Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim Gen 8 14APU8 (Yoga Air 14s) sound drivers

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Alias for each other, haha, could I feel more dumb? :smiley:

Yep, I actually do like to see what’s going on under the hood, so I will go with CLI, can only help speed up my getting comfortable with it, and can’t go wrong with commands like that!

thanks for all the help. really appreciate it

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Hi @maximmedvedkov and @sunshine, I have just got the same or a very similar laptop to that one of Maxim (Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim 14APU8). I installed Fedora and reproduced your steps, together with using the alsa-controller service. The improvement was unbelievable, and the process was not very difficult. Very well explained, Darin!

Unfortunately, my laptop started to do very, very strong beeps on boot. Only happening when I booted from Fedora, regardless of setting the alsa-controller service enabled or disabled. With Windows everything was normal. So, I concluded that the issue relied on the firmware ( TAS2XXX38BB.bin and TIAS2781RCA4.bin files). I removed them and things got to work again as before: No beeps, unusable sound.

I removed Fedora and installed Ubuntu to check whether the sound was already fixed in Ubuntu, but it was not the case. Now sitting in Ubuntu 23.10 without sound, but happy to help trying to fix this issue.

Did any of you encountered such issues? Thanks a lot.

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hello, @txordi!
Yeah, I deal with that awful roar all the time. Since I haven’t quite solved the “standby mode” problem yet (although there is a solution in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2812#note_2190544 ), I have to shut down the computer every time at night. And I often hear the siren on startup. The sound does not always turn on, I have to reboot several times.

I periodically look through the forums thread where this issue was raised. Unfortunately there are no updates yet.

The Realtech drivers are old, the Ti driver and firmware are not in the kernel. It’s a sad picture. Partially solved the problem (many thanks to colleagues who were able to do this), but the sound is still much worse than in windows. And works very unstable.

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Thanks! I guess that the best we can do is to wait till the official kernel has all the necessary patches to make work our computer as it should with Linux…

BTW, speaking about the sound in Windows, do you hear a slight cracking noise when reproducing audio in W11? Specially, when reproducing quiet songs for a prolonged time… I am starting to panic and think that this crack comes as a consequence of this awful buzz… But most probably is just that the Windows drivers also leave much to be desired… I can not compare with the original audio because I honestly never used Windows for more than ~20min ‘till now. I am scared to turn it on with Linux :’)

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Didn’t pay attention to the crackling. Only used windows to update BIOS :))))

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Hi Maxim, sorry I only just realised that I totally hijacked this thread above. Apologies for that.
I am back reading it again and wondering if you can comment on how your sound is now?
I have a Yoga 7 16 (Model 16ARP8) - Mine says “Dolby Atmos” on it. Does yours?
Just wondering whether to try working out how to do the things you’ve tried to see if it improves my sound, extremely low volume.

PS IF I do go ahead and try to fix it, is it this post I need to try and follow? Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim Gen 8 14APU8 (Yoga Air 14s) sound drivers

thanks and hope to hear how your machine sounds now!

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Hello, Joey!

Dolby Atmos works in windows.
At the moment, there are no “boxed solutions” yet.
Lenovo is releasing new laptops with similar audio solutions, which may bring more attention to the linux community from Lenovo driver developers.

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Thanks, grateful if you could confirm if you managed to improve your audio and, if possible, comment on whether that thread would be worth me following to see if it helps with mine?