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ewaller

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Let's try a different approach.   Use amixer, and change your sound card to your Intel Analog card.  Is there a control called Auto Mute?  Try turning it off.

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Malkymder

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Are you sure Speakers are still working ?

Malkymder

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Aside from Antergos you could try using Linux mint liveCD to test as it does alot of the config out of the box for you on multimedia

Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Sorry but i don't understand how to configure all with amixer. I searched a guide or similar and all are incomprehensible for me
The speakers: in windows works and with Lubuntu (i don't like Ubuntu, Mint or something similar) too.
I need to solve that problem in arch, the boot only takes 15 seconds and is very very fast surfing the web, is spectacular!!!

ewaller

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

You can also use alsamixer.  I should have proposed that first.  Sorry.

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Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

I thinking to try...reinstall all the system and use only alsa, without installing pulseaudio. Is possible to solve the problem doing this??

ewaller

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

I thinking to try...reinstall all the system

Not the best solution.  Certainly not necessary for non-toy operating systems

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

reinstall all the system and use only alsa, without installing pulseaudio

Couldn't you just remove pulseaudio?

# pacman -Rns pulseaudio

You may have to set your default card manually if you do this.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … sound_card

Which desktop environment/window manager are you using?

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Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

I use xfce.
I uninstalled pulse and now in alsamixer when i press F6 only shows one card, but the problem is the same.
I think too, the channel from speakers is muted, because the sound card is detected and i have sound....but i don't understand that...
The command aplay -l shows this:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC880 Analog [ALC880 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC880 Digital [ALC880 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I don't understand manual configurations, modyfing and creating files, i tryed many different things and nothing new happened...
I found that: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142560 says about hda analyzer to solve the problem, but i don't know how to use and do what the user walkyrie says.
Edit: i typed the command dmesg:

dmesg | grep hda
[    7.702474] sound hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC880: line_outs=1 (0x16/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
[    7.702479] sound hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=1 (0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    7.702483] sound hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    7.702485] sound hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    7.702488] sound hdaudioC0D0:    dig-out=0x1e/0x0
[    7.702490] sound hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
[    7.702493] sound hdaudioC0D0:      Internal Mic=0x15
[    7.702497] sound hdaudioC0D0:      Mic=0x18
[    7.702500] sound hdaudioC0D0:      Mic=0x19
[    7.702502] sound hdaudioC0D0:      Line=0x1a
[    7.702505] sound hdaudioC0D0:      Line=0x14
[    7.750543] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/hdaudioC0D0/input11

for what it's worth...I added options snd-hda-intel model= (lg, auto,...) to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, but i don't know if load that file the system...all the posts i see are very old.
Edit2:
I see diferences between dmesg | grep hda messages in Lubuntu (the speakers work) and dmesg here. I don't know if i can post here the output of lubuntu, it may be that of a clue...
Edit3: another detail, "front" is not muted on alsamixer but is set to 0 and is impossible to up volume. In the alsamixer gui on xfce, the "front" volume not appears.

Last edited by Dertuny (2015-06-28 11:42:19)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

i tryed many different things and nothing new happened...

Please explicitly list all the methods you have tried to avoid duplication of effort.

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Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Well, i tried to add things to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. I add options snd-hda-intel model=auto,lg..and others (i don't remember all, i tried things for 10 days and a lot of hours) basically, all files i added to modprobe.d not changed nothing. The last try, copy all the modprobe.d folder on Lubuntu to Arch, nothing good and nothing bad happened.
I remember added something to asoundrc, nothing happened.
No problem to repeat all, is possible I do something wrong, when i see that nothing happened with changes (good or bad) i think that i not doing the correct steps....i'm very noob on linux.
Thanks all for help.

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

i tried things for 10 days and a lot of hours

I only made the suggestion yesterday...

If you can't follow the instructions on the ArchWiki page I linked then Arch is probably not for you.

If you insist on persisting, post the output of:

lspci -k|grep -iA2 audio

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Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Before i posted this message i tried all i found on forums and other, when i saw nothing helps me, i posted that question here.
I try to do the best i can following the wikis, is difficult for me read and write in english, but i think i do all that says correct...i re-tried your link and nothing happened. All i try with alsa-base.conf not changes nothing apparently.
Of course, I try not to stop until I get fix.

lspci -k|grep -iA2 audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device 0067
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

And a lot of thanks for your patience.
Edit: for if it is useful. I booteed a live of manjaro lxqt and the speakers worked. Uses the 3.16 kernel. Lubuntu uses 3.16 kernel and the speakers work too.
Now i using the linux 4.0.6 kernel on arch.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

I booteed a live of manjaro lxqt and the speakers worked

You should use Manjaro.

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Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

I like arch, the boot only takes 10 seconds and firefox runs very very fast. Manjaro is more slow, and i don't like it...
If is not possible to solve the problem with speakers, i will use lubuntu.

Malkymder

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

You could install arch LTS kernel and run that to see if it is related to an issue with the kernel

sudo pacman -S linux-lts

be sure to select the correct kernel with grub menu

P.S.
the current LTS kernel is 3.14.45-1 as of this post

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Dertuny

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

THAT'S IT!!!
Problem solved with lts kernel.
I tryed this kernel last day but it activated an horrible beep from internal speaker, i searched how to disable it and i found this wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … eaker_beep, and bye stupid beep.
All problems solved with this notebook for now.
I think Arch is a great distro and is the fastest compared with others i tried.
A lot of thanks for the help.

Malkymder

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Re: No sound to the speakers [SOLVED]

Woot

Remember to mark thread as solved.

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