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joanmanel

Member

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

No sound in fresh installation

I cannot get any sound, I installed alsa-utils, and I am using Gnome. I think Pulseaudio was also installed.

When I try to unmute some of the channels it gives me an error:

amixer sset Master unmute
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 37971 [58%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 37971 [58%] [on]

amixer sset Speaker unmute
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Speaker',0

amixer sset Headphone unmute
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Headphone',0

Using speaker-test I can't hear anything.

aplay -L | grep :CARD
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
usbstream:CARD=NVidia
sysdefault:CARD=Generic
front:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
surround21:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
surround40:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
surround41:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
surround50:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
surround51:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
surround71:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
iec958:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
usbstream:CARD=Generic

This is my /etc/asound.conf

# 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:

On pavucontrol I can see the audio bar moving, but no sound comes out

Some of my system information:

aplay -l
**** 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 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC1220 Analog [ALC1220 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 1: ALC1220 Digital [ALC1220 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,313

Re: No sound in fresh installation

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

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V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: No sound in fresh installation

This looks like a full blown pulse setup, so rather than breaking anything further by playing with ALSA configuration, what's your pulse config?

pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
systool -vm snd_hda_intel
amixer -c1

during attempted playback