[BUG] Dell Inspiron 3501 (Tiger Lake) - No analog audio output, only HDMI detected
From: Enrique Orozco
Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 21:35:53 EST
Dear sound/ALSA maintainers,
I am reporting an issue with audio on a Dell Inspiron 3501 laptop. The
system detects the Intel HDA controller but only HDMI outputs appear;
the internal speakers and headphone jack are not detected at all.
System Information:
- Laptop: Dell Inspiron 3501
- Audio Controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology
Audio Controller [8086:a0c8] (rev 20)
- Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0a25]
- Kernel: 6.18.12-1-MANJARO (also tested with 6.18.12)
- Distribution: Manjaro (Arch-based)
Problem Description:
After boot, only HDMI audio outputs are available. The internal speakers
and headphone jack do not appear in ALSA or PulseAudio/PipeWire. The
kernel detects the audio hardware but fails to initialize the analog
codec.
Observations:
1. `aplay -l` shows only HDMI devices (devices 3,7,8,9)
2. No analog output device (device 0) appears
3. The codec detected is only "Intel Tigerlake HDMI" - no analog codec
4. The following error appears in dmesg:
`snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: core_mask 1 power off failed: -110`
5. Attempted various snd_hda_intel model parameters (dell-headset-multi,
dell-headset-dock, generic) with no success
6. Forcing legacy driver with `snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1` also
didn't help
Reproduction Steps:
1. Boot any recent Linux kernel (tested with 5.15.x and 6.18.x)
2. Check audio outputs with `aplay -l`
3. Observe only HDMI outputs are present
4. No sound from internal speakers or headphone jack
Expected Behavior:
The system should detect and provide both analog output (internal
speakers/headphone) and HDMI output.
Additional Information:
- ALSA diagnostics:
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=8eb23206a6d8aa76d24136f224b1ad93dab53651
- lspci -vvv output:
lspci -vvv -s 00:1f.3
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound
Technology Audio Controller (rev 20) (prog-if 00 [HDA compatible])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0a25
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 153
Region 0: Memory at 6001138000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 4: Memory at 6001000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl, snd_hda_intel
- dmesg audio-related messages:
sudo dmesg | grep -i -E "snd|hda|sof|audio|alsa" 1|1 ✘
[sudo] password for enriqueop:
[ 0.033006] software IO TLB: area num 8.
[ 0.305063] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[ 0.305064] software IO TLB: mapped [mem
0x000000004f173000-0x0000000053173000] (64MB)
[ 0.364632] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows
Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[ 0.364639] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation
UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[ 2.989645] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007
Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx>
[ 3.235754] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 3.235948] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops
intel_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[ 3.279312] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input16
[ 3.279365] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input17
[ 3.279404] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input18
[ 3.279443] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input19
lsmod | grep -E "snd|hda|sof|audio" ✔ 7s
snd_seq_dummy 12288 0
snd_hrtimer 12288 1
snd_seq 135168 7 snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_seq
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi 28672 1
snd_hda_intel 69632 1
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl 12288 0
snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl 20480 1 snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_sof_intel_hda_generic 40960 2
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
soundwire_intel 94208 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_sof_intel_hda_sdw_bpt 24576 1 soundwire_intel
snd_sof_intel_hda_common 204800 4
snd_sof_intel_hda_sdw_bpt,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
snd_soc_hdac_hda 24576 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_intel_hda_mlink 36864 4
snd_sof_intel_hda_sdw_bpt,soundwire_intel,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_sof_intel_hda 20480 2
snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 61440 1 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi
snd_sof_pci 24576 3
snd_sof_intel_hda_generic,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
snd_sof_xtensa_dsp 16384 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_sof 479232 6
snd_sof_intel_hda_sdw_bpt,snd_sof_pci,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic,snd_sof_intel_hda,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
snd_sof_utils 16384 1 snd_sof
snd_soc_acpi_intel_match 143360 3
snd_sof_intel_hda_generic,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
snd_soc_acpi_intel_sdca_quirks 12288 1 snd_soc_acpi_intel_match
snd_soc_acpi 16384 2
snd_soc_acpi_intel_match,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_soc_sdca 98304 2 snd_soc_acpi_intel_sdca_quirks,soundwire_bus
snd_soc_avs 262144 0
snd_soc_hda_codec 28672 1 snd_soc_avs
snd_hda_ext_core 36864 7
snd_sof_intel_hda_sdw_bpt,snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_hda_codec,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda_mlink,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_hda_codec 217088 7
snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_soc_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda,snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi
snd_hda_core 147456 10
snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_soc_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda,snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi
snd_intel_dspcfg 45056 5
snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_intel_sdw_acpi 16384 2 snd_intel_dspcfg,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic
snd_hwdep 24576 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_soc_core 434176 7
snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_hda_codec,soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_soc_sdca,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda
snd_compress 32768 2 snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_core
ac97_bus 12288 1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm_dmaengine 20480 1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm 212992 14
snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_soc_sdca,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_compress,snd_sof_intel_hda_generic,snd_soc_core,snd_sof_utils,snd_hda_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_timer 57344 3 snd_seq,snd_hrtimer,snd_pcm
snd 159744 16
snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof,snd_soc_sdca,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
soundcore 16384 1 snd
lspci | grep -i audio ✔
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound
Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep -i "Codec" 2>/dev/null
Codec: Intel Tigerlake HDMI
- Current modprobe configuration: options snd_hda_intel model=dell-headset-multi
cat /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf | grep -i snd ✔
options snd_hda_intel model=dell-headset-multi
What I've tried:
- Various model parameters (dell-headset-multi, 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Forcing legacy driver with dsp_driver=1
- Different kernel versions (5.15, 6.18)
- Checking alsamixer (only HDMI controls appear)
- Updating the BIOS to the latest from Dell
This appears to be a codec detection/initialization issue. The hardware
exists but the analog codec is not being properly detected or initialized.
Please let me know if you need any additional information or if I can
provide any further debugging data.
Thank you for your time and effort maintaining ALSA.
Best regards,
Enrique Orozco