No sound, ALSA problems, ac'97 not recognized

[greatsirkain]

nope still 'dummy output' but at least they're screaming in my ears..

[BLuFeNiX]

nope still 'dummy output' but at least they're screaming in my ears..

What do you mean by that? They are producing sound?

[greatsirkain]

nope, it was just the static cos I'd turned my T.V volume up that loud hoping to hear something, still nothing but I appreciate your help, especially since I was 'a little tired' last night shall we say lol (waking up to static with a bad head is awesome)

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

after doing all that you probably have to reset the sound profile

rm -rf ~/.pulse

logout and in and see what you have
how to use speaker-test if the above did not get the job done

~$ aplay -l | grep card
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 2: VT1708S HP [VT1708S HP]
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
~$ speaker-test -c 2 -r 48000 -D hw:1,7

the 1 and 7 are [card],[device]
try each one, till you hear sound (static playback)
when you found the combination that works

echo "load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:[CARD],[DEVICE]" | sudo tee -a /etc/pulse/default.pa

[BLuFeNiX]

after doing all that you probably have to reset the sound profile

rm -rf ~/.pulse

Oh, good idea! I always seem to forget the little things...

[greatsirkain]

aplay -l | grep card
aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...


Playback device is hw:2,5
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1401_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

and I got the same result for every combo I tried

[greatsirkain]

still messing around with it trying to get it working, something new cropped up:

$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Address already in use
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.


....Did I break something new? lol

Edit: ahh cheers

[BLuFeNiX]

still messing around with it trying to get it working, something new cropped up:

$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Address already in use
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.


....Did I break something new? lol

That just means that pulseaudio is already running.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

aplay -l | grep card
aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...

that would explain why you have no sound

lspci | grep Audio

[greatsirkain]

reported from the live cd (where the sound kind of works)

aplay -l

card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

lshw

*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:ee00(size=256) ioport:edc0(size=64) memory:feb7fa00-feb7fbff memory:feb7f900-feb7f9ff



HDD ubuntu

lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 017a
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
I/O ports at edc0 [size=64]
Memory at feb7fa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at feb7f900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

sudo aptitude --purge reinstall linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils linux-image-`uname -r` linux-ubuntu-modules-`uname -r` libasound2

(in case I had broken anything)

sudo apt-get update

reboot

...W're getting somewhere, now I have sound but only comming from the internal speakers, the sound is set up like that but it's supposed to mute and come out of the headphones as soon as you plug the jack in, right now no sound from the headphones from the front or rear jack...But it's recognizing the card now so I presume this is just a mixer problem...Last bit was a quick fix, the jack was out
Hmmmm, the left speakers seems a tin tin tiny bit louder than the right, any idea of a fix that doesn't involve having to change the balance?

Edit: P.S Thanks for the help, don't know about you guys but I'm going to celebrate with a prolonged horizontal one man Mexican wave