Ubuntu 10.10 Sound issue / no headphone sound / Asus G50vt

[manco1911]

I just installed Mint 10, which is base on 10.10.
AND i also tried with Ubuntu 10.10 liveCD.

Running on a ASUS G50vt-x2 laptop.
The thing is that im having sound issues.
Internal speakes work fine.

But i cant get any sound on my headphones. At least not if i plug them all the way in.
If i keep them not fully pluged, but a bit out, i get sound on my headphones and on the internal speakers.

No clue where to start here..
If its of any help, i also dont have working nor the internal microphones or the mic input, or the audio input. (this laptop has 3 spica plugs).

Here is my lshw -c sound:
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:48 memory:f9ff8000-f9ffbfff

Just ring if there's any other info i can provide to you guys in order to know whats going on.

Thanks guys/grls

[manco1911]

Ok, finally, after a few days of frustrating search with no luck, i got the solution.
My hardware is in the first post if you need it.

SOLUTION:
Modify the alsa-mixer conf file to recongise your hardware soundcard.
file locaton: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

how to edit it:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (i use nano for text editing, you can use gedit, vi, or the one you please).

At the last line, i added this one:
options snd-hda-intel model=m51va position_fix=0

So my alsa-base.conf looks like (note this are only the last lines.. ):
# Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2
# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-hda-intel model=m51va position_fix=0

That's it ! Just reboot and everything is workig as it should. Plug headphones, sound only on headphones, Unplug, sound on internal speakers !

If you need to solve it for another laptop model/brand (these are for intel soundcards), here you have a full list of the alsa options to modify the alsa-base.conf file:

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/audio_intel_hda#acer


I have to thank WaroDaBeast, who gave this solution on this thread.

[anurak_d]

Ah! Thank you man. I will try this.

[coolnezz]

This is awesome! It worked! Thank you!!!!

[bmdavis]

Worked for me with my headphone issues! (using dell studio xps 1640).

Thanks so much!

[tonyzhp1987]

Hello Manco1911

Serious sound problem! please help me out.

my sound card was fine when i installed ubuntu 10.10,

but after i saw jsevi83 post, i got huge sound problem, there is no more sound!!! the sound device has gone!
still thanks Jsevi83 a lot, because fixed my other problems.
for example i fixed the wireless LED light, calculator, suspend problems.

please please help me out,right now my world without any sound. my laptop no more sound.

i checked the lib/modules/2.6.35-24-generic/kernel/sound
there are no more pci file and others.

please Help me!!!!!!!!!

thank you very very much!

[lidex]

my sound card was fine when i installed ubuntu 10.10,
but after i saw jsevi83 post, i got huge sound problem, there is no more sound!!! the sound device has gone!

You probably borked your alsa install. Can you do this please?
Use the alsa-info-script to provide detailed information.
Run this command in a terminal:

wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

Choose the upload option and provide a link for the output.
[Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"]

[Naes_gregory]

Tried the code above and it worked perfectly.

Thanks very much,

Naes.

[khardysius]

Have had a problem with headphone sense, etc. with my Asus U50f. Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10, added a similar line as stated above and in this link:

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/audio_intel_hda#acer

I chose the first in the table for Asus (A52F) and it worked fine. After the upgrade to 10.10 it shows that I have Intel IbexPeak HDMI (which is not what it said or read in 10.04). 10.10 seems to be easier at resolving this issue; upgrade if it's feasible.

Now on to the touchpad problems!

[yax51]

Thanks! the head phone issue was resolved! however, did you find anything to fix the mic? mine still doesn't want to work. Thanks!