Audio not working on Octopus board

[Rizzlerman223454]

Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is. I have a Dell Chromebook 3100 with an octopus board. The audio just has Dummy Audio with no sound in speakers or headphones

Expected behavior
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. For the audio to work

Target Chrome OS Device (please complete the following information):

• Octopus
• Dell Chromebook 3100
• v1.2.1

Additional context
I know it most likely isn't a bad install because my friend's audio doesn't work as well and ive done two installs of shimboot on a known working drive.

[Zzza38]

I have had the same issue. I have an Acer spin, and all you have to go is go into the volume control and choose '... Audio Microphone'. Change that to speaker. It should work now, but on my chromebook only one speaker plays a sound.

[Chublins]

In the audio volume area make sure you have the correct device selected ie Speaker (Celeron/Pentium Silver High Definition Audio Speaker) It defaults to something else. I have a Dell Octopus as well and I had to change it. I am also using KDE Plasma rather than XFCE so I don't know if the process will be the same.

[Rizzlerman223454]

In the audio volume area make sure you have the correct device selected ie Speaker (Celeron/Pentium Silver High Definition Audio Speaker) It defaults to something else. I have a Dell Octopus as well and I had to change it. I am also using KDE Plasma rather than XFCE so I don't know if the process will be the same.

I am also using KDE Plasma but I dont have any other sound outputs in AlsaMixer. I dont know if this just shows the current default like you said but normally theres multiple sound options that arent there. It only shows default and says I am using PulseAudio. Can you send me some screenshots of your audio in settings?

[Rizzlerman223454]

Update: Audio on this chromebook barely works, I tested a bluetooth speaker with a youtube video and there is two settings on the audio. High Fidelity Playback, and Hands Free Unit. To get the audio to work I need to start the video, then switch the audio to Hands Free Unit. If I keep it on High Fidelity it doesnt work and if I pause the video it stops working and I need to do the whole process again. I dont know if shimboot is notoriously bad with bluetooth but this is the only audio I can get out of the chromebook at the moment. (The bluetooth speaker I am using is the Tribit Stormbox Micro if that helps at all.)

Edit: Turns out the glitch with the audio only working after changing settings was a weird bug that got resolved after a restart, bluetooth audio works fine but obviously I cant use this in a public space and I would like to be able to use my headphone jack.

[Rizzlerman223454]

Update Update: I have an idea on how to get the audio working, I read about this guy on a forum with my Chromebook and no audio with it, he ran this script and commented out a certain part, how would I comment out something on a github script?

[Inglan]

when you download/clone the script, you have to put a # (i would assume it is a shell script) in front of the line you want to comment out

[Inglan]

i dont think headphone jack works with these drivers though... i have an old school chrombook (unenrolled) with fedora on it, and it doesnt work with headphone jack even after running chormeobook audio script

[FunnyCorgi]

I am also using KDE Plasma but I dont have any other sound outputs in AlsaMixer. I dont know if this just shows the current default like you said but normally theres multiple sound options that arent there. It only shows default and says I am using PulseAudio. Can you send me some screenshots of your audio in settings?

@Rizzlerman223454 I believe you want to go into kde desktop settings, not settings for an audio mixer manager. I think that you need to change the output device in kde settings.

[Eevozx]

is there any solution i have same problem audio not working on octopus board laptop is lenova 100e chromebook gen 4. using basic debian it came with tried to see if i could fix it with salsamixer but it didint show any sound card

[es-j3]

Try pavucontrol.