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#1 2015-08-08 05:11:42
- michaelgira
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Alsa audio won't work.
I can't seem to get the audio to work while using alsa.
In the past, i usually used pulse audio, because i could only get Alsa to work rarely.
However this is a fresh install from yesterday, and i would like to try and use Alsa instead of pulse.
I am following the wiki. I installed 'alsa-utils', then i tried to unmute first using:
$ amixer sset Master unmuteThe response that comes back is:
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0After googlng, i found some people saying that you should try replacing 'Master' with your audio mixer control.
So i used
amixer scontrolswhich returned
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2So i replaced my initial command from master, to the control name, which gave me this:
'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]Audio was still not working, tried rebooting too and it wasn't working.
I went further into the wiki and tried using alsamixer instead.
When entering alsamixer, i am met with something that doesn't seem to be the right sound card, at least that is what it seems like.
This is what it looks like. No master, no volume bars, just 3 <s/pdif> things.
│ Card: HDA Intel HDMI F1: Help │
│ Chip: Intel Haswell HDMI F2: System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │
│ Item: S/PDIF Esc: Exit │
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│ < S/PDIF >S/PDIF 1 S/PDIF 2 When i press F6 to change sound card, it shows me that i have
0 HDA Intel HDMI
1 HDA Intel PCHwhen i go into the other card, it looks correct, but doesn't seem to work.
Originally things were muted, i have unmuted things but that doesn't seem to make anything work.
Here is what it looks like:
Card: HDA Intel PCH F1: Help │
│ Chip: Realtek ALC3239 F2: System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │
│ Item: S/PDIF Esc: Exit │
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│ Master Headphone Speaker Mic Mic Boost < S/PDIF >S/PDIF Def Auto-Mute Internal M I have tried testing the sound through youtube and using
speaker-test -c 2No results.
I've tried things like reinstalling, it hasn't worked for me.
What should i do? Any help would be seriously appreciated.
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#2 2015-08-08 15:46:54
- S3NTYN3L
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Re: Alsa audio won't work.
Looks like ALSA is making your HDMI port default (0), as was the case with my laptop.
Try creating an .asoundrc file as outlined here.
In my case, ~/.asoundrc looks like this:
defaults.pcm.!card 1
defaults.pcm.!device 0Offline
#3 2018-04-19 15:36:37
- lyler
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Re: Alsa audio won't work.
This solution also worked for me, but I set this value in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf rather than creating a user-specific ~/.asoundrc.
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#4 2018-04-19 15:49:02
- Slithery
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Re: Alsa audio won't work.
Welcome to the forums lyler 
Please take your time to familiarise yourself with our Code of Conduct, especially the sections regarding necrobumping and empty posts.
Also the ideal solution for a system wide alsa configuration is to use /etc/asound.conf, as /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf will get overwritten every time the alsa-lib package is updated.
I'm going to close this old thread now.
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