No Sound on eeePC 1001PX Maverick Netbook

**djxcon** · December 11th, 2010

After several hours of troubleshooting, I give up and am turning to the community for help. I recently bought a eeePC and installed Lucid Remix. I had to start with Lucid because Maverick crashed on the install. I did an in-place upgrade to 10.10 and have no sound. I had no sound in Lucid either.

Now, I did notice that in the Maverick live disc, the computer had perfect sound.

Here is what I have tried thus far:

Installed pavucontrol no luck.

Checked alsamixer and unmuted everything and turned the volume up on all channels

The pavucontrol shows the audio meter hopping so I know the system "sees" the audio...it just doesn't play it.

Tried this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r)

Tried reinstalling pulse/alsa packages (while removing the .pulse folder) no luck.

Added this line to alsa-base.conf...no luck (options snd-hda-intel model=auto)

Here are some system stats: PLEASE please help...I am going crazy!

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

kristin@kristin-laptop:~$ lshw -C multimedia
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:f7cf8000-f7cfbfff

**ronferds** · January 8th, 2011

I too have this issue with my Asus eepc R101-PX. No sound. Any suggestions.

**ophysis** · January 19th, 2011

Same here. Anyone?

**ronferds** · January 22nd, 2011

has anyone rectified this issue. I am stumped, no sound as well as no microphone working :'(

**snesreviews** · February 8th, 2011

This is far from ideal but I came across this problem too. For me anyway, Alsamixer had no effect on the sound card despite appearing to detect volume levels. I don't know for certain but I would guess this is because it's a dual-purpose port which may be a microphone or headphones.

Anyway, this flies in the face of my principles but for now anyway, adding the indicator applet to a panel and using that for volume control worked fine for me (none of the alsa based tools worked for me, but admittedly I didn't fight that much).

This is extremely annoying because on an eeepc, space in your panels is a commodity and I hate their mail notification icon and the huge gap between each icon. Yes I know there's probably a gconf setting to disable but I shall duel with that one later.

**angryswede** · March 9th, 2011

This is interesting. I was having similar issues with this netbook, with a fresh install of the desktop edition; however, with a fresh install of the netbook edition the speakers work fine (But I hate unity taking up so much screen real estate. Anyway I had the same kernel on both, and ran all the latest updates, so not sure what the difference between the two is. Anyone have any insight?