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s0lder

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Registered: 2011-05-20

Posts: 9

No sound with ALSA and/or Pulse from built-in Intel 5 Series Card

Hello,

I posted a thread about a similar problem to this 4 years ago, but that solution is no longer working for me, and I'm just now returning to Arch after floating between a few different distros, so I'm not as knowledgeable about this as I might once have been.

Basically, my problem is that sound does not work on my laptop, neither through the internal speakers or headphone jack, and neither with plain ALSA nor Pulseaudio. This leads me to believe that there is some underlying problem that once solved, will allow plain ALSA and Pulse to work properly, but that's just speculation. I've put several hours of research into this so far with no luck. Everything in alsamixer is unmuted and looks right. I'm going to dump as much relevant info on my setup below in hopes that someone more knowledgeable than I can spot the issue:

The relevant section of lspci:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 0447
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
	Memory at fbd00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

The output of aplay -l

card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: 92HD81B1X5 Analog [92HD81B1X5 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The output of aplay -L

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=MID
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=MID
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    Front speakers
surround21:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, 92HD81B1X5 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output

The contents of /proc/asound/cards

 0 [MID            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
                      HDA Intel MID at 0xfbd00000 irq 32

The contents of /proc/asound/devices

  2: [ 0]   : control
  3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  5: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback
  6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
  7: [ 0- 3]: hardware dependent
 33:        : timer

/etc/asound.conf is empty and my user has no .asoundrc file in its home directory.

I ran the ALSA Information Script and the results of that can be found here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated; this is a very frustrating issue. Thank you very much!

mich41

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Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 796

Re: No sound with ALSA and/or Pulse from built-in Intel 5 Series Card

And what solution was that? You may need to find a working model= setting, especially if it is a laptop.

Bersam

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Registered: 2010-10-03

Posts: 32

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Re: No sound with ALSA and/or Pulse from built-in Intel 5 Series Card

same problem with me on Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series.

actually, internal speakers works, it's just on mute (you can change it with alsamixer), but headphone/external speakers doesn't work. and there's no sound card detected in gnome control center -> audio section.

"00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)"

Bersam

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Registered: 2010-10-03

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Re: No sound with ALSA and/or Pulse from built-in Intel 5 Series Card

my problem solved after removing "~/.pulse" and restarting alsa. (i also tried reinstalling pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa, ...)