[Jaunty] HDA-Intel - no sound

[Ivan Stetsenko]

After a set of updates I've noticed that sound have just disappeared on my Thinkpad R61i laptop. It works fine with Ubuntu 8.04 liveCD, so it is not a hardware problem. It is not a pulseaudio problem, because when I'm trying to use mplayer -ao alsa in pure console, there is still no sound. Everything is on maximal volume in alsamixer -c 0, mplayer gives no errors. Pulseaudio monitor tells that sound is playing, but I cannot here anything.

stetzen@stetzen-laptop:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfe100000 irq 17

lspci:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

I'm attaching dmesg and /var/log/messages, hope it'll help you.

[Åsmund Hjulstad (asmund)]

I have similar problem, but with different hardware

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [CK804 ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
                      NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22

[NM Systems (nmsystems)]

Exact same problem... with different hardware

cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfcdf4000 irq 16

[tekrei (tekrei)]

Similar problem.

$cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfdff8000 irq 22

$lspci
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

[Åsmund Hjulstad (asmund)]

My problem turned out to be related to alsa mixer settings. For some (unknown) reason, the PCM playback in alsamixer was muted. Fixed by doing

$ alsamixer -c 0 (without -c 0 I would get a pulseaudio device)

then selecting PCM, unmuting and adjusting volume. Very simple, but not that easy to find, as long as this volume control is somewhat hidden when using pulseaudio.

Still, the volume control application in GNOME does not launch when I right click the speaker icon in the task bar, I don't know why (yet).

I now have working sound playback.

[Ivan Stetsenko (stetzen)]

  Åsmund Hjulstad wrote 47 minutes ago: (permalink)

My problem turned out to be related to alsa mixer settings. For some (unknown) reason, the PCM playback in alsamixer was muted. Fixed by doing

Does alsamixer save this settings after reboot? In my case no, and it seems to be a real problem.

[NM Systems (nmsystems)]

Running "alsamixer -c 0" and unmuting various critical chanels as Åsmund Hjulstad had suggested worked for me as well. Thanks for the tip.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

When you run mplayer in console and tell it to use alsa, is pulseaudio running? If so, it is still in fact going through pulseaudio. I'll test this in jaunty myself and get back, to make sure
something hasn't broken, because mplayer using the alsa output plugin through pulseaudio did work in intrepid.

For all of you with a similar issue, are you able to play sound if you kill pulseaudio, or play sound through an application that uses pulseaudio?

Thanks.

[Ivan Stetsenko (stetzen)]

Luke Yelavich

No, PulseAudio was not running.

Finally, I've figured out, that all problems were caused bu alsamixer of the card itself, (alsamixer -c 0) which has muted the majority of channels in addition to setting them to zero. This state is returning after each reboot.

[Tiago Rezende Campos Falcão (tiagofalcao)]

alsamixer -c 0 works for me
Thanks

[Jorge Gustavo (jgr)]

Same problem, with (Asus G70, 2.6.28-4-server jaunty):

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfebf8000 irq 22
$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

All channels are unmuted with alsamixer -c 0, but still no sound
The only sound I get is the microphone returning from the speakers (if I raise up the micro volume to the top)
mplayer behaviour is normal (and it plays), but no sound at all.

still investigating...

[Timon_and_Pumba (timonterbraak)]

I have a HDA Intel (ALC 888) card myself.
I also have no analog sound. Digital passthrought works fine though.

My channels are not muted as suggested above, and killing pulseaudio while trying to use an alsa-only solution does not work either. I will try to boot another kernel to check if that isolates the problem.

[Maze12 (willymaze)]

No have sound with 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03).
I have sound only in headphone and all is unmuted. (sorry for my bad english)

[Gerson "fserve" Barreiros (fserve)]

same problem, acer aspire 4530.

gbs@burnedleaf:~$ pulseaudio -k
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.

gbs@burnedleaf:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC888
Codec: Conexant ID 2c06

Alsa, pulseaudio dont work.
oss work.

[ski (skibrianski)]

Upgraded from intrepid to the RC via the net. Headphones work, but speakers do not. This is on a HP Mini 1035nr.

ski@skitop:~$ pulseaudio -k
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.

ski@skitop:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: IDT 92HD75B2X5

[John Hart (jlhart68)]

I have not sound also. I had sound in 8.10, but when I upgrade to 9.04beta-no sound, then I upgraded today to 9.04 Jaunty and still no sound. I can hear the log-in jungle though.

