Sound issues with RHEL7.5

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G'day,

I have this very frustrating issue of having absolutely no sound on my brand new laptop. My laptop is a brand new Metabox PrimeS P950EP.

I have tried things that have been mentioned online to fiddle with resolving the sound issue and have managed to kill the system couple of times.

I desperately need the sound issue solved.

I tried installing CentOS and Fedora 28 and both has no sound either.

In the Settings, Sound, Output tab it has 2 listings:

  1. Digital Output (S/PDIF) - Built-in Audio and a corresponding Profile of "Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output

  2. Speakers - Built-in Audio and a corresponding Profile of "Analog Stereo Output"

Could anyone shed some light on my problem? Or guide me to links etc. where I can read more about it?

Thank you so much.

PA
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Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9715 points
12 October 2018 8:24 AM

Hi Philip,

Most probably you're facing a hardware related issue with the sound drivers, which might not support your audio chip.
What makes it even more certain is the fact that you are having the same problem on fedora - which is very unusual ...
There might be a slight chance that it can be solved by adding a special kernel parameter. I suggest that you search in
the archlinux wiki for a possible solution, it is known for offering good documentation for "bleeding edge" problems. :)

Regards,
Christian

MH Newbie 5 points
22 October 2018 9:13 AM

Hi Christian! Thank you so much for your reply. I have the same issue with Redhat and Fedora 28.and now it fixed.

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9715 points
22 October 2018 10:03 AM

You're welcome ! :)

PA Community Member 35 points
13 October 2018 9:06 AM

Hi Christian! Thank you so much for your reply. At least one person replied! :)

So, I tried several different Linux flavors all to have errors whilst installing or installing with various hardware issues.

I didn't give up and tried Fedora 28. I read that if you want "cutting edge" stuff, venture into Fedora. At first, it installed fine however, I still had no sound. I thought damn, not again! Well, I told myself to do an update so did an update. It had nearly 400mb of updates and whilst that was installing I could see the Pulseaudio updates as well.

I rebooted my laptop and tested my sound and guess what, the sound works perfectly now. Thank you baby Jesus! :)

I'm now a very happy man and I absolutely love Fedora with KDE. So many amazing tweaks you can do with KDE. I'm in love!!!!

Thank you so much once again for reaching out.

Phil.

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9715 points
14 October 2018 8:29 AM

Hi Philip,

You're welcome ! I'm very glad to read that you could get the sound issues sorted out on fedora ... enjoy the system. :)

Regards,
Christian

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