so i took the plunge and installed the core edition... as multiboot on my Hp Probook 450 G7 laptop
my HP docking station was behaving perfectly with audio jack working and stuff
Ever since i moved to pro my screen started flickering erratically for no ■■■■■■■■ reason this morning
Audio jack does not detect headset on the docking
Both things work like a charm on windows OS
What i tried
hard reset the docking (yes you can do that)
applied audio help topics from the forum (including adding extra tools)
reboot (obviously)
fun fact if i boot under windows the jack audio works and the flickering is gone (seems like something strange with usb dock detection)
i believe the docking detection to be too low level for some reason (again plugin in the headphones in windows detects the device correctly as a headpone)
another fun fact is my headset has an included microphone and it turns out it is detected as working by the audio settings (see below)
Do Zorin run in Wayland or Xorg? You could try to change the Mode to control if the Issue still exists. To change, go to the Login Screen. There click on Your Profile so that the Password Field appears. It is important that it is appeared. When it is, You should see in the bottom right Corner a Gear Icon. Click on it. You should get 2 Options:
Zorin Desktop (That is the Wayland Mode)
Zorin desktop on Xorg
What Mode is active You can see o the Dot that marks the Option. Change to the other and test if the System runs better.
so the flickering is gone after updates received end may but now i can still correlate whether on xorg or wayland the audio jack in a HP USB C dock g5 is gone..
same behavior on both my laptop one hp pro and one quite recente gaming laptop also hp
one of my 2 laptop still boots under windows as multiboot has the audio jack of the docking functioning
before it goes too far i could relate some very old posts complaining about this for ubuntu 22.04 lts but no fix.... so maybe it is a dead horse ...
Just to update, another poster with a different issue shared their 'cog' options with a screenshot. It would appear latest version of Zorin 17 now uses xorg by default and Wayland now second opfion.
In relation to audio, I have had countless issues with my surround sound system only coming out of front centre on other OS's, and in respect of Zorin speaker test producing test sounds from wrong source (e.g., rear speaker coming out of subwoofer and additionally Zorin saying source is from S/PDIF when no such connection present. My solution solved the issue in PCLinuxOS and Q4OS using settings from the audacious application:
(NO offense NO finger pointing love the OS)