@Sandora -- a possible miracle for you. I tried adding 'Clevo' to my search terms and found this pretty quickly. I now have sound working in Ubuntu 20 both out loud from the speakers, and via headphones plugged into the 3.5mm jack...
@Sandora -- good point about USB, thank you, I do have a USB headset I use for work so that's something. I guess Bluetooth devices should work, too.
@SpyderTracks -- thanks! That is one I tried unfortunately, no joy in my case.
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Greetings, I'm a newbie. I just set up my Defiance 15.6" with Nvidia RTX3080 GPU yesterday in a dual boot configuration (with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 20 each in a modest partition, and the rest of the single SSD as a data partition visible to them both). Generally everything worked fine first...