Hello there,

Complete Newbie to Linux here, I was hoping for someone to give me a hand, I had just installed Linux Mint a couple days ago and I have for the moment only two problems with it.

Firstly I have no sound, when I open up the sound application it shows that the sound is muted and under input its blank and shows the message "No input sources are currently available". After doing some digging around I found the command to force alsa to restart but nothing, then I installed PulseAudio Volume control and when I open this up it shows that the connection to PulseAudio failed and gives possible reasons why (I am not sure how to find out why and how to fix this). Then I installed QasMixer and I am not too sure what to do when I open this up.

Second issue is that when the laptop boots its in portrait mode, I know the xrandr command to flip it into landscape mode but this is a temporary fix but I don't know how t fix it permenantly.

I have the following hardware on my laptop

nasiranila@nasiranila-T102HA:~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: nasiranila-T102HA Kernel: 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: un-determined System: ASUSTeK product: T102HA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: T102HA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: T102HA.301 date: 02/13/2017
Battery BATC: charge: 14.8 Wh 53.5% condition: 27.6/31.6 Wh (87%)
model: Intel SR 1 SR Real status: Discharging
CPU: Quad core Intel Atom x5-Z8350 (-MCP-)
arch: Airmont rev.4 cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 11520
clock speeds: max: 1920 MHz 1: 997 MHz 2: 718 MHz 3: 480 MHz
4: 497 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series PCI Configuration Registers
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 800x1280@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (Cherrytrail)
version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio
Card-2 chtrt5645 driver: chtrt5645
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-38-generic
Network: Card: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
driver: ath10k_pci bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: NA (-)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 62.5GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 57G used: 8.6G (16%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 209 Uptime: 36 min Memory: 1239.5/3777.5MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56


Please bear in mind that I am an utter newbie and alot of terminology is over my head at the moment

Thanks.

This thread from the Mint forums might help: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=274487

Oh, and would you please edit your post and put the code in code tags, which become available when you click the "Go Advanced" button beneath the "compose/edit post" window. Code tags make code and terminal output much easier to read. Thanks.

Hi

Thank you so very much for your help, the link that you had sent me worked wonders, it had a github link, in that the first thing shown was the follwoing command.

wget -qO- https://gist.github.com/heikomat/3fe...b901a92257/raw | bash

What does this command mean and do?

I rebooted the laptop after I input this command and voila! it worked! Thanks so much!