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[BUG] Huawei MateBook E 2023 (Alder Lake) no speaker sound (Conexant CX11970) #5777

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Hardware Environment

  • Laptop Model: Huawei MateBook E 2023
  • CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core (Alder Lake)
  • Audio Codec: Conexant CX11970
  • OS: Debian 12 (Wayland)

Description

The internal speakers produce no sound, while headphones (both 3.5mm jack and Type-C) work perfectly fine. The SOF driver loads properly, and PipeWire detects the speaker output, but no audio is coming out.

I strongly suspect this is a Smart Amp/ACPI Magic Sequence issue, very similar to what happened with the MateBook 14s (CX8070) in Issue #3350.

What I have tried

  1. Booted with standard SOF driver (Intel DSP enabled).
  2. Found from logs that the internal speaker pins are likely 0x1d and 0x26.
  3. Tried using hda-verb to send EAPD enable commands (0x70c 0x02) to pins 0x1d, 0x26, and other possible pins.
  4. Tried pulling up GPIO pins on NID 0x01 (0x715 0xff, etc.).
    None of the above brute-force methods woke up the amplifier. I believe the amplifier requires a specific undocumented I2C/ACPI sequence to turn on.

Logs and Diagnostics

Could you please advise if there is any specific ACPI DSDT method I should look for, or any testing patches I can try to compile? Thank you so much for your great work on the SOF project!

dmesg_matebook.txt

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