Alwyn Barry

So near, but so far ... such a pity because it has gone from no sound card to at least seeing it and not having any errors reported on dmesg....

BTW, it's worth updating https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/getting_started/intel_debug/suggestions.html ... At present it points to your GitHub to solve ES8336 problems. But if you're not working on them any more then this SOF page...

Thanks @tshipenchko Sadly a problem in Ubuntu 23.04 Pipewire is the default sound system. [Possibly] As a result we get the error: `amixer: Cannot find the given element from control...

@tshipenchko Which file for that setting to disable the alsa bridge? It's not in the format of pipewire.conf and don't recognise which file it may be from. I _think_ it's...

@tshipenchko Thanks for your help. I can't try NixOS because my laptop is for 'normal use' rather than development or trialing distros - although you can roll back NixOS it's...

@tshipenchko PS ... I have tried all Quirk variations ... no joy, apart from using Bit 4 (of 8) 'SOF_ES8336_SPEAKERS_EN_GPIO1_QUIRK' _always_ returns it to Dummy Output, and Bit 7 (of...

@tshipenchko The article on Quirks is at the end of: `https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/getting_started/intel_debug/suggestions.html` I'm not sure that it's all that useful though! Re. laptop - yeah, but it's an amazing laptop for...