[GA-880GM-USB3, ATI RS690/780 HDMI, Digital Out, HDMI] No sound at all. Sound works only if I reboot the system after starting it up once.

[Daniel Carter]

Ubuntu 12.04
Sound only works after I restart the system again after originally booting up. This also happened when I was on Ubuntu 11.10 release.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: dc 1725 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dc 1725 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0889,1458a102,00100004'
   Controls : 46
   Simple ctrls : 22
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdafc000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Sun Apr 29 10:38:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:HDMI failed
Symptom_Card: RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] - HDA ATI HDMI
Symptom_DevicesInUse:
 1725 1725 dc F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dc F.... pulseaudio
Symptom_Jack: Digital Out, HDMI
Symptom_Type: No sound at all
Title: [GA-880GM-USB3, ATI RS690/780 HDMI, Digital Out, HDMI] No sound at all
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FE
dmi.board.name: GA-880GM-USB3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFE:bd10/25/2011:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-880GM-USB3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-880GM-USB3:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-880GM-USB3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Ubuntu 14.04 is based on the upstream 3.13 kernel. The radeon.audio=1 kernel boot option will no longer be necessary with this kernel. Instead, HDMI audio on ATI/AMD Radeon cards can be enabled and disabled on the fly by typing the following in a terminal window:

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set audio on

or

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set audio off

If your HDMI port is numbered differently (type "xrandr" to check) - you might need to change HDMI-0 in the above command to HDMI-1 or HDMI-2.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for alsa-driver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]