I'm using Acer Swift SF514-52T (Intel 8th Gen Core i5) on Ubuntu 20.10 -
Linux kernel 5.8.

The default configuration has no sound working at all. I believe it uses
the SOF driver (I could be wrong) which doesn't support the Kaby Lake
platform, as the issues for supporting this platform have been closed (
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/1899 ). And the proposed
workaround to support this platform have been discarded also (
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/2256 ). Therefore installing
the latest version or any version of the SOF driver will not solve the
issue.

Force enable the HDA driver (snd_hda_intel) in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-
base.conf with options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1, the sound output
works fine but the internal mic (DMIC) doesn't work. And I believe we're
moving to the SOF driver which doesn't support my device. Therefore I
don't expect any fix will be done in HDA driver.

I tried to use Intel's SST driver as it's the only solution left. I
enabled it with options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=2 but both the sound
output and the internal mic (DMIC) don't work.

I also report this bug in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201251

Here is my alsa-info (with options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=2): http
://alsa-project.org/db/?f=db024ae3c924d318bda813f73c73e76df36bbca2

I attached my full dmesg also.

** Bug watch added: github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues #1899
   https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/1899

** Bug watch added: github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues #2256
   https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/2256

** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #201251
   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201251

** Attachment added: "dmesg on Acer Swift SF514-52T running Ubuntu 20.10"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1523100/+attachment/5428164/+files/dmesg_messages

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