No sound/low sound in Ubuntu 13.04

[Utkarsh Kumar]

I have recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows XP on my PC. The problem that I am facing is with sound.
First, I will tell about the Hardware (sound card and ports). This is the Sound/Audio drivers info:

(Azalia)
Integrated High Definition audio
Realtek ALC 880 chipset
Supports up to 8 audio channels
Dolby Pro Logic II compatible
Dolby 5.1

There are 3 ports in the front and 6 at the back, of which only two are for Audio output (3.5mm jacks). One at the front and the other at the back.
I have tried both of them, by connecting my Speakers/Earphones but from my understanding, the front one does not give out sound at all, whereas the one at the back gives out sound at a very low volume. I have tried Alsamixer and all sound settings, but none help.

The kernel is 8.8.0-27-generic. I have also tried 8.9.0-rc8 but it did not solve any problems, and gave me another set of problems.

P.S- I have tried it in Windows too, and the speakers/earphones work fine on it.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Please run the following command to gather the necessary information:
apport-collect 1216512

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

@Daniel - I ran that command. The thing that I noticed is that, it gives me "Alsa-Driver (not installed)." Currently trying to run the sudo apt-get install to install it. But can't for now, as the Software updater has just given me a prompt to download another kernel (8.8.0-29). Maybe it gets solved this way. After that I will try it.

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

Sorry, I meant 3.8.0-29

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

If you cannot get apport to cooperate, at least give link to alsa info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

try model=6stack-dig

do you really have three jacks at front panel ?

use hda-jack-sense-test to verify the node of the pin complex of rear and front panel

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

cd ~/
wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f9672e29a767b96f69d6e5d90a6dffa2126208ab

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

And I have updated ubuntu twice since. Current kernel is 3.8.0-30-generic. The problem has still not been solved.
@Raymond - I do have 3 jacks at the front:

One is blue colored and by icon looks somewhat like RSS feed ones (I seriously don't know what this one is for).
The second one is pink colored and the icon shows a microphone.
The third and last one is green colored and the icon shows a headphone.

And there are 6 of them at the back. I can't tell you what they are for unfortunately.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

seem the driver does this front panel Line out jack

you need to use hda-jack-retask to change node 0x1b Line Out to Headphone

autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) type:line
   speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
   hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
   mono: mono_out=0x0
   dig-out=0x1e/0x0
   inputs:
     Rear Mic=0x18
     Front Mic=0x19
     Line=0x1a
   dig-in=0x1f

Node 0x1b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018d: Stereo Amp-Out
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80]
  Pincap 0x0000133f: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger ImpSense
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 80
  Pin Default 0x02014c20: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Front
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
    DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 1
     0x13

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

It worked! Thanks!
This is what I did.
First, I installed hda-jack-retask (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-December/012342.html)
Then, I used the command "hda-jack-retask" to open up the console.
I used the first option, overide under 0x14. I also did the same for 0x1b because you said.
It worked after that.

Although the strange thing is that no other option was enabled. Ubuntu had not done anything for me honestly. But thanks to you this problem has finally been solved!

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_level

does the arrrow point inward or outward ?

for the front blue jack , try hda-jack-sense-test -a and plugged the loopback cable to find out the node of the jack

[Utkarsh Kumar (utkarsh-kumar05)]

The arrow points inwards. It is somewhat like the 2nd icon shown on wikipedia link:(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Line_waves03-1-out.png/32px-Line_waves03-1-out.png)
...only the arrow is not pointed outwards and neither is it starting 'from' the center. It is rather moving inwards, 'towards' the center and is starting from below the image.