Aleena audio did not work on stock fedora

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Board: ALEENA (AMD Stoney)

Distro: Fedora 43

Issue:
Internal audio did not work on stock Fedora. Only HDMI audio showed up.

Symptoms:

  • aplay -l only showed HDMI devices

  • machine driver errors pointed to designware-i2s.1 not registered

Root cause:
The stock Fedora kernel config was missing:

  • CONFIG_SND_DESIGNWARE_I2S

Working fix:
Rebuilt the Fedora 43 kernel with:

  • CONFIG_SND_DESIGNWARE_I2S=m

  • CONFIG_SND_DESIGNWARE_PCM=y

Result:
After booting the rebuilt kernel:

  • aplay -l showed internal audio as acpd7219m98357

  • internal playback devices appeared

  • speaker-test -D hw:0,2 -c 2 -t wav produced sound

  • browser audio worked and persisted after reboot

Working kernel:
6.19.12-200.aleenaaudio.fc43.x86_64

Notes:
This was on an ALEENA Chromebook with AMD Stoney. The rebuilt kernel fixed the missing internal audio path on Fedora 43.