Sound on Thinkpad running Endeavour not working

General system Newbie
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I have a 7th gen X1 carbon Thinkpad running Endeavour that doesn’t play sound. In the volume area, it says 'no input or output devices found. See this image:
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When the Thinkpad was fresh out of the box (running windows), the mic and speakers did work. How should I approach this?

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moving to newbie section…

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What does alsamixer show?

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What do you mean? I can’t do alsamixer -D because the computer doesn’t detect any devices. I’m not familiar with alsamixer.

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If you type in alsamixer does it not show anything?

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cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

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what does inxi -A show

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System:    Kernel: 5.6.3-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.1 Distro: EndeavourOS 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20R1000RUS v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20R1000RUS v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: N2QET17W (1.11 ) date: 11/27/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.3 Wh condition: 52.0/51.0 Wh (102%) 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500 4: 500 5: 500 6: 500 7: 500 8: 500 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel driver: sof-audio-pci 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.3-arch1-1 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9462 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e 
           IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 89.60 GiB (37.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB256HBHQ-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 216.86 GiB used: 89.30 GiB (41.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.84 GiB used: 304.7 MiB (1.8%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 312 Uptime: 1d 5h 33m Memory: 15.31 GiB used: 2.20 GiB (14.4%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.1.03
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Audio: Device-1: Intel driver: sof-audio-pci

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dmesg | grep snd
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[    3.316069] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040380
[    3.316463] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SOF driver
[    3.533955] snd_soc_skl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040380
[    3.542347] snd_soc_skl 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SOF driver
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Try this.

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/dsp-fix.conf

add the following line in the file

options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1

To save the file ctrl + o =enter

To exit ctrl + x

Then reboot

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Ok. (I like vim though)

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I don’t know how to use vim… :laughing: I like nano

Edit: So just create this file and add the line and save and reboot.
I’m not sure it will work? But try it!

/etc/modprobe.d/dsp-fix.conf

Add

options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1

save & reboot

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Ok.
Edit: The speakers work now, thanks.

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Woo hoo! :rofl:

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Hm, the sound output now works (through the speakers), but the input doesn’t work. It’s not detecting anything from the mic.

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from Imgflip Meme Generator

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Okay …i read that’s an issue too. Hmm. Let me read some stuff & see if i can help.

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Ok, thanks.