No sound on my Asus X205TA

Question

I haven't any sound on my Asus X205TA after installation of Ubuntu 16.04.

Is there any way to fix it?

Solution

There is no Linux sound support built into the vanilla or Ubuntu kernel for this device yet.

Thanks to a lot of hard work by many people, a kernel patch has been written for the sound card.

I recommend installing a pre-built kernel compiled by harryharryharry (updated since Meltdown & Spectre) as described here on Ubuntu Forums.

Download the kernel:

wget http://x205ta.myftp.org:1337/kernel/kernel-sound-64bit.tar

or if you have installed a 32-bit system

wget http://x205ta.myftp.org:1337/kernel/kernel-sound-32bit.tar 

Run these commands to install

tar xf kernel-sound-64bit.tar 
sudo ./install-sound-kernel.sh -v 

The script asks whether you want to reboot now or later. After rebooting, as the script tells you, you need to run pavucontrol or otherwise change the audio settings to set Speaker and not Headphones as the default soundcard output.

Otherwise, you need to compile the kernel yourself, using harryharryharry's instructions or Lopaka's instructions (see the sound section).

Comments

[Patrick]

I confirm this is still working in May 2019. It now installs kernel 5.0.1 (-sound-41). The previous 4.16.13-sound-33 kernel had stopped working for me, but rerunning this script has fixed audio :)