I checked the ALSA and the Master and the PCM are at max and are Unmuted.

No sound from front speakers or headphones.

[John Hart (jlhart68)]

Oh my Acer Aspire ONE is using an Intel sound chip. I have a desktop running Jaunty that the sound works fine on it. It is not an Intel system. It is an AMD CPU, on an ASUS MoBo. I do not know what the sound chip is on it. I hope that this helps someone so that they cn HELP ME.

[John Hart (jlhart68)]

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0x78540000 irq 16

[VIRUS (tech-globalit)]

Solution of you "no-sound" problem there:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/332479

[ski (skibrianski)]

My problem was solved here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318942

Thanks all.

[Bálint Aradi (balint.aradi)]

Hi,

I had no sound at all with my Intel HDA (ICH9) chip. However, after following the suggestion

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/362444

(setting the analog loopback devices to MUTED (e.g. in alsamixer by selecting the two Analog L channels and hitting M for each) I have sound again. (Mic not tested yet, though.)

 Bálint

[Bálint Aradi (balint.aradi)]

Hi,

 some update. The sound I got above was rather low. However, after executing alsactl init (and then turning up the master channel again) it became normal (as it was under Intrepid). The microphone seems also to work (tested with Skype), provided capture is set for the Capture channel, and capture level is high enough.

The muting via the Mute button of my laptop does not work though, unless I remap it in KDE from Mute to the Mute Master.

 Bálint

[mlaverdiere (mlaverdiere)]

Here's my related experience (and solution!) with Ubuntu Jaunty and an HDA-Intel card on an HP DV5-1125ca (AMD processor) laptop.

Sound output was working, but I was not able to use the microphone, neither with sound recorder, Skype, or Cheese. Solution in my case was to add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and reboot after:

options snd-hda-intel model=hp-dv5

(if you're on an HP DV4, this line might work: options snd-hda-intel model=model=hp-m4)

See this thread for more info: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12440

[Arfyness (inatrik)]

Luke Yelavich: THANK YOU

Killing pulseaudio restored everything that makes sound. The thing that confused me was the GDM sounds worked just fine. But no sound after login.

BTW, I had to make /usr/lib/gdmplay use 'sox' instead of 'aplay' in order to support my KDE sounds, in OGG format...

Killing PulseAudio solved my problem.

[Ernst (ernst-blaauw)]

On my alc888, killing pulseaudio solved my problems.

[at78rpm (ehoops)]

No sound on my ThinkPad Z60m. Had no problem in Hardy, Gutsy, Intrepid, but now -- right after my "upgrade", I get this:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

Trust me, there is an HDA Intel soundcard. In fact, they were seen (but not heard) until this morning, when KDE said they had disappeared, and Did I want to delete them from memory? Now all I have in Volume Control is Pulse Audio.

And they wonder why Ubuntu is less popular than Windows.

[geistteufel (geistteufel)]

I had the same issue
No sound on jaunty with my HDA Intel (using SPDIF)

So, I have close pulse audio
Start it manually

they say : please add your user to "pulse-rt" group

so I do it, "adduser ME pulse-rt"

and then restart my session.

sound is back and perfect ! no need to upgrade kernel ... !!!

[Luca A (luca-azzalini)]

I'm having this issue too: no sound at all after upgrade to Jaunty.
Unfortunately none of the proposed solutions work for me.

Ubuntu folks, please take this bug into consideration: it affect many people and, as far as I can see, there isn't any serious attempt to fix it. The bug is even marked as status "invalid" (!) Why? What does this means?

[tankdriver (stoneraider-deactivatedaccount)]

Try karmic. It solves my sound problems.

[Luca A (luca-azzalini)]

Thank you, but I'll rather switch to Debian...

[techykid (amar-raju)]

Added user to pulse-rt group and then did "pulseaudio -k" .
Now sound works fine.
But I have to do "pulseaudio -k", everytime after restart. Hope this gets fixed in Karmic.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:20 AM, techykid <email address hidden> wrote:
> Added user to pulse-rt group and then did "pulseaudio -k" .
> Now sound works fine.
> But I have to do "pulseaudio -k", everytime after restart. Hope this gets fixed in Karmic.

Please test a daily-live of Ubuntu Karmic:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20091013/