See if this Softpedia driver pack helps:
The download installed drivers, but there is no change after a restart.
No Output Devices Found
Did you try the update driver and point to it?
Tried that as well..
Also had a look through the registry
could not find an audio device.
It's looking pretty hopeless.
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Getting back to the flash drive..
Today I took the Odys to bits to have a proper look at the components --
There is no physical drive of any kind. In reality, an eMMC chipset has been integrated into the mini mainboard, which is around 120mm x 60mm.
Then there are (2) other boards >
- USB / µSD card reader board
- Touchpad board
There is also an empty slot for an M.2 SSD drive.
Confirmed there is no Certificate of Activation anywhere
by removing the Li battery flat-pack
(this battery can only be accessed by opening the laptop shell)
Odys is the first laptop I've seen without a 25 character Windows activation code (sticker).
Done some more searching and found this:
https://www.solvusoft.com/en/update/drivers/install-built-in-drivers/
If still getting nowhere I would be demanding a replacement.
Tried that yesterday -- with no effect.
Everest seems to be an odd, barely known, and obviously not well supported sound card (integrated chipset).
If I can't get the soundcard installed by monday, I think we will ask Odys for a replacement.
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Just found this! 
Also please note, you are not forced to use the built in sound card, in your computer. You could easily buy a USB sound card, you can get them all over online. They are typically quite cheap believe it or not. But do make sure to buy one that states it works with Linux, so that way the driver is in kernel, and you will have no issues.
I truly hope you are talking about Linux too, since you are on a Linux forum, and not Windows. Cause if your trying to get an obscure sound card working in Windows, its likely not going to happen.
That I haven't tried.. I will try it Now! Cheers
Aaaah -- I hadn't thought of using a usb soundcard, thanks for the tip!
I've also been trying to get Zorin installed properly on the Odys.
It had the same problems as Win10 -- no WLAN, no audio.
Here the objective is to have 2 OS installations.
An ugly solution, but you could also use a USB NIC as well as a USB Sound Card.
I don't know of any Sound+NIC combo USB devices, but there is probably a market for one.
Swarfendor came up with the solution to get the WLAN working by activating it in regedit (which worked instantly). So the equivalent action in Zorin should work as well. Audio will still need a usb soundcard, of course.
With live usb of Zorin, please open a terminal and enter:
sudo lshw
and post back the results please.
I seem to get a list of devices.
Is it meant to do that?
Yes, in order to see if the linux kernel supports such devices.
In the meantime, take a look here:
Just had a quick read..
A guy called Rufus writes about his experience with installing Ubuntu
on an old version of the Odys MyBook 14, six year ago.
He complains about the touchpad (the touchpad on the new MyBook is also complete rubbish), the US keyboard disguised as a german keyboard by keybutton swapping (same goes for the new one), and the small flash memory (32 GB on the old model).
So clearly I am not the first to attempt a Linux installation on an Odys MyBook.
If I could go back and start again, with what I know know, I would have used Zorin to reformat the eMMC drive. I got a bit too overconfident in the Odys' ability to behave as a laptop should.
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After all that struggling with drivers...
Odys has agreed to repair the laptop on a 2 year guarantee.
A real learning experience, this.
I would caution anyone owning an Odys laptop
to remove any thoughts of installing a new operating system on it.
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Whilst it is in for repair perhaps you could ask them to update it?
You mean a hardware update?
They will reinstall Windows 10 (the OS it originally came to us with),
and hopefully with a new mainboard, which is like a new laptop, since
everything is integrated into the mainboard.
I thought you needed upgrade to Windows 11?
Windows 11 is exactly what she does not want. x/
wordpad is no longer supported in Win11, and it's so insanely bloated
the outdated Celeron N4120 CPU is slowed to a crawl.
Windows 10 is quite alright, everything works, including online banking.
She wanted to try Zorin, but that didn't work out -- obviously.
Later we will get her a Lenovo (like mine), which works with any OS.
The Lenovo ThinkPad L450 is perfect for installing Linux -- the installation
goes very fast and without any trouble. No weird device drivers needed,
and there are loads of L450s on Ebay.de under 200, €
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