Gary Phillips - 2026-08-28

Winux Fresh Install onto a dedicated partition, dual booting with Windows 11.

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I have tested Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, along With Debain 12 and 13. All have worked on this PC without any sound issues.

I installed Winux 11 from USB onto a 250 gb blank partition. Logged in, updated it and have been trying it out. But I have no sound coming from my built in PC speakers via the HDMI cable. Sound is playing through the small speaker in the HP instead. No matter what setting I change in the Volume control panel (I'd take a screenshot with Spectacle - but it won't take a screenshot or rectangular selection when the volume control panel is open 🤦🏻)

If I run the command *aplay -l * - I get this output

gary@hpprowinux:~/Music$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20632 Analog [CX20632 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

If I run the command aplay -L - I get this output

gary@hpprowinux:~/Music$ aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
lavrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Libav/FFmpeg Library
samplerate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library
speexrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
oss
    Open Sound System
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
speex
    Plugin using Speex DSP (resample, agc, denoise, echo, dereverb)
upmix
    Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8)
vdownmix
    Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization
hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    Front output / input
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CX20632 Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
usbstream:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH
    USB Stream Output

I've tested audio with Edge and YouTube, Google Chrome with YouTube and VLC playing a local mp3 file. All play through the internal speaker on the HP Mini and I have no options to change the output device to the HD output for HDMI.

If I reboot the computer back into Windows 11, the audio through the HDMI to the monitor works without issue.

 
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