We need to know which sound chip.
Ask you brother to run
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lspci grep | audio
If you search for a specific laptop you cannot be sure that the specs you find are correct
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lspci grep | audio
A new one to me - I have to dig deeper00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
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lspci | grep -i audio