chromebook sound

[Member hotrodwinston]

I have installed antix on a asus c300m Chromebook and i have everything working except sound. I did some searching but everything i have found is several years old and don’t work. I’m just stuck. its a case of too many google results.

[Moderator christophe]

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I have a chromebook with antiX. And sound is the only thing I couldn’t get to work either.
(Not just antiX, though, I’ve read that these are generally not supported by Linux. I’m hoping that maybe someday… but till then… )

I bought one of these on ebay:
“USB 2.0 External 7.1 Channel 3D Virtual Audio Sound Card Mic Adapter Laptop PC”

(Do a search. There are many sellers. Make sure if you buy one, get one in the 2-3 dollars/euros/pounds range, because that’s all I paid, and it works perfectly.)

The drawbacks: It takes up one (of my 2) usb ports, and it needs earbuds/external speakers/headphones.
(But I don’t use sound except with earbuds, anyway, so it works perfectly for me.)

Hope that helps. 🙂

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[Moderator caprea]

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Here it is claimed the sound on the asus c300 chromebook works with the old 4.4 kernel.
https://linux-issues.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-to-install-linux-kernel-44-in.html
Might be worth a try, the 4.4 kernel is easily installed in antiX
control-centre > software > package installer > linux kernel

[Member hotrodwinston]

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4.4 kernel didn’t help. Tried 5.10 and it didn’t boot. Tried installing pulseaudio and no dice.

[Anonymous]

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Hello hotrodwinston and christophe,

Have you tried this method to get sound working on 4.4 kernel?

sound on chromebook

[Member hotrodwinston]

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on 4.4 the touchpad didnt work so i didnt try troubleshooting much.
on the included install kernel when i run the first command it returns
“sudo: alsa: command not found”

[Member Xecure]

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For better troubleshooting, we need
inxi -Axxx
For hardware card information, and

aplay -l
aplay -L

For all available audio devices recognized by alsa.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Xecure.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Also, to rule it out, did you already look in control-centre > hardware > select soundcard
and in alsamixer if nothing is muted ?

[Member hotrodwinston]

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Nothing is muted. here are the outputs of the commands:

After multiple attempts at posting it both in and out of code boxes and being told it “appeared to be spam”, it “contained a contact”, and I was “sending too many messages” I decided to put it in a text file and attach it.

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[Member Xecure]

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I searched a bit, and it seems that the fix was included in alsa-ucm-conf package in antiX-21/debian-11.
I will see if the package can be installed in antiX 19 and report back.

EDIT: Cannot install on antiX-19 because of a library problem. I suggest you try antiX 21 live on a USB stick, install alsa-ucm-conf from the repos (via synaptic or terminal), and see if you can select the card from the “select sound card” program.

I will test myself on a similar device where I had no audio on antiX 19 (it has a different sound card, so not the same device), but that won’t be until the afternoon here.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Xecure.

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[Member Xecure]

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I think I went on a wild goose chase here.
Based on this linux-mint topic, you should be able to get the soundcard to work by playing around with some alsamixer options.

tried antiX 21 live on my cherrytrail based tablet, installed alsa-ucm-conf and restarted alsa
alsactl kill rescan
but it still didn’t seem to work. I will study this a bit better with persistence just to see if I can experiment a bit to load the correct also configuration (in my case, it is for bytcht-es8316 soundcard. You would need to load the configuration for chtmax98090 based on this bug-report

Tomorrow I will try something different.

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