Brand new laptop Asus X542UA and installed Linux Mint. Sound is not working and I have no idea what the problem is. Can you point me in the right direction. There is no error or anything. Should I reinstall a different distro?
UPDATE: [result from sudo lshw -C sound]
*-usb:2
description: Video
product: USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam
vendor: Azurewave
physical id: 6
bus info: usb@1:6
version: 16.08
serial: 0x0001
capabilities: usb-2.00
configuration: driver=uvcvideo maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 21
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
resources: irq:131 memory:ef328000-ef32bfff memory:ef300000-ef30ffff
I checked pavucontrol and everything seems to be ok.