Questions matching "ny sound on my laptop (I think it might be a driver problem?) Server name is Pulse Audio volume control is showing no input when Totem is playing or system starts up"

[Longshoreman]

Binary package hint: totem

Questions matching "ny sound on my laptop (I think it might be a driver problem?) Server name is Pulse Audio volume control is showing no input when Totem is playing or system starts up"
This has been a problem since first installing 8.10 although my sound worked with Vista.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
 We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[Longshoreman (longshoreman)]

1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
Following the initial install of Ubuntu 8.10 on this Lptop no sound of any kind was available.

2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

OK Done my best to comply
Found Website
 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting?action=show&redirect=DebuggingSoundProblems
and worked my way though this as best as I could.
The results of the various Terminal queries and responses are listed in the attached openOffice.org document.
I think from this that my soundcard is not supported!?
Can you have a look and see what you think please?
As I say in the attachment I am a newcomer to Ubuntu and so have not the expertize to understand all of the Terminal query output.
I am very impressed by 9.01and will use this operation system from now on, but I would dearly love to hear some sound off thius laptop.
(Sound is working fine on my old ACER Travelmate 2420 which I have als updated to 9.1)
THank for you help,
David ';^)>

[Longshoreman (longshoreman)]

Done a bit more digging - following the SoundTroubleshooting page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting?action=show&redirect=DebuggingSoundProblems

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!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

My sound card seems to be number 0

0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 2

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It would seem that I have a Driver Version : Release v1.0.18rc3

Codec for my soundcard would seem to be Realtek ALC883

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!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

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My sound card seems to be number 0

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0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 22

!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 22

!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

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

!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's
!!--------------------------------------------------------

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1071:8227

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If I look for the mixer controls for this card I get this response (which looks a little odd !?!?

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!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [Intel]

ALSA lib simple_none.c:1536:(simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Headphone Playback Switch',0,2,0) appears twice or more
amixer: Mixer load hw:0 error: Invalid argument
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 22'
  Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
  Components : 'HDA:10ec0883,10718227,00100002 HDA:10ec0268,10718228,00100003'
  Controls : 39
ALSA lib simple_none.c:1536:(simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Headphone Playback Switch',0,2,0) appears twice or more
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: Invalid argum

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If I look for any references for the Codec reference Realtek ALC883
all I find is this (which again is not quite what I expected going by the SoundTroubleshoot site)

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!!HDA-Intel Codec information
!!---------------------------
--startcollapse--

Codec: Realtek ALC883
Address: 0
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0883
Subsystem Id: 0x10718227
Revision Id: 0x100002
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Default Amp-In caps: N/A
Default Amp-Out caps: N/A
GPIO: io=2, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=1, wake=0
  IO[0]: enable=0, dir=0, wake...