I haven’t checked my MNT Reform yet, but my pocket is currently soundless via either the headphone jack or the internal speaker. I can get sound to work via bluetooth, but it gets choppy and eventually drops after a few minutes – I am assuming that’s unrelated, but I thought I’d mention it.
Gnome reports only a single output, and in settings it’s called Analog Output - Built-in Audio and there are no other devices.
Previously, I was able to fix things via alsamixer, but that does not appear to be the case with whatever is going on right now – by default, it seems to show a very simple pipewire screen with a single volume slider. Selecting audio cards presents me with options for (default) -, hdmi1, and rk3588-tlv320aic3100, the latter of which has many devices, which seem to have zero impact on sound output. The single output Gnome is displaying seems to correspond to the (default) - output, which alsamixer is labelling PipeWire.
dmesg output has this:
[ 50.273962] asoc-audio-graph-card analog-sound: ASoC: driver name too long 'rk3588-tlv320aic3100' -> 'rk3588-tlv320ai'
This appears to be a red herring (reform-hw-setup uses the name rk3588tlv320aic and changing it to the version without a c and adding a dash generates an error message).
reform-check output:
I: Contents of /proc/device-tree/model: MNT Pocket Reform with RCORE RK3588 Module
I: `uname -a` output: Linux pocket 6.17.7-mnt-reform-arm64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 6.17.7-2+reform20251108T015458Z (2025-11-0 aarch64 GNU/Linux
I: Version of linux-image-mnt-reform-arm64: 6.17.7-2+reform20251108T015458Z
I: Version of reform-tools: 1.81-2+reform20251104T202417Z+1
I: Version of system image: System Image v4: 2024-12-16
I: Version of system controller firmware: "20250117"
I: Latest version of system controller firmware: RESULT: <release id="128381" version="20251001" timestamp="1759317444" urgency="high" install_duration="120">
<location>66931c02c840c64e89346ec1540db13391d21201f7ffa495b41d6208c3b94aa7-sysctl.cab</location>
<checksum type="sha1" filename="firmware.bin" target="content">4dce23e09e38f8bd064d94c5c0148c5444928ffc</checksum>
<checksum type="sha256" filename="firmware.bin" target="content">06b8880865bf8639548a1a72840a839c01b84c4043b4b6d103c275bbaa523f3a</checksum>
<description>
<p>Release 20250623</p>
<ul>
<li>System Controller watchdog reset timeout increased to 10 seconds to avoid spurious resets of the device.</li>
</ul>
</description>
<url type="source">https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform/-/tags/20251001</url>
<artifacts>
<artifact type="binary">
<location>https://fwupd.org/downloads/66931c02c840c64e89346ec1540db13391d21201f7ffa495b41d6208c3b94aa7-sysctl.cab</location>
<filename>sysctl.cab</filename>
<checksum type="sha1">76beedeaabbdbd1c641c50f1d098c448695de92c</checksum>
<checksum type="sha256">66931c02c840c64e89346ec1540db13391d21201f7ffa495b41d6208c3b94aa7</checksum>
<size type="installed">104960</size>
<size type="download">165275</size>
<testing>
<test_result date="2025-10-29">
<vendor_name id="2550">MNT Research</vendor_name>
<device>mntre MNT Pocket Reform with RCORE RK3588 Module</device>
<os version="13">debian</os>
<previous_version>0928</previous_version>
<custom>
<value key="RuntimeVersion(org.freedesktop.fwupd)">2.0.8</value>
<value key="FromOEM">x</value>
</custom>
</test_result>
</testing>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</release>
I: Version of keyboard firmware: "20250117"
I: Version of U-Boot: 2024.10-g424c714eb247-dirty
I: Latest version of U-Boot: 2025-11-04
I: probably booting via /boot/boot.scr (/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf does not exist)
I: Mount source of /: /dev/reformvg/root (LVM vg 'reformvg' on LUKS device 'reform_crypt' on SSD)
I: Mount source of /boot: /dev/mmcblk0p1 (eMMC)
I: Suggests of reform-desktop-minimal is not installed: firmware-iwlwifi
W: you do not seem to boot using tuigreet but you the following file sets your loglevel to 3: /etc/flash-kernel/ubootenv.d/00reform2_tuigreet_loglevel -- you may consider removing it and re-running 'sudo flash-kernel'
I: the following files differ from how they are shipped by reform-tools (ignore /var/lib/alsa/asound.state):
??5?????? /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
I: the reform-qcacld2 package is only required for wifi on the Pocket Reform with i.MX8MP, you can safely remove it unless you plan to go back to the imx8m+
I: kernel boot parameters your system does use but which are not the default:
+ loglevel=3
I: kernel boot parameters which are the default but your system doesn't use them:
- console=ttyS2,1500000
I: eMMC contains the latest u-boot version 2025-11-04
I’ll keep poking at it – let me know if there’s anything specific I can do to help troubleshoot (or if I’ve done or missed something incredibly silly).
