You are actually the second person I have ever spoken to that managed to get Linux installed while secure boot was enabled at all.
The word "secure" is a bit of a misnomer, in this. It is not a security issue, well it could be a security for Microsoft preventing any other OS issue... But Secure Boot does not protect your computer.
Otherwise, you would need a password to boot.
To install Linux, any distro, Secure Boot must be disabled.
If installing alongside Windows, Fast Boot must also be disabled.
That is what I would try.
I have installed Zorin many times and I do know if it asking to install third party software, do not remember it ever asking me to Enable Secure boot…
But as an aside, I always recommend installing with the Third party and Update during installation box Unchecked. Even connecting to the web is unnecessary. Do the installation First, then once it is complete and rebooted, run the updates and upgrades, after. IF you want to use proprietary drivers, install or enable once all upgrading and installation and the like has been done.
To totally jinx us now… Watch you re-install, secure boot off, all advice taken and sound still not work… -shrug- 2020 ain’t done with us, yet.
How do one actually determine what driver should be used for a soundcard? How do i know snd_intel_hda is the one i should use?
Edit: Reason i'm asking is because I booted up Ubuntu from a live usb and it loads snd_soc_skl_hda_dsp instead of snd_hda_intel.
The SOF firmware was a good lead, thank you.
It led me further more to this blog post about the Dell XPS 2020 with same sound card as precision 5750. Apparently its a know issue on XPS 2020 that sound isnt working…
I checked out the patches posted there (and actually took a swing at upgrading to kernel 5.8), and believe it or not I have sound! At least from my 3.5mm jack. Still working on the speakers
Another suggestion might be to try Devuan, Antix or MXLinux- a Non-Systemd distro.
Systemd uses these Modules that you are experiencing difficulties with. I wonder if you would have a very different experience with a different init system.
Good idea,
That might actually work but then i’d loose the benefit of running this lovely OS.
I got speakers working as well now, it was just a muted layer in alsamixer.
I spoke with Dell this morning and they suggested the SOF firemware as well (Mentioned in the blogpost i linked), so this seems like a valid resolve.
@dpet8 Wow. Now you are talking Good News!
I have had a long running battle with intermittent sound on Zorin as my friend @Aravisian will be very familiar. In short, every time I booted Zorin, it was a lottery if sound worked or not. A few days ago I got the silent treatment from Zorin. My usual remedies via pulse audio and alsamixer controls failed me. Then I found setting on alsamixer for "Loopback" at far right. I had a play with that and sound came back, initially as deafening feedback tone. After I turned down nearby sliders, that receded and sound still worked. I saved the alsamixer setting using:
sudo alsactl store
Sound still works (so far anyhow) after many a reboot and even after a kernel update today, things that would regularly stop it before. Maybe I have said this before, but sound on Zorin(Ubuntu) seems more witchcraft than science. I continue the habit of crossing fingers every boot and testing speakers thereafter.
I hope you now get your speakers, headphones and microphones all working as expected.