No sound on HP Pavilion g6 [Solved]

mcy1115 · 2013-08-21 15:00:18

Hey guys i have just finished a fresh install on my laptop and am having a hell of a time getting my sound card to work.

Some details,

Installed UEFI boot, on encrypted lvm setup (not sure if this makes a difference, but when i installed earlier this week un encrypted i had no problem with sound...)

Following is the output of lspci -v

00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1849
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32
Memory at f0340000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

alsactl init output

alsactl: init:1758: No soundcards found...

I have also tried oss to no effect and have been researching this issue for about an hour now to no avail, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit 1: this is a 64bit install with multilib repos enabled

Edit 2: I found that my snd and sndcore modules were not being loading so i added them to mkinitcpio.conf ran mkinitcpio and now the sound card is loaded up but is still not outputting sound

Edit 3:
speaker-test

speaker-test 1.0.27.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

lsmod | grep snd

snd_hda_codec_idt 37944 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 29701 1
snd_hda_intel 35309 0
snd_hda_codec 147506 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6332 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 77765 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 7234 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 18718 1 snd_pcm
snd 58950 7 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore 5418 1 snd

Last edited by mcy1115 (2013-08-22 03:09:01)

mcy1115 · 2013-08-21 19:24:24

Any Takers?

pekka · 2013-08-21 19:43:04

Wiki
"The current version of ALSA installs with all channels muted by default. You will need to unmute the channels manually."

Hmm !!!
alsamixer
and
speaker-test -c 2

mcy1115 · 2013-08-21 20:18:15

Thanks for the info i have already umuted all the channels and the output from speaker test is referenced above

mcy1115 · 2013-08-22 00:25:31

Alsa-info Log File --> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=c12ac … 6a0ecad4f0 <-- Hope this can help someone diagnose this for me

jasonwryan · 2013-08-22 01:04:32

A couple of things; loading sound modules in your initrd is not the correct approach. See the wiki page on loading modules (I doubt you need sound that early)...

Encryption, LVM, UEFI etc have no bearing on sound, so you might want to edit your first post to just focus on relevant issues only; it will help others help you. Please add code tags when you do.

You should also include more details about what you have tried: I see no mention in your post of pulse audio; but apparently it is running?

A quick look at the log file suggests that there is nothing particularly wrong at the hardware level; my guess is you have been throwing the kitchen sink at it and now have misconfigured/conflicting settings. Remove everthing, choose what tool you want to manage your sound: alsa or pulse (I would recommend the latter), and then step through the wiki page methodically. It never fails.

mcy1115 · 2013-08-22 01:09:07

jasonwryan wrote:

A couple of things; loading sound modules in your initrd is not the correct approach. See the wiki page on loading modules (I doubt you need sound that early)...
Encryption, LVM, UEFI etc have no bearing on sound, so you might want to edit your first post to just focus on relevant issues only; it will help others help you. Please add code tags when you do.
You should also include more details about what you have tried: I see no mention in your post of pulse audio; but apparently it is running?
A quick look at the log file suggests that there is nothing particularly wrong at the hardware level; my guess is you have been throwing the kitchen sink at it and now have misconfigured/conflicting settings. Remove everthing, choose what tool you want to manage your sound: alsa or pulse (I would recommend the latter), and then step through the wiki page methodically. It never fails.

I didnt expect the lvm uefi etc to impact it at all but listed it because it was the only difference from an earlier install this week where the sound had worked. Pulse audio was the perverbial kitchen sink as the last thing i have tried.

How does one go about removing alsa completely to start the configuration process over? havent had any luck finding that info.

jasonwryan · 2013-08-22 01:13:07

You don't remove alsa. You remove everything else you have installed trying to fix your issue, so you are starting from a clean slate again.

Zazzman · 2013-08-22 01:17:24

I'm having odd issues with my motherboard:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … therboards

Please pay attention to the second box here.

I'm concerned, since my motherboard is an Asus, and there's a few other warnings listed here, mostly for Asus boards, and Gigabyte 990FX boards (elsewhere on the web). Maybe use lshw to check your motherboard vendor/spec? Then we comb the google for relevant bug reports involving those, hopefully there's workarounds posted!

Or we just go back to the old booting.

mcy1115 · 2013-08-22 01:22:41

on running lshw my board is reporting as Hewlet-Packard <-- didnt realize they manufactured boards lol

 *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 1849
       vendor: Hewlett-Packard
       physical id: 0
       version: 57.35
       serial: PCTXA028J4LF6I
       slot: Base Board Chassis Location
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Insyde
          physical id: 0
          version: F.27
          date: 04/12/2013
          size: 1MiB
          capacity: 4032KiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi

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jasonwryan · 2013-08-22 01:30:18

Learn how to use code tags. I won't ask a third time. Click the edit button on your post to see them in action.

mcy1115 · 2013-08-22 01:39:58

jasonwryan wrote:

Learn how to use code tags. I won't ask a third time. Click the edit button on your post to see them in action.

Uh sorry?

mcy1115 · 2013-08-22 02:11:19

thank you for pointing me to the pulseaudio wikki as i finally have sound after an entire day of problems. So thanks jasonwryan

jasonwryan · 2013-08-22 02:33:35

Glad you got it sorted. Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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No sound on HP Pavilion g6 [Solved]

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