On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 10:03:29AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > First, a big thanks for the quick reply and help. > For the benefit of archives and the next potential person looking for > this, my debian system was lacking > alsa-ucm-conf > which for this soundcare is not optional at all. For debian users, the other problem is that a lot of firmware is missing 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/sof-tplg/sof-hda-generic-2ch.tplg failed with error -2 0000:00:1f.3: error: tplg request firmware intel/sof-tplg/sof-hda-generic-2ch.tplg failed err: -2 0000:00:1f.3: you may need to download the firmware from https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/ merlin:~# aptitude search '?broken-reverse-recommends(?installed)' > /tmp/missing merlin:~# grep firmware /tmp/missing p firmware-ath9k-htc - firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters p fwupd-amd64-signed - Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates (signed) merlin:~# grep sof /tmp/missing merlin:~# This means there are no relevant packages with 'sof' or 'firmware' that were recommended, and I had to find this: merlin:~# apt-get install -t unstable firmware-sof-signed That package was also missing and not suggested by any package is seems, but it was easier to find thanks to kernel dmesg. That said I had to look in ubuntu to see what package those files came from as the package was installed in that test ubuntu image I used and missing from my debian12 You know this, I'm sure just adding it to the thread for google indexing. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08