No support for ALC712 chipset

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I have an Acer Swift SFG14-72 laptop. Under Windows, I use the Sound Driver (ALC712) for audio. Is there any chance that Linux supports this chipset? Unfortunately, it is currently not detected by Fedora

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Hi and welcome to :fedora:

I’d start looking at the Linux Hardware Database to see what’s been posted/working.

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I have the same laptop and same issue. I guess we need to wait for drivers to be included in the Linux kernel.

For now the only workaround that worked for me was:

  1. Edit /etc/default/grub and add snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1 in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
    e.g. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1
  2. Reload grub: sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg
  3. Install pavu-control: sudo dnf install pavu-control
  4. sudo reboot

After rebooting, open pavu-control, go to Configuration tab and select Profile with Pro audio something. This will make your soundcard work, however built-in speakers still doesn’t work for me. You will be able to connect external bluetooth speakers and use them though.

I hope we can get all the drivers in the near future…

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The solution was developed as part of the issue:

Works on kernels since 6.10