No sound

[Kr1551]

Ditto with the sound problem. It appears it detects my devices, and I hear pops and clicks occasionally, but otherwise nothing. Reinstalling alsa didn't help, and I'm really close to ditching Ubuntu.

I am really close ditching lubuntu right now.

[Kr1551]

I am really close ditching lubuntu right now.

Is there no one that can help?

[mwa2012]

Make sure you were not muted in windows when you last exited(if in a dual boot scenario). That was my situation on a Toshiba Satellite A105 and Ubuntu 11.10 and had no sound upon Ubuntu boot. Removed mute in windows and applied change, booted Ubuntu and works fine. Real simple and took 8 hours of trying various suggested fixes around the internet to get there.

[Worp8d]

I have lubuntu installed fine on my laptop (and I love it - happy to put up with a bug or two while it matures) but I have just installed it on a friend's netbook and I have the no sound problem. I'm not very familiar with hardware management in linux.

There is no volume icon on the task bar. Alsamixer appears to recognise the sound device. Nothing is muted, though I don't seem to be able to change volume in alsamixer.

Audacious comes up with the error "ALSA error - No suitable mixer found."

I'd really like to get this working 'cause if I do then there's one more non-techy linux convert.

[Worp8d]

I found this thread which seems to point to the problem - that the sound module is not being loaded first.

When I open alsamixer and press F6 to select the sound card the options are

- (default)
0 - HD-Audio Generic
1 - HDA ATI SB

Using alsa-info.sh found on this page I found out that ALSA is loading the snd_hda_intel module twice.

I put

options snd_hda_intel index=0

into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base but no joy. Also tried

options snd_hda_intel index=1

.

Then I tried

apt-get install --reinstall alsa-base

with no effect.

Officially out of ideas.

[davidafranklin]

Hello,

I also have a sound problem but a little bit different. I can hear all the videos but I cannot have a sound working on my Gmail notifier (Firiefox addon) or on the Thunderbird notifier. This is bizare that only some sound do not play. These are wav files. They work fine when I click directly on them and play them with the media player, they just do not play within a program.

Any suggestions?

David
Ubuntu 11.10

[dentaku65]

I've suggest to edit your alsa-base.conf

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

and at the end of file put:

#My card
options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Reboot.

[davidafranklin]

I tried and no results.
When putting the 2nd code at the end, nothing seems to happen.
I am not sure if I should try to do all the steps you have mentioned previously as my issue is not exactlky the same. I do have sound (Videos stream, skype...), i just do not have sound thru Thunderbird or Gmail notifier.
Thanks

[dentaku65]

I tried and no results.
When putting the 2nd code at the end, nothing seems to happen.
I am not sure if I should try to do all the steps you have mentioned previously as my issue is not exactlky the same. I do have sound (Videos stream, skype...), i just do not have sound thru Thunderbird or Gmail notifier.
Thanks

Can you show the output of:

lspci -v |grep audio

[davidafranklin]

here you go:

Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Toshiba Satellite A100-796 audio (Realtek ALC861)

it is bizarre it says this as my laptop is aToshiba Satellite-M115 S8094