I've been doing a big switchover today from windows to Zorin and unfortunately I am running into more trouble. I followed the instructions at Intel RST which the Zorin install suggested, unfortunately they have not helped.
When I use regedit to change the values to 0 they are reset once I reboot the system. My bios seems to want to re-enable RST every time even when I go in and switch it to AHCI.
At first I believe it was because of the optane drive in my system. So I uninstalled it and tried again. Didn't work. So then I removed the optane drive entirely. Same issues.
The drive that I am wanting to install to is an NVME SSD (WD black 1tb) and it is completely fresh with nothing on it.
The installer keeps on flagging RST as the problem, but I'm out of my depth troubleshooting this. (I am headed to work so may not be able to reply to any help until tomorrow)
Hello again,
I managed to get everything installed but sound is not working. I tried disabling the internal audio chipset so I could use my sound card but that didn't work.
I also used this Zorin forum post but it didn't solve the issue:
I am now trying installing Jack through ubuntustudio as I have heard that has helped some people.
Could you please tell us make and model of soundcard? As for chipset did you disable it in the BIOS? I had similar issues with my Sound blaster card, 5 Rx, and blacklisting helped initially but what really helped was installing ALSA and then create a folder in /etc and name it 'pulse off' without the quotes and cut and paste 'pulseaudio' folder in /etc into 'pulse off', this way you don't damage the system. You will need root privileges to alter things in /etc so in a terminal cd.. to / takes 2 x cd.. in the terminal to get there then;
sudo chown [your user name] etc
Then follow the guidance above. Also install ALSA tools. This should include QAS Mixer which when opened you should see your card beneath the sliders unchecked. Check it and you should get sound.
I might buy one of those to see if I can get input working again. With Ubuntu Studio I got output working and it is nice and high quality, but I can't sort out the mic. Since I spent some money on the sound card a while back I am wanting to use it until I could invest in a nice DAC
Did this get both your output and input working?
I managed to get my output working using Jack and QASmixer, but no input. Because of the way Ubuntu Studio is I'd have to do a fresh install to try your solution
The input is via webcam which shows up if I switch to record sliders and I use the webcam for Jitsi meetings, as I don't have a mic to play with. Having said that not tried broken headphones that does have a mic.
I'll go on my PC and boot Zorin to post pictures of Synaptic Package Manager of all things ALSA installed.
cd.. in a terminal as in Windows CMD = change directory. When you open a terminal you are at /home /your username home folder. So cd .. first takes you up to /home, second takes you to root directory where etc (and /home) reside.
To put this another way, entering cd .. just as you see it there, in terminal, moves the directory up by One Directory up.
It is the same thing as hitting the Up Arrow on the toolbar of most File Managers (But not Nautilus File manager, the default Gnome File manager.)
When you start Qasmixer you will see your sound card at bottom of sliders as in screenshot, unchecked - check mark it and you should hear a slight pop!
As for Synaptic you may not see them in full order as when you press 'S' at the top of the bar where the squares are this brings up all your installed packages after I did a search for 'alsa'.
Now for applications that work with ALSA - Audacious and Kaffeine and Rhythmbox. Videos (the application) will play sound but not video, but Kaffeine plays both audio and video (Kaffeine is if you had not already guessed a KDE application, not a Gnome one and was built around the superior ALSA, that is superior to Pulse Audio in every sense, and here's why from the ALSA project web page:
This is what I mean fellow Zorin users, Where are you going to find people that take the time @swarfendor437 took to upload and direct solid information of this level (and this isn't even his goto distro) for free. No where other than RIGHT HERE! I am always in the background gaining knowledge and Once Again Amazed!! TYSM for info put in my toolbox (even if I don't need it now)
Thanks for the compliment friend. To be fair I gleaned knowledge about moving pulse from someone who contributed on Ask Ubuntu and it got a minus vote which appalled me. What I share is what I have gleaned elsewhere or tinkered with myself, mainly in respect of throwing all ALSA packages into the kitchen sink which may not always be necessary.
