New Install of Zorin 18
Sound works perfectly using headphone socket
However HDMI sound keeps changing from working perfectly, so sounding slightly distorted, to terribly distorted.
Flipping PC back to a MS windows H/D and the sound works perfectly (so its definitely Zorin)
Sound card details....
description: Audio device
product: Cannon Lake PCH cAVS
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
logical name: card0
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC0
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D0
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D2
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D7p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D8p
version: 10
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
resources: irq:136 memory:b1230000-b1233fff memory:b1000000-b10fffff
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Are Secure Boot and Fast Boot in BIOS disabled? Is Fast Start-Up in windows disabled?
You could try it with adding a GRUB Value:
Open the Terminal and type sudo nano /etc/default/grub and in the opening Overview look for the white Textblock:
On the Line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT You add this: snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0
So, the Line should look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0"
Then press ctrl+o to save the change, Enter to confirm and ctrl+x to exit. Back in the normal Terminal Overview, type sudo update-grub to make the Changes affect. Don't forget that! Without it, it will not work.
Sadly non of this worked. (btw your original command had a typo "ECT" instread of "etc"
Anyway, tried changing the bios
Tried updating the Grub (and yes i did the update + reboot)
Still the same.
Can I add that the Grub thing seems to (google search) be fix for no sound. I have sound, its just heavily distorted!
Can I also add that at the orginal install, the sound was bad... I thought drivers. So I updated everything in software that I could... and the sound started working fine. Another reboot later and its distorted again.
Thanks, I corrected that.
And I thought tht adding it would help for the Driver.
Do You remeber what was updated?
Have you done any more reboots since then? Sometimes a couple of reboots or being off overnight has healing properties.
In my experience Sound issues on linux are sometimes illogical and some magic is required to stumble on a solution that holds firm.
If you played with alsamixer and find a working Sound setup using that tool, do make sure you save the settings using:
sudo alsactl store
Hi, Thanks for all the suggestions. I have tried a reboot as well as many other things (inc all the suggestions). Sadly none of them worked. I Also have no idea what was installed that made it work for a short while, and don't undersatnd why it stopped working again. Sadly I will have to back out back to Windows as I can't devote any more time to try and fit this!
Hi, I am back again.
After my last post, I installed Linux Mint and got the exact same problem!
However, on Mint I found a solution via this post...
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2566242&sid=e6767d0c9820297764f48184be42350b#p2566242
I issued these commands and the sound was fixed.
apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin
systemctl enable --user pulseaudio
sudo reboot
Groovy! I then decided to go back to Zorin and try the same fix... however, sadly when I did the same thing on Zorin it stopped it from booting.
I feel I may have done something stupid. Does anyone know why it fails on Zorin and more importantly, the fix on Mint must point to the problem on Zorin? Is it a case that my hardware doesn't like pipewire?
Do you have pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol) installed.
I don't think it is already comes installed.
Probably you need to reinstall the Zorin desktop.
sudo apt install zorin-os-desktop
So, you have on Mint uninstalled Pipewire and enabled pulseaudio. Based on that, I would gues pulseaudio is installed in Mint.
The Thing is: It isn't installed in Zorin. there is only Pipewire installed. You could try it with sudo apt install pulseaudio and let Pipewire uninstalled. And when pulseaudio is installed, use systemctl enable --user pulseaudio
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