No sound on dell chromebook 3180. Mint version 20 cinnamon

[n00blinuxuser]

I do not have any audio out of the internal speakers or headphone jack on my Dell Chromebook 11 3180, I've tried some methods for the 3120 but it didn't work.

[smurphos]

It's a while back since I stuck Mint on a Chromebook, but at the time I needed to use a mainline kernel and apply some tweaks nicked from Gallium OS to get sound to work.

What kernel are you running - if the mint default, first thing I'd try is some of the later kernels.

[n00blinuxuser]

How do I find the kernel... im a noob....

[n00blinuxuser]

Also bluetooth audio may work

[n00blinuxuser]

I know the kernel now, it's 5.4.0-96-generic.

[n00blinuxuser]

HELP!

[HAWR]

Hello n00blinuxuser,

smurphos gave you the tip to try a later kernel, which you can do in the update manager>view>linux kernels with the latest 5.13 kernel. Then reboot with finger crossed If that doesn't help (and I've just read the thread for the 3120), i have no other idea, what could be done.

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=303867&start=20

[n00blinuxuser]

Should I try the latest 5.4?

[n00blinuxuser]

I did try what you told me

[n00blinuxuser]

It did detect the audio device but there's no sound through headphones or internal speakers, it's not muted

[HAWR]

Should I try the latest 5.4?

No, you should take the latest 5.13 kernel. Did you do that? When you are in the update manger > view > linux kernel you see on the left side the kernel series availiable: 5.4, 5.8, 5.11 and 5.13. Click on 5.13 and then click on the top one and choose install. Then reboot.

If you installed the latest 5.13 kernel and nothing changed after the reboot, please go through the points on the following website:

http://mreen.epizy.com/SoundFixTips.html?i=1

[n00blinuxuser]

I did, no sound but there's audio devices and it detects headphones when plugged in, but bluetooth audio no longer works

[smurphos]

Can you give the results of this terminal command

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inxi -Fxxxz

[n00blinuxuser]

Here it is System:
Kernel: 5.13.0-27-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin 5.2.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: GOOGLE product: Kefka v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter>
Mobo: GOOGLE model: Kefka v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: coreboot
v: MrChromebox-4.14 date: 07/25/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.1 Wh condition: 38.2/42.0 Wh (91%) volts: 12.3/11.4
model: BYD DELL FY type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging
cycles: 101
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N3060 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Airmont rev: 4 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 6400
Speed: 537 MHz min/max: 480/2480 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 537 2: 1072
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx
Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:22b1
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 400 (BSW) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series
High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:2284
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-27-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:095a
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 44.40 GiB used: 12.69 GiB (28.6%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: DF4016 size: 14.68 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 0x8
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/mmcblk1 vendor: SanDisk model: SL32G size: 29.72 GiB
serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 28.64 GiB used: 12.68 GiB (44.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 213 Uptime: 13m Memory: 3.78 GiB used: 1.16 GiB (30.7%)
Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash
v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38

[n00blinuxuser]

?

[smurphos]

Give this a try - https://github.com/rgvxsthi/Braswell-ED ... ixes#audio

[n00blinuxuser]

Nope not working

[smurphos]

Are you trying with a variety of different kernels, having applied those tweaks? To be honest it took me about a week of trial and error to get stuff working on my machine properly when I did it and unfortunately that machine is now back on ChromeOS so I can't hunt through it to get some more clues as to all the tweaks I needed to apply (and I didn't take notes). Getting everything working on a Chromebook with a Linux other than GalliumOS is not for the faint-hearted.