Fresh install of Kali Linux no sound

[KaliUser333]

Hey everyone,

I am hoping someone can help me figure this out. i just installed Kali Linux to a ASUS Zenbook UX430. I cannot for the life of me get any audio to work. I have been searching for hours and trying things related to pulseaudio and ALSA, yet nothing out there resolves this problem.

I have tried purging/installing pulseaudio along with a whole slew of other things relate to ALSA. Running the "pulseaudio -D" command results in an unhelpful error that states "Daemon startup failed". Running the "pulseaudit -k" command does nothing, The "pulseaudio -v" command states "Daemon is already running", followed by "pa_pid_file_create() failed." I also tried deleting the config files. I even went as far as to reinstall Kali. None of this made a difference. I read something about adding my user to the audio group, but I cannot find anywhere to do that.

I think the operating system recognizes my audio device. I can see the speaker icon in the upper right hand corner. I also see "sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.3sound-card0.device loaded active plugged Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio" Is this assumption correct?

I am at a loss as to how to move forward with this. I really really want to like Linux and use it, but not being able to do something as simple as play audio is just unacceptable from an OS in 2018. Is there something else I can try? Perhaps an alternative to pulseaudio that actually works?

Thanks,

[BeHumble]

pulseaudio -D? lol

[_defalt]

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

[daveslashknoll]

i solved this issue on mine by

1. creating a folder for my sound card (bytcr-rt5651 in my case) in /usr/share/alsa/ucm/

2. creating a bytcr-rt5651.conf file and a HiFi.conf file in that folder

2. creating an asound.state file in /var/lib/alsa

3. installing the alsa packages

4. rebooting

if you search with quotations around "your specific sound card" and "kali" there are more in depth articles on google

[KaliUser333]

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

Thank you sir! This appears to be working!

[KaliUser333]

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

That looks like it did the trick! Thanks for your help!