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Squiffy

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Registered: 2017-03-10

Posts: 18

No Sound (G1 Sniper M5)

I have never heard sound from this PC when in a Linux environment. It's never worked on Arch, and never worked on Ubuntu or Xubuntu, and never worked through Linux VMs on Windows (tried Kali & Mandriva) so I think its safe to say that I dont get audio out of Linux in general. I have set up my laptop with Arch and get sound of that fine.

My MB is the Gigabyte G1 Sniper M5 with onboard Creative Sound Core3D Audio.

In Alsamixer I have 3 Sound Cards (HDA Intel HDMI, HDA Intel PCH, HDA Nvidia) and I can't get sound through either the HDMI cable or the Aux cable through PCH. Only the PCH card has an option to be unmuted in alsamixer.

There is a quiet white noise sound at all times. The noise is constant and does not vary with potential sound output from applications.

This enigma has been a part of my life since about 4 years ago when I first downloaded Ubuntu to this PC. Any steps in the right direction to get this working would be hugely appreciated. Here's relevant audio info from lspci -v

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
	Memory at d3914000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
	Memory at d3910000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM204 High Definition Audio Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at d3080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

Last edited by Squiffy (2018-03-12 14:10:15)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,246

Re: No Sound (G1 Sniper M5)

Creative Sound3D are a pain,  only a few number of Alienware laptops boards do have support because they contain custom built mapping information, there is really not much you can do here. Something that might help is loading, in a /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf or similar

options snd_hda_intel position_fix=1

and/or seeing if you manage to rewire at least one working port in hdajackretask.

None of these are guaranteed and failsafe though.

Squiffy

Member

Registered: 2017-03-10

Posts: 18

Re: No Sound (G1 Sniper M5)

Creative Sound3D are a pain,  only a few number of Alienware laptops boards do have support because they contain custom built mapping information, there is really not much you can do here. Something that might help is loading, in a /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf or similar

options snd_hda_intel position_fix=1

and/or seeing if you manage to rewire at least one working port in hdajackretask.

None of these are guaranteed and failsafe though.

Passing in the module parameter alone has made no apparent change. None of the ports are working

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,246

Re: No Sound (G1 Sniper M5)

Then you are likely out of luck, using an USB audio card/headset as an intermediate likely the most time efficient solution.

Creative doesn't provide any docs for their cards and the driver is in a pretty bad shape...

Last edited by V1del (2018-03-12 19:31:26)