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sgf2

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Registered: 2010-03-27

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No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

Hi,

I cannot get sound to work on my new Sony Vaio laptop.  It says I am using the snd-hda-intel driver and alsamixer works fine to setup the volume levels, but no sound works when trying to watch videos or playing a wav file.

I am using Archlinux x86_64

uname -r produces 2.6.32-ARCH

The output of lspci -vv | grep Audio is:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)

The ouput of aplay -l is:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: INTEL HDMI [INTEL HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The output of lsmod | grep snd* is:
snd_seq_dummy           1439  0
snd_seq_oss            29023  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5316  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50558  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5181  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            39011  0
snd_mixer_oss          17299  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi    11750  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   250431  1
snd_hda_intel          21874  1
snd_hda_codec          63659  3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6340  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                70222  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              18799  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    57408  14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6095  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7033  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

The contents of /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop 

Does anyone have any suggestion of what I can try to get my sound to work?

Thanks in advance

pierissimo

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Registered: 2010-03-07

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

post the output of

ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders

sgf2

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Registered: 2010-03-27

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

The output of:

ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi -> ../../snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 28 07:34 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer

OrionFyre

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Registered: 2008-03-16

Posts: 68

Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

Start playing music. plug in your headphones and unplug them. Got sound?

xoey7

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Registered: 2009-05-20

Posts: 22

Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

When I had a vaio, I used:

options snd-hda-intel model=vaio

sgf2

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Registered: 2010-03-27

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

I tried the headphone trick and that didn't work.  I also tried the model=vaio option and this did not work either.  For the ALC269 chip the only models that work are basic, quanta, asus_amic, asus_dmic, fujitsu, lifebook, and auto.  I have tried all of them and I still do not have sound. 

I have noticed a faint sound through my headphones so I believe the drivers are working.  It also seems like the volume is turned down but it is not. 

I read on other posts to use a tool called hda analyzer.  I used the tool and changed one option on pin 0x19 VREF to HIZ and now my sound works.  The only problem is I have to run the tool every time I reboot to get my sound to work.  If anybody has any ideas on how to make this change permanent, please let me know.

tumbler

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Registered: 2010-04-21

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

I had the same problem with my VPC-EB1M1R and hda analyzer really enabled the sound to the first reboot. Now the problem is fixed in alsa 1.0.23 release.

Last edited by tumbler (2010-04-21 14:23:14)

tumbler

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Registered: 2010-04-21

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

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Last edited by tumbler (2010-04-21 14:23:47)

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

what is the meaning of '*'?

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SeaWolf

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Registered: 2009-03-30

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Re: No sound on Sony Vaio VPCEB11FM

I had the same problem with my VPC-EB1M1R and hda analyzer really enabled the sound to the first reboot. Now the problem is fixed in alsa 1.0.23 release.

I have a VAIO VPC-EB1E1E with the same chipset (ALC269).
With alsa 1.0.22, I could get sound through the headphones (but not through the laptop speakers) if I used model=generic.

This is from alsa 1.0.23 changelog (http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index. … 22_v1.0.23) :

- ALSA: hda - Add fix-up for Sony VAIO with ALC269 
Sony VAIO models with ALC269 need to initialize the pin 0x19 to VREF 
ground or Hi-Z to make the headphone working. Other than that, model=auto 
works fine, so let's use model=auto with a specific fix-up table.

I compiled and installed alsa 1.0.23, but it didn't change anything.
This is my /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf :

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

and /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf :

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

"model=auto" doesn't give any sound, except if I use HDA Analyzer to change the pin 0x19 to VREF ground or Hi-Z, then I can get sound through speakers, and I can use headphones as well. But I need to do that each time I boot...

Or I can use the same trick that I was using with 1.0.22, using "model=generic" to get sound through the headphones.

Have you done anything special after installing alsa 1.0.23 ?

Last edited by SeaWolf (2010-04-28 09:19:41)