No sound! (only Dummy Output!)

[JF2]

Hi, ive been using Zorin for about a week now. My on-board speakers have never worked with Zorin, but im trying my best to figure out how to make them work.

I have Zorin on an acer 511 spin chromebook, meaning i do not have access to function keys by default, and i dont know how to change this.
meaning, i cannot use alsamixer.

on a fresh install of Zorin, no sound cards are even shown when i do aplay -l.

i will send any information or specs necessary to get help!

[PlumpKibbles]

Welcome!

So I see there's two models, do you have the 4GB or the 8GB model? I have a 4GB Gateway 11.6 notebook about the same setup, 2-in-1 kinda deal. But, I have an N4020 with 4GB of RAM..

Pain in the butt to get the sound working; I had to downgrade and install a custom version for the essx8336. Turns out on some kernels I just had to run some commands to get going.

@JF2

i cannot use alsamixer

Likely due to driver..

Run these:

amixer cset name='Speaker Switch' on 
    
amixer cset name='Headphone Playback Volume' 3,3
    
amixer cset name='Right Headphone Mixer Right DAC Switch' on
    
amixer cset name='Left Headphone Mixer Left DAC Switch' on 
    
amixer cset name='DAC Playback Volume' 999,999 
    
amixer cset name='Headphone Mixer Volume' 999,999

If it gives you errors on any of the commands, definitely driver related. Won't affect anything if they don't work either.

@JF2

no sound cards are even shown when i do aplay -l

What do you get if you issue sudo lspci | grep -i audio or sudo lshw -C multimedia? lspci should show you the device HW ID, usually a xxxx:xxxx format.