Hi, I am relatively new to linux, but decided to give it a whirl with a dual boot of windows 8.1 and Kali. I love it. But some things really are more complicated, and such a simple thing as getting the sound to function is about to do my head in good. First of all this is what I get upon ~# uname -a :

Linux "user" 4.6.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1kali1 (2016-07-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Everything is working fine, except for the sound. Under Settings->Sound there is nothing.

command ~# lspci | grep -i audio shows

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

when I type ~# cat /proc/asound/cards

it says 'no such file or directory'

I have tried to solve this through various tutorials etc. for the past week, without luck. I find it confusing that there's something called pulseaudio, then there's something called alsa, then there's something called kmixer and then there's something called oss... However none of this stuff seem to have worked so far.

I also checked under my bios, and there are suprisingly no choices or categories in there that has to do with sound.

What else did I try.. I did a full install && update && upgrade of repositories. Btw my current sources.list looks like this (in case it is necessary) :

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib

deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib

deb http://old.kali.org/kali moto main non-free contrib
deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali moto main non-free contrib

I never fiddled with this file.

Anyways, I really hope someone has the key to solve this problem, because googling this shows that a lot of people had trouble with sound - but finding relatively new posts and answers is not easy. I think I tried everything I could possibly find by now, so I'd be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance,

Martin