Command Line Help for Sound Troubleshooting

**Eric06** · February 25th, 2009

Thanks for your pointers; I have sound

I could get sound by adding a line in alsa-base
I found that there were many possible values (the txt file in the packages to install alsa 1.0.19 list them all
so I tryed all of them and tested speakers/headset/volume/touchpad
I chosed
options snd-hda-intel model=m51va
(added at the end of my etc/modbase.d/alsa-base file

here is a summary of what i saw working or not:
(i did all the test without rebooting, just by reloading alsa with : 'sudo alsa force-reload'; playing with the controls loading 'alsamixer' : with 2 terminals, the cd player and the sound recorder, and a bit of patience)

I could not get the mic to give me more than very faint sound, this will be another test, and I did not test the HDMI output

#ALC662/663:HP/mic/headset/ touchpad
#3stack-dig: ok/no/no
#3stack-6ch: ok/ bof/no
#3stack-6ch-dig: ok/no/ no
#6stack-dig: ok / no / no
#lenovo-101e: ok / lo / no/ no
#eeepc-p701: bad sound
#eeepc-ep20: ok / no / no / no
#m51va: ok / lo / ok / part
#g71v: ok / no / ok / part
#h13 : ok / low/ ok / part
#g50v: ok / no / no / part
# auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) zero son

Thanks to the helping people in the universe !
Hopefully the future distributions will be better at 'auto setup'

**thriven** · March 6th, 2009

I recently installed ubuntu studio and I have no sound. I have heard only faint sound, one time from a file bring played by limewire. Otherwise I have no sound at all.

Here is the relevant information re my system. I really appreciate any and all help.

lspci

Returns:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
03:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)
03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) LAN Controller (rev 01)
______________________________________________

lsusb

Returns:
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 06e6:c200 Tiger Jet Network, Inc. Internet Phone
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c517 Logitech, Inc. LX710 Cordless Desktop Laser
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
______________________________________________

cat /proc/asound/cards

Returns:
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xefffc000 irq 16
1 [TigerJet ]: USB-Audio - USB Internet Phone by TigerJet
TigerJet Network, Inc. USB Internet Phone by TigerJet at usb-0000:00:1d.7-6, hi
______________________________________________

cat /proc/asound/modules

Returns:
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_usb_audio
______________________________________________

aplay -l

Returns:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: TigerJet [USB Internet Phone by TigerJet], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
______________________________________________

arecord -l

Returns:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 2/2
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 1: TigerJet [USB Internet Phone by TigerJet], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

**enz1m3** · May 13th, 2009

Hi, I've got an SB Live 5.1 soundcard and when I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 I lost sound.

I already did the pulseaudio thing (set it as default, make myself as user for groups pulse, pulse-access and pulse-rt), etc. but nothing seems to work so far...

Here're my outputs:

lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900] (rev a1)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
02:02.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 46)
02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07)

cat /proc/asound/cards

Code:

 0 [ICH5           ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5
                      Intel ICH5 with CMI9739 at irq 17
 1 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]
                      SBLive 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102) at 0x9c00, irq 17

cat /proc/asound/modules

Code:

 0 snd_intel8x0
 1 snd_emu10k1

aplay -l

Code:

**** Lista de Dispositivos de Hardware PLAYBACK ****
placa 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], dispositivo 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdispositivos: 0/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], dispositivo 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 1: Live [SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]], dispositivo 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdispositivos: 32/32
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
  Subdispositivo #1: subdevice #1
  Subdispositivo #2: subdevice #2
  Subdispositivo #3: subdevice #3
  Subdispositivo #4: subdevice #4
  Subdispositivo #5: subdevice #5
  Subdispositivo #6: subdevice #6
  Subdispositivo #7: subdevice #7
  Subdispositivo #8: subdevice #8
  Subdispositivo #9: subdevice #9
  Subdispositivo #10: subdevice #10
  Subdispositivo #11: subdevice #11
  Subdispositivo #12: subdevice #12
  Subdispositivo #13: subdevice #13
  Subdispositivo #14: subdevice #14
  Subdispositivo #15: subdevice #15
  Subdispositivo #16: subdevice #16
  Subdispositivo #17: subdevice #17
  Subdispositivo #18: subdevice #18
  Subdispositivo #19: subdevice #19
  Subdispositivo #20: subdevice #20
  Subdispositivo #21: subdevice #21
  Subdispositivo #22: subdevice #22
  Subdispositivo #23: subdevice #23
  Subdispositivo #24: subdevice #24
  Subdispositivo #25: subdevice #25
  Subdispositivo #26: subdevice #26
  Subdispositivo #27: subdevice #27
  Subdispositivo #28: subdevice #28
  Subdispositivo #29: subdevice #29
  Subdispositivo #30: subdevice #30
  Subdispositivo #31: subdevice #31
placa 1: Live [SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]], dispositivo 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdispositivos: 8/8
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
  Subdispositivo #1: subdevice #1
  Subdispositivo #2: subdevice #2
  Subdispositivo #3: subdevice #3
  Subdispositivo #4: subdevice #4
  Subdispositivo #5: subdevice #5
  Subdispositivo #6: subdevice #6
  Subdispositivo #7: subdevice #7
placa 1: Live [SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]], dispositivo 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0

arecord -l

Code:

