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Snowboney

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Registered: 2021-10-26

Posts: 3

Sound not working at all.

Hi,

I have an issue with my sound not working on my T480 at all. Installed ALSA, PulseAudio and pavucontrol as well. I'm using xfce4. My volume mixer icon disappeared from the top panel as well.

pulseaudio -vvvvv
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 15.0
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: Not yet supported on meson
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 5.10.75-1-lts #1 SMP Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:02:09 +0000
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 8 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running from build tree: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: All asserts enabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 1f6869d0f6cd41d2a7fe9d144454073e.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 2.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/adam/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-15.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]

Any help is greatly appreciated.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: Sound not working at all.

Nothing useful in these outputs, try

aplay -l
amixer -c0
pacmd list-cards
sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'

Snowboney

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Registered: 2021-10-26

Posts: 3

Re: Sound not working at all.

These are the outputs.

aplay -l
aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...

amixer -c0
Invalid card number '0'.

pacmd list-cards
0 card(s) available.

sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'
[    0.566657] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[    0.806261] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.806264] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x0000000089b6b000-0x000000008db6b000] (64MB)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: Sound not working at all.

This does look pretty dead. But also, why are you using the LTS kernel? Test the main kernel, and fwiw install sof-firmware though the current output has no pointer to that but that could just be due to the old kernel.

Last edited by V1del (2021-10-26 20:03:04)