Comment 52 for bug 1609750

UPDATE: To answer my own question, kernel 4.15 appears to have the necessary kernel patches installed, and the instructions by Mildred just ahead of my own were very useful to get sound *mostly* working on my R11 Chromebook under LMDE. Two issues were encountered:

- the firmware drivers necessary for this to work were missing from my distro, and I had to manually install the 'firmware-intel-sound' package (that I got from https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-intel-sound)

- the 'alsa' commands that I typically use in '.xbindkeysrc' do not change the volume levels -- even though the volume 'slider' display shows the proper usage of these keys, and so I had to supplement them with matching 'pactl set-sink-mute 1...' commands to get interactive volume changes to work. Even now, I am worried a bit of these commands getting out-of-sync with each other -- perhaps I should ignore alsa entirely (?)

Not that it is really needed by those reading this, but I have documented all of this on my web page (for my own sake).

Anyone else have similar success and/or advise?