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treefiddy

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 8

No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

Hello Everyone,
So I have Arch x86_64 on my Gateway 6860FX and sound on my headphones works perfectly but I can't get any sound on the built in speakers.

Here's the output of my lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_usb_audio         100672  0
snd_usb_lib            19968  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            25248  1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_dummy           5380  0
snd_seq_oss            33792  0
snd_seq_midi_event      9344  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                58912  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          9620  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec_idt      70144  1
snd_hda_intel          31112  5
snd_hda_codec          70272  2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              10760  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            45600  0
snd_pcm                83080  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24848  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11920  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          18816  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    68296  23 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

And a ls -l /dev/snd
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2009-02-16 00:52 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  5 2009-02-16 00:52 hwC0D1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  6 2009-02-16 00:52 hwC0D2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2009-02-16 00:52 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2009-02-16 00:54 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2009-02-16 00:52 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2009-02-16 00:52 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-02-16 00:52 timer

I have tried the following fixes so far but they don't seem to work:
Recompiling ALSA from source
No Sound with Onboard Intel Sound Card - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA

Last edited by treefiddy (2009-05-06 20:04:07)

The_ouroboros

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From: Pavia, Italy

Registered: 2007-05-28

Posts: 140

Re: No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

try http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Intel-HDA_sound_problems

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treefiddy

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 8

Re: No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

This is what I get from the first part of the tutorial
bash-3.2# head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec#1
Codec: LSI ID 1040
bash-3.2# head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec#2
Codec: IDT 92HD71B8X

But then I can't find any Documentation folder in /usr/src/linux-2.6.28-Arch

The_ouroboros

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From: Pavia, Italy

Registered: 2007-05-28

Posts: 140

Re: No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

take a look here.. http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Document … ration.txt

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treefiddy

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 8

Re: No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

After weeks of no sound, I gave up. But now I have a solution
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1073090
Gateway PFX models have a similar soundcard to HP Pavilion DV laptops (My soundcard: IDT 92HD71B8X) so this fix worked. For posterities sake, I'll post the solution here for Arch users since it's not exactly the same.

#> sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/sound
[add 'options snd_hda_intel model=hp-dv5' sans quotes to the bottom of the file, even if you have a dv4, etc.]
#> sudo reboot

I'm glad I finally have my speakers working on my Gateway 6860FX

omniwolf

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From: mechanical Engineering student

Registered: 2004-12-11

Posts: 17

Re: No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

OMFG you are awesome, who would've even tried that!!!!
Thank you!
this information is literally nowhere else in the entire interwebs!!

I was going insane, I also have a Gateway P-6860FX running THE best linux distro out there, Archlinux of course!
I had it partially working with:

options snd_hda_intel model=notebook

which I got from http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
but my speakers never worked until I found your post, so I was using a craptastic USB soundcard I found in my garage.

While I'm at it lemme post my ".asoundrc" which took me about a week of research to construct.

  I had to do it this way because if I played ANY sound through any program while firefox was open on a page containing flash, all of the sound system was completely lost and mute until I restarted Firefox and/or the X session. Meaning no amarok while on the net if I planned on seeing any flash videos during my entire surfing session.

This configuration should work with ANY sound card that lacks a hardware mixer and uses dmix with the following effects:

1. OSS, AOSS and ALSA sound apps/games can share audio output without distortion

2. A new virtual soundcard called "My Soundcard with extra Volume Control" will show up under kde4 that feeds into the software mixer

3. A new volume control will show up in all your alsamixer apps that allows you to control the volume of all ALSA apps, OSS apps, while still mixed are only affected by the master volume.

~/.asoundrc

#/etc/asound.conf start:
#pcm.!default pcm.softvolPhonon

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "softvolPhonon"
}

#list card for phonon
pcm.softvolPhonon {
    type softvol
    slave.pcm "dmixer"
    control {
        name "Phonon"
        card 0
    }
    min_dB -51.0
    max_dB 0.0
    resolution 100
    hint {
        show on
        description "My Soundcard with extra Volume Control"
    }
}
#endofphonon

pcm.dsp0 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "softvolPhonon"
}
pcm.dmixer {
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    slave {
        pcm "hw:0,0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 8192
        rate 48000   #many new cards are 48000 only
    }
    bindings {
        0 0
        1 1
    }
}

ctl.dmixer {
    type hw
    card 0
  device 0
}

#end.

if you have more than one sound card and want to use the second, just change "hw:0,0" part to "hw:1,0" and "card 0" to "card 1", this has the affect of changing the default sound card systemwide, without having to mess with each program's settings.

treefiddy

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 8

Re: No Sound on Speakers w/ ALSA [Solved]

The default soundcard issue (if you have more than one sound card e.g integrated & usb) can be resolved with a program called asoundconf which creates and edits your .asoundrc on the fly when you select a sound card to be your default one. asoundconf is either in AUR or community, i can't recall atm.