[SOLVED] No sound after installing NVIDIA driver

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-24 19:21:56

I have just got a new graphics card (NVIDIA GT 610) and I have installed the proprietary driver for it. My PC has in-built Intel GPU. I had a problem with that that was fairly straight forward to fix. I blacklisted the i915, intel_agp modules as suggested here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … grated_GPU. But I now have no sound. I am almost certain that this is because there is an in-built sound card that I have now blacklisted because before I blacklisted those modules sound seemed to be working fine.

I'm not sure of any great diagnostics tools for sound but speaker-test outputs:

speaker-test 1.0.27.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

And aplay -l outputs:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

If anyone has any ideas on how I could go about fixing this or what I can try playing with I would very thankful.
--nontlikeuname

Last edited by nontlikeuname (2014-12-30 19:45:40)

Rasi · 2014-03-24 19:56:17

just change the default soundcard....

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … sound_card

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-24 20:16:06

That hasn't work but I'm not sure whether I did it properly.

I did cat /proc/asound/modules:

 0 snd_hda_intel
 1 snd_intel8x0

and set /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf to

options snd slots=snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0
options snd_hda_intel=0
options snd_intel8x0=1

I'm not sure if its of any use but lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t ouput:

snd_hda_codec_hdmi  32723   1
snd_hda_intel       31703   1
snd_intel8x0        23593   1
snd_ac97_codec      89368   1   snd_intel8x0
snd_hda_codec       129306  2   snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep           4746    1   snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm             64085   5   snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc      6102    3   snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer           14974   1   snd_pcm
snd                 44446   12  snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel

Last edited by nontlikeuname (2014-03-24 20:17:05)

Rasi · 2014-03-24 20:20:19

well did your aplay output change?

you could also just blacklist the snd_hda_codec_hdmi module

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-24 20:30:21

My aplay output is identical, my lsmod output is much the same with a slightly different order and blacklisting snd_hda_codec_hdmi doesn't seem to have worked.

Rasi · 2014-03-25 17:06:28

it should. but if everything else fails, just install pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa, pavucontrol and start it with "pulseaudio --start" (as user)
then start pavucontrol. there you can easily manage your soundcards.

Last edited by Rasi (2014-03-25 17:07:02)

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-25 18:53:13

When I run pavucontrol, I can view things as expected but I don't seem able to set the deafault audio card. The speakers make a sound as expected when I change the volume of the built in audio but other programs don't seem to use this setting.
Screenshots: imgur.com/a/jMkRd

Inxsible · 2014-03-25 19:18:44

are you sure its NVidia at fault and not the linux kernel related as in this thread -- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179050 ?

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-25 19:26:04

I am not sure it is nvidia's fault as such but it is something to do with the nvidia or the need to block certain modules loading (intel_agp and i915). I have the linux kernel that is stated to work in the other thread.(3.13.6-1) And I can get sound to work with this kernel if I go back to in built gpu and audio, remove drivers, reverse settings, etc.

Rasi · 2014-03-25 20:07:02

nontlikeuname wrote:

When I run pavucontrol, I can view things as expected but I don't seem able to set the deafault audio card. The speakers make a sound as expected when I change the volume of the built in audio but other programs don't seem to use this setting.
Screenshots: imgur.com/a/jMkRd

~~seems perfect to me. try setting the nvidia card to "off"~~

what other profiles exist for your intel card?

Last edited by Rasi (2014-03-25 20:53:55)

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-25 20:09:33

How do I do that, I thought that is what I had done in image 3 of 4

Rasi · 2014-03-25 20:52:48

nontlikeuname wrote:

How do I do that, I thought that is what I had done in image 3 of 4

hmm? seems you were too fast with your answer

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-25 21:04:44

I have these options : http://imgur.com/OxHX8W0

nontlikeuname · 2014-03-30 09:43:31

Managed to fix the problem by opening alsa audio properties then Intel ICH5 as sound card and Master Surround as mixer track http://imgur.com/a/KDfHU

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