[This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:40:02 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 10:38 +0000, David Parfitt wrote: >> Hi all: >> I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. >> All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of >> online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical >> ideas, >> please. > [...] >> >> daud@debian:~$ uname -a Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian >> 3.16.7-ckt17-1 (2015-09-26) >> x86_64 GNU/Linux >> > [...] >> >> daud@debian:~$ lspci -nnk |grep udio 00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel >> Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio [8086:a170] (rev 31) > > From the above, I would guess that it just isn't supported. Grab a live > cd/usb from something that uses a very recent kernel and see if you get > sound. > > If so, you need to either try a more recent kernel, or maybe even run > testing. Thx Sven. I was coming to that conclusion myself, but was hoping upon hope that I had just missed something. It also means, I suppose I have to read up on the vagaries of UEFI & installing/running second distros. Debian was straightforward - it even thought to warn me that it wasn't a good idea to overwrite the EFI partitiion :) Old dogs :( Regards Daud2
