Hi Folks
Just a quick note to say that everything is now working and with the official sof files back in place. As I had some fun in the process, so I'll list what I did in case it amuses anyone (or even helps anyone; you never know).
Firstly, I'd remained on 6.1.0-18 (with the unofficial sof files) until yesterday and everything had been working well, but a couple of days ago an apt update couldn't retrieve a package (nothing to do with audio) from my chosen local mirror, so I reverted to the official Debian repositories and everything then updated as it should. Immediately afterwards, I noticed that my sound icon (on the panel) had a stroke through it (and it claimed I had no audio devices). At that point, I decided to replace the original sof files, but still no joy. Just to get some sound, I ran 'pulseaudio --start', then I spent some time digging into things.
The long and short of it was that pipewire seemed to be broken, so after stopping pulseaudio (via a reboot), I then tried reinstalling pipewire-audio and came up against dependency issues, then after a bit of thinking, I checked my repositories and noticed that I'd accidentally commented out deb 'http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports non-free contrib main', so removed the comment, updated apt, then I ran 'sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports pipewire' and rebooted; everything was then back to normal (and with mic and speaker boht working).
Interestingly, it looks like the Debian team have recently fixed the original problem as the internal microphone is now working just fine with the official sof files (the lack of the mic was why I'd resorted to the unofficial sof files to fix it) so that's very cool.
All the best folks,
Briain
Just a quick note to say that everything is now working and with the official sof files back in place. As I had some fun in the process, so I'll list what I did in case it amuses anyone (or even helps anyone; you never know).
Firstly, I'd remained on 6.1.0-18 (with the unofficial sof files) until yesterday and everything had been working well, but a couple of days ago an apt update couldn't retrieve a package (nothing to do with audio) from my chosen local mirror, so I reverted to the official Debian repositories and everything then updated as it should. Immediately afterwards, I noticed that my sound icon (on the panel) had a stroke through it (and it claimed I had no audio devices). At that point, I decided to replace the original sof files, but still no joy. Just to get some sound, I ran 'pulseaudio --start', then I spent some time digging into things.
The long and short of it was that pipewire seemed to be broken, so after stopping pulseaudio (via a reboot), I then tried reinstalling pipewire-audio and came up against dependency issues, then after a bit of thinking, I checked my repositories and noticed that I'd accidentally commented out deb 'http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports non-free contrib main', so removed the comment, updated apt, then I ran 'sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports pipewire' and rebooted; everything was then back to normal (and with mic and speaker boht working).
Interestingly, it looks like the Debian team have recently fixed the original problem as the internal microphone is now working just fine with the official sof files (the lack of the mic was why I'd resorted to the unofficial sof files to fix it) so that's very cool.
All the best folks,
Briain
Statistics: Posted by Briain — 2024-07-02 12:21