pomon Okay, I tried driver blacklisting again. This time I created the file and folder /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf in Nemo with root privileges instead of using the command line. Now after rebooting, the intel driver is blacklisted successfully.

Now the following commands look like this:

user@user ~ $ inxi -Axx | grep driver
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio driver: N/A
user@user ~ $ lsmod | grep sof
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl    12288  0
snd_sof_intel_hda_common   172032  1 snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_sof_intel_hda_mlink    32768  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_intel_hda      16384  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_pci            20480  2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_sof_xtensa_dsp     16384  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof               307200  3 snd_sof_pci,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_sof_utils          12288  1 snd_sof
snd_soc_hdac_hda       20480  1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_hda_ext_core       32768  4 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda_mlink,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_soc_acpi_intel_match    81920  2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_soc_acpi           12288  2 snd_soc_acpi_intel_match,snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_soc_core          393216  3 snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda
snd_intel_dspcfg       28672  2 snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_hda_codec         204800  2 snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_hda_core          131072  5 snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_pcm               184320  8 snd_hda_codec,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_sof_utils,snd_hda_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd                   139264  11 snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
user@user ~ $ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 77
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: user
Host Name: user
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.77)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: auto_null
Default Source: auto_null.monitor
Cookie: e042:c096

I have sof-firmware installed, but is it not found?

    ReillyBrogan How did I miss this?

    user@user ~ $ systemctl --user stop pipewire-pulse.service
user@user ~ $ systemctl --user start pulseaudio

    Well I tried it now and have sound. : Thank you and sorry.

    PS: I have both pipewire and pulseaudio packages installed. Removing the unused package was not necessary. And no reboot was needed (infact you should not reboot) after running these commands for the sound to start working. Now I just need to figure out how to make the change persist a reboot 🙂

        I was finally able to make the fix permanent like this:

        $ systemctl --user disable pipewire-pulse.service
$ systemctl --user enable pulseaudio

        What's the output of sudo dmesg? Upload it to pastebin or a similar site and post the output here.

          I have Solus Gnome:

          inxi -Aaz
          Audio:
          Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
          driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70
          class-ID: 0403
          API: ALSA v: k6.4.11-251.current status: kernel-api
          tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
          Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
          Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: jack_control
          Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.78 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
          status: active 2: wireplumber status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
          Server-4: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)
          tools: pacat,pactl

          Found a solution, it was this:

          user@user ~ $ systemctl --user start pulseaudio

          but WITHOUT stopping pipewire-pulse.service.

          Then I followed jumpy to make this permanent

          $ systemctl --user enable pulseaudio

          Thanks everyone!

          Yes, but pulseaudio is no longer supported on Solus and the server may be removed in a future package update. It would be better to figure out the root cause of this issue so we can get it fixed before then with PipeWire. It looks like SOF might not be loading your firmware, can you try sudo journalctl -b0 > bad-audio.log and upload it to Pastebin? Paste the link here.

            4 days later
            6 days later

            I have several days of testing behind now and the solution I marked earlier doesn't seem to function consistently. The sounds might work for a while, but then stop working again. This also stalls YouTube video playback on Firefox and Vivaldi without any error message. Incase there's another Intel NUC user out there reading this, I would like to hear whether this sound issue affects your NUC version as well or not?

            16 days later

            I recently bought and installed a new monitor. It connects through USB-C and seems to have solved the sound issues I had with HDMI.

            6 days later

            jp923 Nicely spotted. I indeed had not upgraded to the latest bios. Upgrading solved some issues I was having with the USB-C ports.