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This is a fesh installation on a HP Elitebook 840-G3.

Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-41-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM

There is no audio device detected.

I am complete newbie and really don't know what I'm doing here, but I'm following all the suggestions I can find searching this fault It looks like the driver and the device are not meeting up. I know the device works under windows so I'm pretty sure the hardware is not at fault. Here's some of what I have tried...

lspci -nnk | grep -A3 Audio returns nothing

lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel returns nothing

sudo apt purge timidity-daemon reports timidity not installed

sudo apt-get install --reinstall alsa-base pulseaudio makes no difference

sudo alsa force-reload This one gives some information: Unloading ALSA sound driver modules -NONE LOADED- then it says Loading ALSA...(None to reload)

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils worked, then reload

sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils

FINALLY got this: inxi -SMA

System:
  Host: HP-EB-G3 Kernel: 5.11.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.18.5 
  Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 840 G3 v: N/A 
  serial: <superuser/root required> 
  Mobo: HP model: 8079 v: KBC Version 85.79 
  serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: HP v: N75 Ver. 01.47 
  date: 04/27/2020 
Audio: Message: No Device data found.

PS

I tried aplay -l

which returns:

aplay: device_list:276 no soundcard found....

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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. As Nmath says, we’ll need some more information. Have a look at the help pages to get started: askubuntu.com/help/on-topic
    – Will
    Nov 16, 2021 at 20:29
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Once I learned that ALSA job is to detect the sound card. No card. well ok then. BIOS. that's embarrassing....

Alsamixer works great now the audio device is enabled.

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  • Is the problem solved? If so, thanks for your contribution. Would you mind cleaning up your answer a bit and telling us exactly what you did to solve the problem? The solution here isn't very clear. If you can write out step-by-step what is needed to resolve your problem, it would be most helpful for future visitors. Our goal on Ask Ubuntu is to have a library of questions and answers about Ubuntu. Maybe you can help someone else who has the same problem later. askubuntu.com/tour
    – Nmath
    Nov 18, 2021 at 0:48
  • Thank you for guidance, I'm new to this. Once I learned enough to realize that ALSA is the software module responsible for detechting the hardware, I found the command INXA -SMA indicated no hardware. From there I went to the BIOS and found the device was disabled. Enabling the device in the BIOS and then updating Kubuntu, problem solved.
    – kbmubuntu
    Nov 18, 2021 at 22:08
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    Please use the edit link to include the steps of the solution in your answer. (Not add comment)
    – Nmath
    Nov 18, 2021 at 23:00

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