I'm on this for more than two hours. Everything I try just fails, and every search I attempt results into outdated or non-working tips. I was able to get sound by adding myself to the audio group; now speaker-test -D sysdefault:CARD=PCH works, but PulseAudio stubbornly does not detect my device. Tried to delete ~/.config/pulse, tried to restart PulseAudio, attempted to get verbose logging, no useful information. pactl list and pavucontrol only show a NVIDIA HDMI audio, and a USB webcam, no onboard HDA Intel. Do I really need to get an external USB sound card for Ubuntu 18.10? This is a real deal breaker. We need a downgrade path if upgrade fails the system that hard, but there is no such thing, besides formatting and loosing all my settings.
I'm on this for more than two hours. Everything I try just fails, and every search I attempt results into outdated or non-working tips. I was able to get sound by adding myself to the audio group; now speaker-test -D sysdefault:CARD=PCH works, but PulseAudio stubbornly does not detect my device. Tried to delete ~/.config/pulse, tried to restart PulseAudio, attempted to get verbose logging, no useful information. pactl list and pavucontrol only show a NVIDIA HDMI audio, and a USB webcam, no onboard HDA Intel. Do I really need to get an external USB sound card for Ubuntu 18.10? This is a real deal breaker. We need a downgrade path if upgrade fails the system that hard, but there is no such thing, besides formatting and loosing all my settings.