Preface
I bought a cheap laptop off of Amazon. The company that makes is known as Coolby, it's the only laptop they have. Honestly, it's a great machine and I don't regret the purchase. Extremely high value in terms of price to performance. I got Ubuntu 21.10 installed in dual boot after a digging through the BIOSbit of a fight with the BIOS. The only problem I'm facing is I have no audio. Not even going back to Windows.
Current State
The machine itself doesn't have the motherboard model number listed in it at all. The field where it should be in the BIOS is assigned to "Default string." I feel like figuring out what the motherboard is to determine how to configure alsa-base is the key. As changing the model in the config got me from "Dummy Audio" to at least "HDMI/Display Port" Output. I don't have means to test the HDMI output since I live out of my car.
What I Know
At the moment, I set the model to generic as that's the only one that works. Nothing is muted. Alsamixer gives me one soundcard option, and not even a fader for it, just a OO. Pavucontrol doesn't have any additional configurations either. In "Dummy Audio" configurations, my card was listed as a Geminilake. Now it's "Intel Generic."
What Would Help
Unless someone has insights, all I feel like I can do is to reset the entire machine from the shelf and attempt a different version or distro, since I need this laptop to keep up with my online lectures at uni.
TL;DR
No motherboard model number + alsa = no audio in Windows 10 or Ubuntu 21.10. Tried most fixes aside from resetting the machine and installing a different version. Need insights into this release, a release where audio works out of the box, or this machine. Thank you for your time guys.
