Q Mac Format
I have knocked 35GB off the SSD in my 2017 MacBook Pro: 32GB for Ubuntu Mate 22.04 LTS and 3GB for the boot partition. Except for the soundcard, Ubuntu Mate was working right out of the box. I am pretty sure there is Intel High Definition Audio onboard, but being a Mac user since Snow Leopard, I am a little rusty in finding and installing drivers. Can you please tell me how to turn on sound?
My data is currently on a 150GB HFS+ partition. I would like it to be equally available (and manageable) on Mac OS Sierra and Ubuntu Mate. What filesystem do you recommend?
Niels A
A Before you do anything else, go into the mixer and make sure the soundcard is not muted; some setups do this as a default. If that doesn’t help, the next step is to find out which sound device you have. Open a terminal and run:
$ lspci
You may need to run this command with sudo . You’ll see a list of devices, each with a number – find your sound device, for example: 00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation...
Use the -s option to limit the output to a specific device and -k to show the kernel module it uses – device drivers are implemented as kernel modules in Linux. So, for the above example you would run:
$ lspci -k -s 00:1f.3
If a module is found, the card should work, but you may have to select a different profile. If it does not have a module loaded, a quick trip to your favourite search engine should tell
