Bug 1267756 - Audio is broken on Dell XPS 13 as of Linux 4.2+
Summary: Audio is broken on Dell XPS 13 as of Linux 4.2+
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1255070
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-30 21:26 UTC by Mykola Dvornik
Modified: 2015-10-01 18:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-10-01 15:17:06 UTC
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Description Mykola Dvornik 2015-09-30 21:26:40 UTC
Description of problem:

As of Linux 4.2+ the supported ACPI revision reported back to BIOS is set statically to '2' to match Windows behaviour. This breaks audio on Dell XPS 13 , since BIOS forces ASoC to operate in I2S mode that even Linux 4.3 does not support properly yet.

There is a work around that allows the reported ACPI revision to be forced via kernel parameter http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2015-May/092051.html.

So it would be nice to have 

CONFIG_ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE_POSSIBLE=y 

added to the Linux 4.2+ builds
 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Linux 4.2+

How reproducible:

Persistent

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Operate FC23 using 4.1.x kernel and make sure that ASoC is in HDA mode.
2. Update kernel to 4.2+.

Actual results:

Audio is broken, i.e. only built-in speakers work. No MIC, crappy sound out of the headphone output. Toggling things in alasmixer doesn't help much.

Expected results:

Fully working audio system.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Justin M. Forbes 2015-10-01 15:17:06 UTC
The proper solution here is to update your firmware to revision A05 or newer, this makes the ACPI override unneccesary.

Comment 2 Mykola Dvornik 2015-10-01 18:23:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1255070 ***


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