[Solved] No audio (fresh install)

joanmanel · 2016-05-05 15:20:30

First of all, the audio does work under windows (dual boot), so it is not a hardware problem.

output from uname -a Linux sparklingtoo 4.5.1-1-ARCH

I have tried both with only alsa and pulseaudio, same output, no audio.

speaker test only works with speaker-test -t sine -D plughw:1,0

speaker test alone, for example, doesnt work.

interesting output from pulseaudio, I get:

E: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.

pacmd list-sinks gives me: https://ptpb.pw/5jhH

I have been trying to get this working for the last 3-4 weeks, and I don't manage to get it.

I also downgraded my kernel to LTS, same problem.

The sound card is the integrated one.

The cpu is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690

as said, i don't know what else to try. thanks for any help!

Last edited by joanmanel (2016-06-15 15:23:37)

V1del · 2016-05-05 22:49:02

Are you saying that speaker-test works with the specified card? Can you post

aplay -l
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

in [ code ] tags? Might be one of the MIDI services blocking access to your card like e.g. in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212083

Last edited by V1del (2016-05-05 22:50:03)

joanmanel · 2016-05-06 09:56:20

V1del wrote:

Are you saying that speaker-test works with the specified card? Can you post
aplay -l
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
in [ code ] tags? Might be one of the MIDI services blocking access to your card like e.g. in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212083

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  juanma     8237 F.... pulseaudio

Checking your link, I don't have neither of those packages installed

joanmanel · 2016-05-23 10:46:40

I am just bumping this up to see if anyone can help me. I still have no audio.

V1del · 2016-05-23 11:01:21

Yeah sorry this one fell off a bit. Output of the two commands looks fine, can you try resetting pulseaudio configuration by removing ~/.config/pulse and restarting it afterwards? If that didn't help can you post your /etc/pulse/default.pa and the output of the last command of the following set

systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -vvv

Do you have an /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc (you should have an etc/asound.conf that redirects ALSA output to pulse, but nothing more)

Last edited by V1del (2016-05-23 13:20:47)

dockland · 2016-05-23 12:22:51

I had some trouble a time ago with Alsa, this page saved me, so i saved the page back

http://darmawan-salihun.blogspot.se/201 … oblem.html

joanmanel · 2016-05-23 12:54:04

V1del wrote:

Yeah sorry this one fell off a bit. Output of the two commands looks fine, can you try resetting pulseaudio configuration by removing ~/.config/pulse and restarting it afterwards? If that didn't help can you post your /etc/default.pa and the output of the last command of the following set
systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -vvv
Do you have an /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc (you should have an etc/asound.conf that redirects ALSA output to pulse, but nothing more)

Restarting didn't work.

I don't have a file called default.pa

The output from pulseaudio -vvv is 1467 lines. I don't know if you want to see something in particular, but if I copy paste it here can get a bit crazy

I have an etc asound.conf, like this:

  # Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

thanks for your help!

joanmanel · 2016-05-23 13:05:30

dockland wrote:

I had some trouble a time ago with Alsa, this page saved me, so i saved the page back
http://darmawan-salihun.blogspot.se/201 … oblem.html

I have tried that, it looked very good because it seems to be my exact problem, and after following it now I have the PCH as card 0 (and HDMI as 1). But I have still no audio.

speaker-test

speaker-test 1.1.1

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1029:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

thank you very much. I think soon I will have sound again. hopefully!

V1del · 2016-05-23 13:20:29

Gah this is like the third time I fumbled the path your /etc/pulse/default.pa is what I need. While setting the index will be beneficial anyway if you are using pulseaudio they don't matter as much. Post the whole pulseaudio -vvv contents to some pastebin client somewhere, i'd like to have the full output. And because you didn't specifically mention it: You did remove your ~/.config/pulse folder?

Last edited by V1del (2016-05-23 13:29:09)

dockland · 2016-05-23 13:21:24

joanmanel wrote:

dockland wrote:
I had some trouble a time ago with Alsa, this page saved me, so i saved the page back
http://darmawan-salihun.blogspot.se/201 … oblem.html
I have tried that, it looked very good because it seems to be my exact problem, and after following it now I have the PCH as card 0 (and HDMI as 1). But I have still no audio.
speaker-test

speaker-test 1.1.1

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1029:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory
thank you very much. I think soon I will have sound again. hopefully!

