Speakers (unavailable) [Solved]

[Stevo]

The AHS version may have a regression in its 5.18.16 kernel for your hardware.

AHS is mainly for those that have hardware released since the Stable Debian version MX is based upon was frozen in the earlier parts of 2021, or those with the yearning to experiment. Since your hardware runs fine on MX 19 non-ahs, you don't require it.

I'd try MX 21 standard, with its 5.10 kernel, in a live session to see if the problem persists.

[walterbe]

I have installed 21.2 today. I noticed the option to keep my /home and used it.

After install the speaker did not worked. When I booted in kernel 4.19 it did worked. I then installed the 5.10 kernel. When I booted in that one it worked also. And when I booted after that again with the default 5.18 kernel speaker still worked.

Whatever it may be it works. That is enough.

[walterbe]

The AHS version may have a regression in its 5.18.16 kernel for your hardware.

Back when I was running 19.2 (non AHS) I MX Linux 21 was just released. I upgraded (non live) to 21. Normal x64 version, just like I was using already. Speaker did not worked.

Was not in a mood to try to get it working. Was thinking is was probably because I used a brand new, just released release. Tried the version before it; 19.4 x64. That worked out of the box with my speaker. All looked good. And used that one.

Now when trying to install 21.2 I used the AHS version because it is labeled as the version for recent computers. My tiny weak computer was released in early 2020 with the then just released Intel Celeron J4115 possessor. - I was thinking, well that is still 'recent hardware', let's try that version.

Because I earlier used the x64 version and it did not worked with the 21 version I assumed it would not work now also. Did not tried it dough with the current 21.2 x64 version. Was something I could have done.

In any case thanks for the advice.

Interestingly; when using version 19.4 I got no message as an end-user that this version was not longer supported. Usually I migrate well before end of life of a version. I expected to get a popup or some message bar when running the update tool. But there are just no new updates. That is all.