No(very low)sound after installing Zorin 17.3

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No, not "iplay -l" but "aplay -l"

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According to that screenshot, you typed:

iplay -l

it should be:

aplay -l

please try again.

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You can take a screenshot this way:

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My bad, I have so many notes concerning this problem I just typed in the wrong command in terminal.

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Maybe this Could help:

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Yeah, all I got was "permission denied" in Terminal.

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Enter
"sudo -i" in terminal, press return, then enter

"nautilus" and press return

Now your file manager is opened with root rights and you can edit the file.

Copy the commands from the link and press CTRL+Shift+V to paste them into terminal. Or you can use the right click menu.

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@Jack2964 I see from screenshot you have "sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp]" listed as well as Nvidia. Did this not show up from alsamixer [F6] list of soundcards?

Anyhow. I did a websearch using search term "sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp] low sound ubuntu 22.04"

Some hits including:

which may give a steer.

I suspect you may need to use a later linux kernel that better supports [sof-hda-dsp] audio.

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You can do it like @Forpli described it or You make it in the Terminal directly. If You should want to do it this Way:

first type sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and in the opening Window go down to the End of the File and add the Line snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0 and then press ctrl+o to save the Change, Enter to confirm and ctrl+x to exit.

Then back in the normal Terminal Overview type sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and there add at the End snd_soc_skl and then again press ctrl+o to save the Change, Enter to confirm and ctrl+x to exit.

Then make a Reboot.

You could also try what @zabadabadoo already wrote: Install a newer Kernel. For this, You can find here Instructions: