--- no soundcards ---

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:50:13 +1000 Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I recently bought a Lenovo Ideadpad Slim 3 for a relative and installed 
> Xubuntu 23.10 on it. The only problem is there is no sound. The command 
> cat /proc/asound/cards results in "--- no soundcards ---".

What does "lspci" display?

One of the downsides of buying "new" PC hardware is not having drivers for 
bleeding edge hardware...

> 
> A lengthy Internet search for an answer shows that "no sound" problems 
> after an upgrade are not uncommon and many solutions are offered but I 
> couldn't find anything that lead to a solution for an undetected sound card.
> 
> I should mention that I removed Windows 11 because the updates were 
> painfully slow so I don't know if the sound worked under Windows or not. 
> I imagine that it would have. Perhaps Xubuntu 24.04 will detect the 
> sound card.
> 

Perhaps...

> Can anyone offer a solution?
> 

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