Arch Linux

Description:

Hardware:

cribari@darwin4 ~ $ dmesg | grep "XPS 13"
[ 0.000000] DMI: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0310JH, BIOS A07 11/11/2015

i.e., 9343 model with Intel i7, touchscreen, 3200 x 1800 screen resolution, Broadcom wireless.

Details on this machine: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(2015)

Kernel 4.5.3 (Arch Linux):

cribari@darwin4 ~ $ uname -a
Linux darwin4 4.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 7 20:43:57 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The problem persists with kernel 4.5.4-1.

I have sound when I boot the computer, but dmesg informs:

[ 1.453753] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: Direct firmware load for intel/IntcPP01.bin failed with error -2
[ 1.453755] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: fw image intel/IntcPP01.bin not available(-2)

I extracted "IntcPP01.bin" from a copy of a Windows Realtek Audio driver (9343_Audio_Driver_X22K2_WN32_7422.118.0_A01.EXE) and placed it in /usr/lib/firmware/intel/IntcPP01.bin . It did not help. The same crashes (that are detailed below) took place after that.

Sound is gone after a while, usually when I play YouTube videos or streaming radio from

http://cbn.globoradio.globo.com/

using Google Chrome or another browser (e.g., Vivaldi). (I mostly use Chrome.) Usually, that happens when I stop the video or streaming radio and try to resume it later.

When sound is gone, dmesg informs:

[24294.494682] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: error: audio DSP boot timeout IPCD 0x0 IPCX 0x0
[24294.811357] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ipc: --message timeout-- ipcx 0x83000000 isr 0x00000000 ipcd 0x00000000 imrx 0x7fff0000
[24294.811360] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: error: stream commit failed
[24294.811375] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ASoC: haswell-pcm-audio hw params failed: -110
[24295.118072] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ipc: --message timeout-- ipcx 0x83000000 isr 0x00000000 ipcd 0x00000000 imrx 0x7fff0000
[24295.118076] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: error: stream commit failed
[24295.118082] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ASoC: haswell-pcm-audio hw params failed: -110

Also:

[24304.578677] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ipc: --message timeout-- ipcx 0x83000000 isr 0x00000000 ipcd 0x00000000 imrx 0x7fff0000
[24304.578693] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: error: stream commit failed
[24304.578695] System PCM: error: failed to commit stream -110
[24304.578698] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ASoC: haswell-pcm-audio hw params failed: -110
[24304.578700] System PCM: ASoC: hw_params FE failed -110
[24304.882091] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ipc: --message timeout-- ipcx 0x83000000 isr 0x00000000 ipcd 0x00000000 imrx 0x7fff0000
[24304.882102] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: error: stream commit failed
[24304.882107] System PCM: error: failed to commit stream -110
[24304.882112] haswell-pcm-audio haswell-pcm-audio: ASoC: haswell-pcm-audio hw params failed: -110
[24304.882117] System PCM: ASoC: hw_params FE failed -110

In order to have audio, I am having to compile my kernels with

CONFIG_ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE_POSSIBLE=y

I run Gnome 3.20 + GDM. Interestingly, the crashes seem to be caused by GDM. When I switch to LightDM the crashes stop.

GDM starts an instance of pulseaudio. I followed the suggestion here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_headset#Gnome_with_GDM

That is, created /var/lib/gdm/.config/pulse/client.conf (I did not have this file) with

autospawn = no
daemon-binary = /bin/true

and

sudo -ugdm mkdir -p /var/lib/gdm/.config/systemd/user
sudo -ugdm ln -s /dev/null /var/lib/gdm/.config/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket

I rebooted the computer and there was no longer a pulseaudio process for gdm. Nonetheless, the crashes (with I2S sound) persist.

We should be able to kill pulseaudio and to manually restart it, as described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Disabling_automatic_spawning_of_PulseAudio_server

However, that does not work for me. After a

$ pulseaudio --kill

pulseaudio is restarted:

cribari@darwin4 ~ $ ps aux | grep pulse
cribari 31650 0.0 0.1 497700 11432 ? S<sl 12:30 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
cribari 31869 0.0 0.0 10764 2228 pts/1 S+ 12:41 0:00 grep --colour=auto pulse
cribari@darwin4 ~ $ pulseaudio --kill
cribari@darwin4 ~ $ ps aux | grep pulse
cribari 31873 1.6 0.1 498768 11892 ? S<sl 12:41 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
cribari 31880 0.0 0.0 10764 2280 pts/1 S+ 12:41 0:00 grep --colour=auto pulse

A discussion about that can be found at
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30355771-Even-if-autospawn-no-PulseAudio-always-starts-gdm

I have a friend that has the same machine. My machine:

cribari@darwin4 ~ $ dmesg | grep "XPS 13"
[ 0.000000] DMI: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0310JH, BIOS A07 11/11/2015

His machine:

[raydonal@buda ~] $ dmesg | grep "XPS 13"
[ 0.000000] DMI: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0310JH, BIOS A03 03/25/2015

Notice we both have the 0310JH 9343 configuration. He was experiencing the same problems with Fedora + Gnome + GDM.
Last week he installed Arch + Cinnamon + LightDM and now his I2S audio works flawless.

See the discussion in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48936 . It was asked there for a new bug report to be filed.

I should also point out that I filed this bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118051 . I did not get
any meaningful feedback there so far.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

alsa-firmware v. 1.0.29-1
alsa-lib v. 1.1.1-1
alsa-oss v. 1.0.28-1
alsa-plugins v. 1.1.1-1
alsa-tools v. 1.1.0-2
alsa-utils v. 1.1.1-1
lib32-alsa-lib v. 1.1.1-1
lib32-alsa-plugins v. 1.1.1-1
pavucontrol v. 3.0-4
pulseaudio v. 8.0-3
pulseaudio-alsa v. 2-3
pulseaudio-bluetooth v. 8.0-3
pulseaudio-equalizer v. 8.0-3
pavucontrol v. 3.0-4
lib32-libpulse v. 8.0-1
libcanberra-pulse v. 0.30-6
gdm 3.20-1
libgdm 3.20-1

* config and/or log files etc.

The only special configuration I have is

cribari@darwin4 /etc/modprobe.d $ cat alsa-base.conf
options snd_hda_intel index=1,0

The crashes continue to happen when I remove this file.

Steps to reproduce:

Run Arch Linux on a Dell XPS 13 9343 with Intel i7, touchscreen, 3200 x 1800 resolution and Broadcom wireless
with Gnome + GDM.