Asus CX1500CKA Audio Not Working Please Advise

I am following the sticky “Linux Audio Support” at the top of this forum. I am gradually working my way through the 8 distros listed but none of them are giving me working audio.

Distro 5: LMDE: lmde-6-cinnamon-64bit.iso Didn’t work.

When running the script I get:

Warning: Kernel is missing module ‘SND_SOC_INTEL_SOF_DA7219_MACH’, audio may not work.
Warning: Kernel is missing module ‘SND_SOC_INTEL_SOF_CS42L42_MACH’, audio may not work.

And this error is spammed in dmesg:

[ 392.894074] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/20): -22
[ 392.894080] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: HW params ipc failed for stream 1
[ 392.894082] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_component_hw_params on 0000:00:1f.3: -22[ 392.894099] DMIC16kHz: ASoC: error at __soc_pcm_hw_params on DMIC16kHz: -22
[ 392.894109] DMIC16kHz: ASoC: error at dpcm_fe_dai_hw_params on DMIC16kHz: -22

I googled around and installed “firmware-sof-signed” and “firmware-intel-sound” to see if this resolved the kernel module errors but that didn’t help.

I could not run the debugging script in the sticky because it wanted a package called libinput-utils. I could not find it using apt-search so I installed every similar package that had the word libinput in it but none of them resolved this dependancy.

Distro 7: PopOS: pop-os_22.04_amd64_intel_51.iso Didn’t work.

No Errors running script but did not enable audio. I cannot see a button that lets me attach a file to this post so the debugging files are on google drive:

DEBUGGING FILE HERE

I also see this in dmesg:

[ 314.367213] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/20): -5
[ 314.367224] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: HW params ipc failed for stream 1
[ 314.367226] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: error at snd_soc_pcm_component_hw_params on 0000:00:1f.3: -5
[ 314.367255] HDMI3: ASoC: error at __soc_pcm_hw_params on HDMI3: -5
[ 314.367293] HDMI3: ASoC: error at dpcm_fe_dai_hw_params on HDMI3: -5
[ 314.372996] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60010000 (msg/reply size: 108/0): -22
[ 314.373010] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: sof_ipc3_keyword_detect_pcm_params: PCM params failed for DETECT12.0
[ 314.373013] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: sof_ipc3_keyword_dapm_event: Failed to set pcm params for widget DETECT12.0
[ 314.373016] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: PRE_PMU: DETECT12.0 event failed: -22
[ 314.373388] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: ipc tx error for 0x60050000 (msg/reply size: 12/0): -22
[ 314.373392] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: sof_ipc3_keyword_detect_trigger: Failed to trigger DETECT12.0
[ 314.373395] sof-audio-pci-intel-icl 0000:00:1f.3: sof_ipc3_keyword_dapm_event: Failed to trigger widget DETECT12.0

Distro 4: Fedora 41: Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-41-1.4.iso Didn’t work

This initially seemed more promising because there were no errors running the script and when I looked at Fedora’s sound manager it showed a sound card “Jasper Lake HD Audio”. But when I clicked the TEST buttons no sound comes out of the speakers even though the little output animation bar implies sound was happening, I also plugged headphones into the 3.5mm jack but no sound is coming out of those either. I also tested playing an MP3 file etc to no avail.

There is also the same error in dmesg as PopOS has. DEBUG FILE HERE

I have tried all the distros in the Sticky but I am still unable to get working Audio using the WeirdTreeThing script. The script always runs ok but I always see the same errors as the ones I have pasted above in DMESG and either there is no sound card to select and it shows “Dummy Output” or it will correctly show “Jasper Lake HD Audio” but no actual audio comes out the speakers or headphones (via the 3.5mm out) even though the animated volume bar rises and falls as if audio is occurring.

Am I missing any extra steps or is it possible this particular chromebook just cannot have working audio under Linux? I have not tried Windows with the paid audio driver but that’s not something I want anyway.

Is there anyone here who could help me debug the issue?

Try aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav. Just a warning though that if it works it will be loud.

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