ce43 67 References 1. http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=6e30e9f598bd2f03b2f5cff0df261f78719ea29d 2. http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=38c48cd24dc4ba9a9487dd96f857120cc9ce43 3. http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=38c48cd24dc4ba9a9487dd96f857120cc9ce4367