On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 04:42:33PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
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> eject works, sound not working (by plan - - - its a machine with no
> speakers!!!),

If eject works, you can strace that to work out how it accesses the
device. Most likely your system is lacking a driver module for it.
(eject would use a generic API)

Once you know things like pci address you can inspet dmesg.log and
kern.log after boot to see what it says about it.

Ralph.