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No Sound on Laptop
« Thread Started on Oct 28, 2011, 1:31am »

On this attempt at using SalineOS on my laptop, I've managed to solve a few problems that I've historically had with Xfce and Debian Stable. However, I have no sound. I've tried installing PulseAudio, but even that didn't help.

My sound controller is built-in Intel. Specifically, lspci identifies it as "Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)."

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #1 on Oct 28, 2011, 7:49am »

Try adding the lines below to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1

Save it then reboot.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #2 on Oct 28, 2011, 2:06pm »

Still not working under either ALSA or PulseAudio. However, I did find out that under PulseAudio, the volume meter (under Multimedia --> PulseAudio Volume Meter (Playback)) shows full sound coming out of both speakers, even though I can't hear anything.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #3 on Oct 28, 2011, 3:33pm »

Do you have a Mute button on your keyboard? Also check for mute on the Mixer in your panel.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #4 on Oct 29, 2011, 10:01pm »

I have a mute button on my keyboard, but I don't have any sound even when the volume shows as not muted.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #5 on Oct 29, 2011, 11:04pm »

Oct 29, 2011, 10:01pm, kevins wrote:

I have a mute button on my keyboard, but I don't have any sound even when the volume shows as not muted.

Open Mixer and click the bottom of Master and Front to mute, then, unmute them, sometimes this is muted and not showing. Check speaker wires or headphone jack to make sure they are plugged all the way in. In other words. touch all the bases. I use an amplifier and sometimes it is muted. The more things that can go wrong often do.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #6 on Oct 30, 2011, 1:48am »

I tried the mute-and-unmute thing with no success. It's a laptop, so there are no speaker wires, and I haven't tried headphones on SalineOS yet.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #7 on Oct 30, 2011, 9:42am »

It seems to be a elusive bug that sometimes pops up. If you add these 3 lines to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base Anthony suggested above
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1

run "alsa reload" (without the quotes) at the console and that should work.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #8 on Oct 30, 2011, 11:50pm »

I had those three lines in alsa-base from Anthony's advice in Post #2. I just tried running alsa reload, and it didn't work. I did get the following output from the terminal:

Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-codec-hdmi snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc (failed: modules still loaded: snd-hda-codec-hdmi snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-codec-hdmi snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #9 on Oct 31, 2011, 7:51am »

Aside from suggesting you backup and reinstall SalineOS 1.5 from scratch I don't know of any other solution. Perhaps someone else has a suggestion? I believe somehow there is a conflict now between Alsa and Pulseaudio and other than completely purging everything you have done, a reinstall would be simpler.

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Re: No Sound on Laptop
« Reply #10 on Oct 31, 2011, 9:47am »

Get your hands on a root terminal and issue the command alsactl init this might make your sound work, more likely it will give you useful output (Some error message or messages). Posting this output would be fairly helpful, just make sure to test if your sound starts working whether or not it gives you an error message. I say this since I get this output, which is apparently normal.

root@salineos:/# alsactl init
Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC888" "HDA:10ec0888,14627309,00100001" "0x1462" "0x7309"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method

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