Audio not working on converted Dell Chromebook
 

Let me begin by saying I have come to computers quite late in life and have very limited technical skills or knowledge.

That said, about a month ago I acquired a Dell Chromebook 11 3120 that had been converted to run Gallium OS and it worked fine. But then I discovered Gallium had been discontinued so wouldn’t get any more updates. That prompted me to put Linux Lite on it [version 5.8] which works great, EXCEPT there is no audio.

Insofar as Gallium could give me audio and LL can’t I thought the fix might be a simple one. Sadly that hasn’t been the case - for me at any rate. I searched the LL forum for other people who might have had this same issue but to date no one on the LL forum seems to have been able to offer a solution – or if they have then I’ve missed it.

So I'm now reaching out to ask if anyone here might know of a way for me to get the audio working again while the Chromebook is running LL.

My sincere thanks in advance to anyone courteous enough to reply.

You'll need to get a driver for it - so you need to find out make & model of your sound chip - then you might be lucky enough to find it online.

(I have a Toshiba Chromebook that I converted to Linux, & have the same problem, no sound, but I only use mine as a quick look up on the internet.)

Can you tell me how I do this - find out the make & model of mys ound chip?

Thanks.

[Apologies if this is a stupid question, but as I said I have very little technical knowledge]

I had the same issue when I used a Chromebook, Gallium sound worked, but other distros did not. (when I had Ubuntu installed, sound worked over HDMI from the speakers in the monitor, but not the speakers in the Chrombook)
You may have to reinstall Gallium and see what it is doing and copy off whatever config or driver they are loading and see if you can add that to another distro.
Or try some other live distros and see if any of them can get the sound working and see what they are doing.

To find your sound card, try something like this at the command line...

Looking at the specs, sound is likely being channeled to the HDMI output...see if you can change that.

I found a few links that might help;
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=320117
https://gist.github.com/jeremy-breid...3a0ae57ed98e4a

They are a bit old, so may not work anymore as some posts say it will break if the kernel is updated.

Puppy Linux, like Fossapup, try option Test Sound Card.

Hello Everyone and thank you for your replies.

Fatmac, I entered the commands you provided and you were quite correct. The sound is being channeled to an HDMI output - the actual results read...
[ 41.57739] Input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP, pcm=3 as devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 41.57739] Input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP, pcm=3 as devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11

Not that any of these means anything to me but maybe someone more knowledgeable can decipher it, especially if they can see a way of working around it.

Uteck, I visited the links you provided and tried the suggested solutions but alas no luck. I also tried running a live USB version of Gallium. Again it gave me sound but I didn't know how to copy the config file and identify the driver file in live mode. I also wouldn't have known how to install them on Linux Lite.

Leclerc78 I burned a copy of Fossapup to a usb and tried running it. It allowed me to test the sound sard but essentially other than confirming that it was an HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP sound card none of the wizards it provided could restore any sound.

So regretfully guys it looks like I'm still no further forward, But thank you all for your most helpful feedback and suggestions.

I'll leave this question open for another week or so to see if anyone else can help but if after that I'm no further forward I will close the thread.

My Dell ll 8120 has sound

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/to...l-iso-install/

Iso I used was

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ant...l.iso/download

I always recommnend checking md5sum of iso after downloading it. Saves headaches later.

Anti removed 23.1 Beta 2 testing from the testing folder. I was the tester. So I guess runit 4 23 Final is ready for chromebooks like my Dell ll.

The soon to be released antiX 23.1 has additional improvements. It's not 100% final, but interested parties can get it here:

https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/Testing/

These are the relevant files for most people:

antiX-23.1-runit_x64-full.iso 2024-Jan-26 11:32:53 1.6G application/x-iso9660-image
antiX-23.1-runit_x64-full.iso.md5 2024-Jan-26 11:36:25 0.1K application/octet-stream

Once the release is issued, the complete collection of images and/or an official method of upgrading will be provided. I happen to be using this version; it is as solid as the antiX 23 release with only a couple of exceptions; once those exceptions are resolved the release will be forthcoming.

Hi rokytnji and masinick.

Tried downloading and running Antix 23 - no joy, I'm afraid.

You need the 23.1 that was pointed to you by masinick. Not the 23.

https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/Testing/

To make audio work you can use plbossart’s Alsa Use Case Manager configuration.

Clone locally the repository (you may need to install git):

Copy the UCM (Use Case Manager) definitions:

Kill and reinit audio servers:

Reboot!