**** Lista de Dispositivos de Hardware CAPTURE ****
placa 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], dispositivo 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], dispositivo 1: Intel ICH - MIC ADC [Intel ICH5 - MIC ADC]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], dispositivo 2: Intel ICH - MIC2 ADC [Intel ICH5 - MIC2 ADC]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], dispositivo 3: Intel ICH - ADC2 [Intel ICH5 - ADC2]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 1: Live [SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]], dispositivo 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 1: Live [SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]], dispositivo 1: emu10k1 mic [Mic Capture]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
placa 1: Live [SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]], dispositivo 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdispositivos: 1/1
  Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0

Please help

**deankovell** · June 30th, 2009

hp says my soundcard is alc 888s.
jaunty tells me this though.

mark@ubuntu:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
mark@ubuntu:~

do i need to change this? and how?
thanks.

**anjojo** · September 6th, 2009

New to Ubuntu.Understand that it will take some effort to get to ropes with Ubuntu,but as somebody else have rightly mentioned,".Somehow the "Linux officials" haven't realized that the audio capabilities of a Linux system belong to the very basic functions of a PC and OS, which have to work from day one."
I have been battling now for 2 weeks to get sound on system.No sound at all.Clean install on new system.On dual boot with windows.Sound in windows works just wonderfull,no problems at all.
Ubuntu,TOTAL different story.Tried everything I could find in forums.Also AlsaALSA Upgrade Script & Multiple Sound Solution (ALSA w Pulseaudio)section
But to no avail.Any advice will be appreciated.Volume controle shows,volume is not on mute. In sound preferences everything is on Aoto detect.And I have tried all different configurations.
Pulse audio volume controle shows playback:Audio on Mute[Red Dot] and Output Devices:HDA Intel-ALC883 Analog"Audio also on Mute-Red Dot"

System info:Ubuntu 9.04.
DMI Information:Gigabyte Technology EP45-UD3P
Kernel release: 2.6.28-15-generic

Architecture: x86_64
ALSA Version

river version: 1.0.18rc3
Library version: 1.0.18 Utilities version: 1.0.18
Loaded ALSA modules:snd_hda_intel
Sound Servers on this system

ulseaudio: Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) Running - Yes
ESound Daemon:Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd) Running - No PCI Soundcards installed in the system
:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller

When I type folowing in Terminal to try and manual start Audio driver I get this:anjojo@anjojo:~$ sudo modprobe snd-ALC883.
[sudo] password for anjojo:
Also when I try typing this in Terminal I get this:sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.17.sh -di [sudo] pasword for anjojo:
But when I try typing my pasword for anjojo,nothing is typed.No matter what keys I type.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
06:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

lspci
bash: anjojo@anjojo:~$: command not found
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ 06:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
anjojo@anjojo:~$ anjojo@anjojo:~$
bash: anjojo@anjojo:~$: command not found
anjojo@anjojo:~$ anjojo@anjojo:~$
bash: anjojo@anjojo:~$: command not found
anjojo@anjojo:~$

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xc9400000 irq 22

cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Feels like I am running into brick walls.

**Nwwmac** · April 29th, 2010

I am trying to solve a sound issue I'm having with a fresh install of 10.04 on an Intel iMac. I installed 9.10 and upgraded to the 10.04 beta last night. I figured with two days to go for it's release, it's probably good to go. Ubuntu runs fine - although this is my first install and there is no swap file.

I don't think that's relevant, however. I think the drivers for the soundcard are incorrect, but that is only my guess. Following the instructions at the top of this thread, here is an interesting error message from terminal after killing pulseaudio and running pulseaudio -vvv.

Can anyone tell me what this means? Is it useful?

xxxx@Ubuntu:~$ killall pulseaudio
xxxx@Ubuntu:~$ pulseaudio -vvv
I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty
D: main.c: Compilation host: i486-pc-linux-gnu
D: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -g -Wall -O3 -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Winline -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010
D: main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: main.c: Running in Valgrind mode: no
D: main.c: Running in VM: no
D: main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: main.c: All asserts enabled.
I: main.c: Machine ID is a20f928d35efba1038a038484bd77370.
I: main.c: Session ID is a20f928d35efba1038a038484bd77370-1272488222.177409-1038958343.
I: main.c: Using runtime directory /home/curt/.pulse/a20f928d35efba1038a038484bd77370-runtime.
I: main.c: Using state directory /home/curt/.pulse.
I: main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules.
I: main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

My soundcard info:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: default [USB Audio CODEC ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0