Hi all,
I have the ASUS NUC 14 Essential which came out in January. Installing Zorin 17 on 6 of them and it all works, fine except that the soundcard is not visible in the sound settings, or in alsa (or anything else).
But there is a soundcard installed because using
sudo lshw -C multimedia
produces this:
description: Multimedia audio controller product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
I asked Asus for some help and they sent me instructions to update the kernel, apparently 6.8 won't do. They also sent instructions for how to update Ubuntu to v 24. I think the easiest thing to do would be to wait for 17.3 to be released and hope the upgraded kernel will allow the soundcard to recognised? Is this about right?
That might do it. But, upgrading your kernel is also very easy to do. If you are not dual booting Windows and using Secure Boot:
Add the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tuxinvader/jammy-mainline
Then update and install (In this case, the 6.12 kernel):
sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-generic-6.12
If you are using Secure Boot or Windows dual boot, you can use the Xanmod or Liqourix kernel - OR, upgrade using the Mainline installer tool
Repo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan/ppa
Installer the Mainline tool
sudo apt update && sudo apt install mainline
Launch Mainline and use the GUI tool to select and install your preferred kernel.
(I have wondered why @Locklear93 has not done this to get 6.12...)
Welcome to the Forum!
Did You tried Pulse Audio Volume control? that is aTool for set up Audio Input and Output. You can install it with sudo apt install pavucontrol
Because of the Kernel: Zorin should get in the next Time a bigger Kernel Update to Version 6.11. Unfortunately there is no specific Date. Did the ASUS Support tells You what Kernel is needed?
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My thread in which I asked about DKMS and my misunderstanding of it mentioned using Mainline, in fact. I went to 6.13, because that was the kernel I actually care about (newer is nice to have, but 6.13 contains improvements for AMD CPUs with 3D-Vcache, which mine are). Mainline got the job done nicely, but I ended up with broken drivers due to DKMS not being there yet. The aforementioned thread happened, and someone provided me with instructions for Xanmod 6.12 which had working support for Nvidia 570s, thus there I stayed, waiting for Xanmod 6.13 to go from edge to mainline. When it did, it too lacked support for Nvidia 570 drivers, and considering my new machine has a 5090, lower driver versions are not an option.
Thus: mainline could not help me, Xanmod could not help me, and I bounced over to Nobara where 6.13 and 570 are distribution provided.
-facepalm-
Right. I forgot about that. I was there to see it happen in thread, even..
If they mentioned Ubuntu 24.04 then that will mean waiting for Zorin 18.
Using Brave A.I. search engine:
Linux Driver for 0000:00:1f.3
The device 0000:00:1f.3 typically refers to the Intel HD Audio controller on many Linux systems. The driver used for this device is usually snd_hda_intel
, which is part of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). However, issues can arise with this driver, such as failing to add the i915 component master , which can be related to conflicts with the NVIDIA custom driver.
Additionally, some newer systems may require the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) drivers, such as sof-audio-pci , to properly configure audio components.
These drivers are designed to work with firmware provided by the Sound Open Firmware project and are necessary for some newer laptop models since 2019.
If you encounter problems with the audio controller, you might need to install specific firmware packages like sof-firmware and alsa-ucm-conf .
In some cases, manually configuring the ALSA settings or using specific kernel parameters can help resolve issues.
For troubleshooting, you can check the output of dmesg | grep sof to see if the SOF drivers are loading correctly and if there are any error messages.
AI-generated answer.
On initial search, it brings back the infamous 'sof' driver needed!
That also assumes they're making a targeted suggestion instead of just "try this common Linux that's newer than yours." I'm impressed they had a Linux recommendation of any kind, but don't really trust that they made it with particular care.