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ThomasN

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Registered: 2016-02-03

Posts: 31

No sound - aplay: no soundcards found

I installed Arch for the first time yesterday and, after a bit of help from the forum, I have a working install. However, I don't have sound yet.

I  have added myself to the 'audio' group and installed alsa-utils.

amixer sset Master unmute outputs:

amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

alsamixer gives:

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

aplay -l outputs:

aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

I installed alsa-firmware, to see if that was the problem, but it didn't change anything.

basica

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From: Australia

Registered: 2012-10-31

Posts: 217

Re: No sound - aplay: no soundcards found

if you go "sudo alsamixer" do any devices show up?
Also, does "cat /proc/asound/cards" show anything?

ThomasN

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Registered: 2016-02-03

Posts: 31

Re: No sound - aplay: no soundcards found

Thanks for your reply.

sudo alsamixer also gives 'cannot open mixer: No such file or directory'

cat /proc/asound/cards gives 'no soundcards'.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,196

Re: No sound - aplay: no soundcards found

It's impossible for asound cards or alsamixer to give anything if aplay -l already turns up empty. Does

dmesg | grep -E 'snd|hda|ALSA'

give anything? What is your soundcard? Does

lspci -k

detect anything?

Last edited by V1del (2016-09-15 11:32:03)

ThomasN

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Registered: 2016-02-03

Posts: 31

Re: No sound - aplay: no soundcards found

Output of dmesg | grep -E 'snd|hda|ALSA'

[    2.984786] Modules linked in: ath10k_pci(+) ath10k_core ath mac80211 i915(+) cfg80211 rfkill drm_kms_helper drm intel_gtt syscopyarea mei_txe sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops i2c_algo_bit mei lpc_ich shpchp processor_thermal_device intel_soc_dts_iosf snd_intel_sst_acpi snd_intel_sst_core thermal snd_soc_sst_mfld_platform wmi snd_soc_sst_match snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine ac97_bus snd_pcm fjes snd_timer intel_hid snd sparse_keymap i2c_designware_platform(+) soundcore i2c_designware_core 8250_dw spi_pxa2xx_platform tpm_crb int3406_thermal video acpi_pad int3403_thermal int340x_thermal_zone int3400_thermal acpi_thermal_rel asus_wireless tpm_tis pinctrl_cherryview ac tpm button sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache mmc_block xhci_pci xhci_hcd usbcore usb_common sdhci_acpi

Output of lspci -k:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2280 (rev 22)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 10b0
	Kernel driver in use: iosf_mbi_pci
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b0 (rev 22)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 10b0
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
00:0b.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 22dc (rev 22)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 10b0
	Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
	Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b5 (rev 22)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 10b0
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Device 2298 (rev 22)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 10b0
	Kernel driver in use: mei_txe
	Kernel modules: mei_txe
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22c8 (rev 22)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 229c (rev 22)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 10b0
	Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
	Kernel modules: lpc_ich
01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30)
	Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2b31
	Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
	Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

I don't think any of those are the soundcard.

The Asus website says the device has "SonicMaster Audio Technology", but I assume that's just marketing speak.

ThomasN

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Registered: 2016-02-03

Posts: 31

Re: No sound - aplay: no soundcards found

Digging around a bit, I've found that, unfortunately, there is no driver available yet.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115531

It's still a nice little sub-1kg laptop, so I'll just make do without sound until a driver is available.