[LMDE] AMD sound driver installed on Intel machine

[SaberClassMor]

I just reinstalled the other day and the sound wasn't working. Well, I checked what I had installed, and I think it should be fairly obvious:

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Audio:     Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 
           chip ID: 8086:06c8 class ID: 0401 
           Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:10fa class ID: 0403 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-12-amd64 

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$ apt list pipewire
Listing... Done
pipewire/stable,now 0.3.19-4 amd64 [installed]
pipewire/stable 0.3.19-4 i386

Double checking before I break anything: the way to fix this would be to apt uninstall pipewire, then apt install pipewire, and specify I just want the Intel driver when prompted. Is that correct?

After that, I'm a little concerned what other problems might be caused down the line if I've got other AMD versions of drivers etc. installed. How do I check if this is happened, and how would I prevent this from happening again?

EDIT: I understand why this was moved to the Sound topic, but I'm on LMDE 5. My bad for not stating that in the original post, but it shouldn't be in the Main Edition forum.

[SMG]

I just reinstalled the other day and the sound wasn't working. Well, I checked what I had installed, and I think it should be fairly obvious:

What AMD "sound driver" do you have installed? I do not see one.

The two drivers installed are sof-audio-pci and snd_hda_intel.

If you are referencing ALSA, that is not an AMD sound driver. That refers to your system's 64-bit architecture.

[SMG]

EDIT: I understand why this was moved to the Sound topic, but I'm on LMDE 5. My bad for not stating that in the original post, but it shouldn't be in the Main Edition forum.

Now moved to the LMDE forum.

[SaberClassMor]

I just reinstalled the other day and the sound wasn't working. Well, I checked what I had installed, and I think it should be fairly obvious:

What AMD "sound driver" do you have installed? I do not see one.

The two drivers installed are sof-audio-pci and snd_hda_intel.

If you are referencing ALSA, that is not an AMD sound driver. That refers to your system's 64-bit architecture.

On a double check, yeah, obviously Pipewire ins't a driver. D'oh. Please excuse that I referred to Pipewire as a sound driver.

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$ apt list pipewire
Listing... Done
pipewire/stable,now 0.3.19-4 amd64 [installed]
pipewire/stable 0.3.19-4 i386

I could be totally wrong, but it seems that I have Pipewire installed from an amd64 repository*, when the i386 repository* also has a version* right there. I'm on Intel, not AMD, so I guessed that this would cause a compatibility issue and wanted to double check this. Is it wrong to think that having software* specifically made for AMD CPUs could cause compatibility issues?

*Also not sure on any of these terms, or whether I am identifying these correctly. Again, forgive my ignorance.

[SMG]

I could be totally wrong, but it seems that I have Pipewire installed from an amd64 repository*, when the i386 repository* also has a version* right there.

i386 refers to a 32-bit computer architecture
amd64 refers to a 64-bit computer architecture

Neither of those refer to who manufactured the computer's CPU. They are generic terms referring to the architecture of the CPU. If you have a 64-bit computer, do not remove the amd64 packages.

[SaberClassMor]

I could be totally wrong, but it seems that I have Pipewire installed from an amd64 repository*, when the i386 repository* also has a version* right there.

i386 refers to a 32-bit computer architecture
amd64 refers to a 64-bit computer architecture

Neither of those refer to who manufactured the computer's CPU. They are generic terms referring to the architecture of the CPU. If you have a 64-bit computer, do not remove the amd64 packages.

I see, thank you for the explanation.

God knows what's going on with my sound, then.

[SMG]

God knows what's going on with my sound, then.

I would suggest doing searching on sof-audio-pci. I know there are newer drivers available that people have used on Ubuntu-based Mint, but I do not what might be different with LMDE versions.

Are you backporting a newer kernel than the stock 5.10 which comes with LMDE5? If your system has Comet Lake then I would think you likely would want a newer kernel.

If you want help with a specific issue, please provide details of what the problem is and your full inxi output.