I dont remember exactly, but it might require a log off and back in

V1del · 2016-05-23 13:27:39

@dockland it would require a reboot or a rmmod/modprobe, but we're already past that stage if he has the PCH as index 0.

@joanmanel Something like

dmesg | grep 'snd|hda'

might also help, but I don't think that the kernel is the underlying issue

Last edited by V1del (2016-05-23 13:28:19)

joanmanel · 2016-05-24 11:35:47

V1del wrote:

@dockland it would require a reboot or a rmmod/modprobe, but we're already past that stage if he has the PCH as index 0.
@joanmanel Something like
dmesg | grep 'snd|hda'
might also help, but I don't think that the kernel is the underlying issue

This is my default.pa

#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)

.nofail

### Load something into the sample cache
#load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga
#load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga
#load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga
#load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/message.oga

.fail

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
load-module module-switch-on-port-available

### Load audio drivers statically
### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead
### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif

### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif

.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish

### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv

### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 sink_properties="device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor

### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif

### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-role-cork

### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

# X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon
# can be shared by multiple sessions.

### Load X11 bell module
#load-module module-x11-bell sample=x11-bell

### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager
#load-module module-x11-xsmp

### Publish connection data in the X11 root window
#.ifexists module-x11-publish.so
#.nofail
#load-module module-x11-publish
#.fail
#.endif

### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

and the dmesg

[    5.086771] snd_hda_intel: unknown parameter 'vid' ignored
[    5.086773] snd_hda_intel: unknown parameter 'pid' ignored
[    5.086774] snd_hda_intel: unknown parameter 'vid' ignored
[    5.086775] snd_hda_intel: unknown parameter 'pid' ignored
[    5.094382] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    5.100082] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2: autoconfig for ALC887-VD: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
[    5.100083] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    5.100083] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    5.100084] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    5.100084] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    inputs:
[    5.100085] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      Rear Mic=0x18
[    5.100085] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      Front Mic=0x19
[    5.100086] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      Line=0x1a
[    5.100087] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      CD=0x1c

joanmanel · 2016-06-04 15:27:13

I am bumping this up in case anyone can help me. Still no sound

Dotslash · 2016-06-06 08:27:12

Don't know if it would help, but for my sound card "C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" I open pavucontrol and go to the Configuration tab and disable all that I'm not using. Then I open alsamixer by typing alsamixer -c 2 or hitting F6 after to choose the right card and switching a setting called analog output from Stereo Headphones FP (which gives no sound) to Stereo Headphones.

joanmanel · 2016-06-15 13:44:54

That doesn't work. I can only see the HDMI ones.

Also, I have installed Gnome (before I had i3) to see if it was related somehow to the DE, but it is not. With Gnome it is also not working

V1del · 2016-06-15 13:58:29

I'm also with the alsamixer suggestion maybe there's a control switch, can you post

amixer -c0 #Given the integrated card is still index 0

if we don't find anything there you might be able to experiment and fix your PIN layout with hdajackretask

Adding the output of a verbose pulse start as detailed in one of my earlier posts might also help

Last edited by V1del (2016-06-15 14:00:41)

joanmanel · 2016-06-15 14:02:03

V1del wrote:

I'm also with the alsamixer suggestion maybe there's a control switch, can you post
amixer -c0 #Given the integrated card is still index 0
if we don't find anything there you might be able to experiment and fix your PIN layout with hdajackretask

amixer -c0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]

amixer -c1
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 20 [65%] [-4.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 20 [65%] [-4.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 46
  Front Left: Capture 28 [61%] [12.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 28 [61%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 46
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch'
  Item0: '2ch'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Rear Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Rear Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 1 [33%] [10.00dB]
  Front Right: 1 [33%] [10.00dB]

joanmanel · 2016-06-15 15:23:23

A fresh installation solved the issue. I have sound again. No idea what went wrong. This time I installed gnome, when before I installed i3

Arch Linux

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