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Dell Vostro 5590 Ubuntu 20.04, Fedora audio not working
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dell_fedora_audio.md

Dell Fedora Audio

sudo yum install pulseaudio
pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 17.0

Reboot.

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dell_fix_audio.md

Dell Vostro 5590 Ubuntu 20.04 audio not working

After updating Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 I have no sound on the notebook Dell Vostro 5590.

I completed these steps, reboot PC and sound problem was fixed:

  1. Purge Alsa and PulseAudio using the command:
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
  1. Install Alsa and PulseAudio again:
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
  1. Reload Alsa:
sudo alsa force-reload

After doing step 3 my PC was freezed. Mouse cursor moved, but PC didn't react on mouse clicks and keyboard.

I pressed Power button and hold it approximately 10 seconds. Notebook rebooted.

Sound problem is fixed.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Ahmed Elesawy who published this solution here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1199811

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dell_headphones_fix.md

Dell Vostro 5590 Ubuntu 20.04 headphones no audio

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hui.wang/pulseaudio
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade pulseaudio

pulseaudio --version
#=> pulseaudio 13.99.1

After that reboot your notebook.

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