I have just installed Rocky Linux 9.1 on my Lenovo laptop. I am una ble to hear any sound and my sound card does not seem to be recognised by alsamixer.
Please see the trouble shooting below;

$ alsamixer

F6 no sound card only - default

$ lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"

has the following output:

$ aplay -L

null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pipewire
PipeWire Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)



Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 380e
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at 6003238000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at 6003000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl

0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 380b
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at 6003244000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at efa0 [size=32]

$ cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=1G-4G:192M,4G-64G:256M,64G-:512M resume=/dev/mapper/rl-swap rd.lvm.lv=rl/root rd.lvm.lv=rl/swap rhgb quiet snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0"

I added it here.

But I sitll cannot hear any sound or get my sound cards recognized.

thx

Fwiw Rocky linux is considered a boring vanilla 'server linux os' like centos/rhel, and usually is not equipped with lots of laptop drivers or bleeding edge drivers in general.

I would suggest Ubuntu or perhaps an Arch based distro that has plenty of the newest packages, updates, drivers and support.

Thank you, but I wish to continue to use this particular distro. Any other suggestions would be helpful.

Best regards