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Hello all,
I can not get my headphones/speakers to emit any sound. This seems to be the same on Arch and even Ubuntu. I have tried configuring the asoundrc file, changing the default sound device, unmuting ALSA, uninstalling pulseaudio, testing with aplay -D plughw, I I have even tried reinstalling, nothing will work, I have read the ALSA docs as well.
My speakers have worked once when I plugged a different monitor in, never again.
Debugging information
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: CA0132 Digital [CA0132 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
Front speakers
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CA0132 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
HDA NVidia, HDMI 2
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 3
HDMI Audio Output
amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 99
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 94 [95%] [4.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 94 [95%] [4.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic SVM',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic1-Boost (30dB)',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 99
Front Left: Capture 99 [100%] [9.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 99 [100%] [9.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'AMic1/DMic',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'AMic1/DMic Auto Detect',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Analog-Mic2',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 99
Front Left: Capture 90 [91%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 90 [91%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'CrystalVoice',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Crystalizer',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Dialog Plus',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Echo Cancellation',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Equalizer',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'HP/Speaker',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'HP/Speaker Auto Detect',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Noise Reduction',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'PlayEnhancement',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Smart Volume',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Voice Focus',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'VoiceFX',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Neutral' 'Female2Male' 'Male2Female' 'ScrappyKid' 'Elderly' 'Orc' 'Elf' 'Dwarf' 'AlienBrute' 'Robot' 'Marine' 'Emo' 'DeepVoice' 'Munchkin'
Item0: 'Neutral'
Simple mixer control 'What U Hear',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 99
Front Left: Capture 90 [91%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 90 [91%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'X-Bass',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 53248 1
snd_hda_codec_ca0132 45056 1
snd_hda_intel 28672 5
snd_hda_controller 28672 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_soc_rt5640 86016 0
snd_hda_codec 98304 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller,snd_hda_codec_ca0132
snd_soc_rl6231 16384 1 snd_soc_rt5640
snd_hda_core 28672 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_controller,snd_hda_codec_ca0132
snd_soc_core 159744 1 snd_soc_rt5640
snd_compress 20480 1 snd_soc_core
snd_hwdep 16384 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_dmaengine 16384 1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm 90112 7 snd_soc_rt5640,snd_soc_core,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_timer 28672 1 snd_pcm
snd 69632 19 snd_soc_core,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_compress,snd_hda_codec_ca0132
soundcore 16384 1 snd
regmap_i2c 16384 1 snd_soc_rt5640
snd_soc_sst_acpi 16384 0
i2c_core 49152 9 drm,i2c_i801,snd_soc_rt5640,i2c_hid,i2c_designware_platform,regmap_i2c,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau
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Judging from the codec you have a creative card, they are notorious for having issues like that because creative provides zero support for their cards on linux. From what I gather from various google results one way to temporarily initialize them is to start up windows and then reboot into linux. But you'd have to do that each time you turn off your computer. Some other thing that might help is loading intel_hda with the position fix somewhere in modprobe.d
snd_hda_intel position_fix=1
but as it stands, they are hard to get working. As it happens my next build will include a creative onboard (the mobo had other features which did outweigh the shitty card) so I might investigate somewhat more in depth, if it doesn't work I'm probably gonna buy a supported ASUS card, which is another option short of hoping creative provides enough information/the ALSA devs figure something out
Last edited by V1del (2015-09-14 16:56:01)
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Judging from the codec you have a creative card, they are notorious for having issues like that because creative provides zero support for their cards on linux. From what I gather from various google results one way to temporarily initialize them is to start up windows and then reboot into linux. But you'd have to do that each time you turn off your computer. Some other thing that might help is loading intel_hda with the position fix somewhere in modprobe.d
snd_hda_intel position_fix=1
but as it stands, they are hard to get working. As it happens my next build will include a creative onboard (the mobo had other features which did outweigh the shitty card) so I might investigate somewhat more in depth, if it doesn't work I'm probably gonna buy a supported ASUS card, which is another option short of hoping creative provides enough information/the ALSA devs figure something out
Thank you for the help, I had no idea it was a driver issue.
It's strange since the kernel introduced this
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTEwNTg
Perhaps there are drivers out there for this card
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Do you know which card model you are using? Mine is a Creative Soundblaster Z, and I never achieved to use it with Linux.
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Do you know which card model you are using? Mine is a Creative Soundblaster Z, and I never achieved to use it with Linux.
Creative Sound Core3D
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Yes to the extent the driver can provide support that's what you get. I also read the phoronix article but it looks like it laid itself out a bit too optimistically if you read the actual commit message which introduced the support it already says only the most basic stuff works and if you google past the phoronix link you will find quite a few bug reports that are unresolved to this day. Apparently the digital out works, the analog ports are up to complete chance if they decide to work or not
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Yes to the extent the driver can provide support that's what you get. I also read the phoronix article but it looks like it laid itself out a bit too optimistically if you read the actual commit message which introduced the support it already says only the most basic stuff works and if you google past the phoronix link you will find quite a few bug reports that are unresolved to this day. Apparently the digital out works, the analog ports are up to complete chance if they decide to work or not
Interesting, by digital that is an S/PDIF port? whereas analog is the 3.5mm jack?
Are you aware if the kernel supports t the ASUS Xonar DG? From the ALSA support page, it shows support is available from kernel 3.1.
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Honestly, after more years (yes years) than I care to remember trying to get a Creative card to function as I wanted, I removed it and went to onboard. Not had a problem since.
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The sad thing is, this card is an onboard one. My first pc on which I put linux on had a Xi-Fi which worked pretty well though... an apparently the emuk series of creative cards had a completely open and very capable driver from what I gather
@Jaybruh
Yes s/PDIF should work, dunno about the ASUS card but if alsa wiki says they work that's probably true, there were a few people here that had working ASUS cards no idea as to which the exact model is. I'm going to look into this more in-depth when I get to build my new PC which is about a month from now, maybe the creative situation has bettered then
Last edited by V1del (2015-09-14 19:56:02)
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A small glimmer of hope comes in version 4.2 of the kernel. They changed the CA1032 quirk code and added a quirk specific to the Alienware 15. You might give that a shot when it arrives. Even so, Takashi (ALSA dev) says the following:
Even with this fix, not all stuff works perfectly yet, mainly because of the badly written ca0132 driver code -- it has too many implicit assumptions of pin configs and maps. Nevertheless, this is a small good step forward.
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