18.04 audio (Realtek ALC3254) fails on new Dell G3 15 3590

Thanks!

I had no sounds (speakers and headphones) in my Dell Latitude 3510 with Realtek ALC3204 after installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I have tried a lot of different solutions without any result

After all your solution also worked for me!

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and append snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0 to its end.

For example:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0"

Update grub configuration

sudo update-grub

--- UPDATED VERSION ---

As of Nov. 29 of 2020, update on Ubuntu 20.04 with latest kernel of 5.8.0-25-generic is working as expected with all internal sound working. Basically if you modified your grub with snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0, erase that or other modifications you made and keep the system fresh.

Update and upgrade with apt and now it is working with the internal mics and speakers.

So basically, update your vanilla 20.04 with latest kernel and updates and should work.

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THIS IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME,

DELL G3 3590 is certified in Ubuntu 18.04 ONLY. It's very weird that later versions break functionality in this laptop.

The Dell G3 3590 version I have is the revised one (2019 version) but I guess the older 3590 version should work as well.

Do not install Ubuntu 20.04 or other version except 18.04 on this notebook.

I just did a Fresh install and at first sound wasn't working, then a Automatic Update at first boot (it's common when fresh install to get an update) added the sound and microphone working. If not, just apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Then I added additional drivers for Nvidia and is working nice.

UPDATE On February aprox. a new version of ubuntu was released (18.04.4) and it has an optional upgrade called HWE that contains newer kernel and stuff. My solution worked but in some point, audio from the headphone jack was missing.

running sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04 solved this issue. So I have fresh install ubuntu 18.04.4, updated it and finally updated to HWE and have all sound working! internal and external as well.

WHAT A RIDE!!!

I had a similar issue, probably around the same time - No audio in laptop speakers or headphones, but sound plays in screen (HDMI connection), and it was resolved in about 2 months, on its own. My analysis can be found in this answer.

The question is - What was the kernel version at the time you probably started getting this issue? You can check that by using

zgrep 'install linux-headers' /var/log/dpkg.log* | sort | cut -f1,2,4 -d' '

If the timeline of this issue matches mine, as in you started experiencing issue with 4.15.0-99-generic kernel update, or close, then I would suggest going back to the original kernel version (that you had before manually installing 5.5.9) and update to the latest kernel that is available for your system, instead of a particular kernel, i.e. 5.5.9, that you installed to resolve the issue but may or may not be compatible with your system, yet.

Im using Ubuntu 18.04 Dell G3 3590 i7 series

I just follow the instruction here and fixes my problem

Edit /etc/default/grub

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and append snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0 to its end. For example:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0"

Update grub configuration

sudo update-grub

Reboot

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1218058/ubuntu-19-10-audio-driver-issue/1238287#1238287

same problem here. Using Linux Mint,18.

The kernel I've installed was the 5.0, and the sound worked fine.

When I upgraded to 5.3, the audio stopped working.

Comparing the modules that was loaded in each kernel (lspci -k) I noticed that audio module was not the same, the kernel 5.3 was using sof-audio-pci driver.

Searching, I discovered that solution:

I've just got new HP Spectre x360 15-DF1033DX, installed Arch and got stuck with Audio. No output/input, no sound.

I used to change /etc/default/grub to have this line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi='!Windows 2013' acpi_osi='!Windows 2012' snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0 "

Then run in terminal

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Then reboot.

Link of the solutuion: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251157

Same problem here. Debian 10 installed on a Dell G3 15 3590 with audio issues using Realtek ALC3254. I've found a page with a lot of information . The best I've found so far to fix it is in the page below (in french but easily translated) but I didn't succeed, I think I screwed up some steps...

https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/audio_intel_hda#dell

If the first elementary tests did not fix you audio, they suggest to: modify the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf or if it doesnt exist I've found that you can also create a local.conf file with sudo privilege here /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf

=> add the following line at the end of the file: options snd-hda-intel model=headset-mic probe_mask=0x103

See the line: Inspiron 15-5578 | ALC3253 | options snd-hda-intel model=headset-mic probe_mask=0x103 (Fonctionne: haut-parleurs interne, mic. interne, sortie écouteurs. Ne fonctionne pas: entrée(mic) écouteur)

This is the best I've found so far to fix it.

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It is likely due to the Realtek driver not correctly working on Linux. But I don't know if it is possible to fix this driver on linux? who could do that ? where to ask ? I've tries to use bluetooth headset with microphone but it doesn't even want to configure it.

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Hope This will help a little bit ? Let me know

Bye