Sound works fine in Fedora. Sounds works fine in Virtual Windows machine running in Fedora. Boot native into Windows 8.1, and no sound. Windows troubleshooter says there’s no problem. I’ve updated the Realtek drivers. Everything looks great on Windows, except no sound out of the speakers. And of course, Fedora running virtual on Windows doesn’t have sound, either, because it only sees what Windows sees.
She wasn’t happy running Windows as virtual in Fedora, but that seems to be the only way to get sound.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Well, I’ve sort of solved the problem, but it’s still not right. I unplugged from the rear, and re-plugged into the front jack, and RealTek sees it now. For some reason, it’s not seeing line out in the rear, even though it works fine in Linux. So we have sound, but it’s sort of a PITA to have to use the front jack, and keep the door open.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Well, this is apparently not an uncommon problem.
Went to the MSI web site to download the latest RealTek driver, and it doesn’t recognize the hardware. So current MS driver may be the best I can do until they update.
Weird default mixer settings so it’s just muting the output?
Heard of that being a thing sometimes.
(Or weird default output device, like sending audio out the HDMI port to a monitor with no speakers…)
No, I’ve triple checked the latter. Definitely not HDMI selected.
Windows failing to work with hardware that Linux recognizes? Somebody check parity: I think we’ve slipped into mirror universe territory.
Sometimes you have to download and use the drivers from the motherboard vendor instead of the standard generic ones because they connected something around differently or used a different chip somewhere.
But it seems you are having issues with that too. Weird.
Did you do a Windows upgrade or a clean install?
Clean install, on a new SSD.