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 Subject: firmware-misc-nonfree: Possibly missing firmware for Creative Labs 
 Sound Blaster Z PCIe sound card 
 Message-ID: <166786054483.12930.11623561595031336807.reportbug@x 
 99-desktop.lan> 
 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:35:44 +0000 
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 Package: firmware-misc-nonfree 
 Version: 20221012-1 
 Severity: normal 
  
 Dear Maintainer, 
  
 I have been running into weird behaviour on my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z 
 (Serial number either SB1500 or SB1502). 
 Just now I noticed that a seemingly related firmware file doesn't get 
 loaded. 
 Here is a section out of dmesg: 
  
 [    9.591329] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
 ctefx-desktop.bin (-2) 
 [    9.591355] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for 
 information about missing firmware 
 [    9.591387] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
 ctefx-desktop.bin (-2) 
 [    9.591409] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
 ctefx-desktop.bin failed with error -2 
 [    9.592599] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
 ctefx.bin 
  
 ctefx-desktop.bin shows up in the list of firmware that is supposed to be 
 included in Debian. https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/List 
  
 While the driver seems to load a different firmware file, and the sound card 
 works most of the time, the identification in lspci seems wrong, and there 
 is 
 random issues like no audio output until reboot, "electric" audio output 
 until 
 reboot, no audio 
 input until reboot, settings needing to be applied multiple times, and 
 alsactl 
 store failing. 
 lspci reports a "Subsystem: Creative Labs SB1570 SB Audigy Fx", while this 
 card is from a different series and looks completely different from it. 
 Not knowing much about this sort of thing, I am assuming the driver is 
 falling 
 back to the firmware for a different sound card, which might be causing a 
 bunch of my issues. 
  
  
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 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) 
 Foreign Architectures: i386 
  
 Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) 
 Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 
 TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE 
  
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