Help! Problems with Sound not working on Mint 16

Lord_Sunday · Post by **Lord_Sunday** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 2:28 am

I've looked into everything I know but nothing will play sound. I have literally no idea what else to do. So far I've messed with alsamixer and I've looked into drivers, but I think I'm ok there. My speakers are Harman/Kardon, and as far as i can tell, ALSA works fine, the drivers are fine (as far as I can tell), and im up a river trying to figure out whats wrong ._.

Please help me.

iowabeakster · Post by **iowabeakster** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:27 pm

I had no sound when I first installed new versions of Mint (both 15 and 16). I felt pretty silly as it took me a while [way to long] to figure it out (both times!). I was playing with all the sound software too. Digging through config files, etc. I Could not figure it out.

In the end, my solution was just to change the output device from the default (which was HDMI on my video card) to S/PDIF (the one I use). All it took was a click on the sound icon on the panel and choose Sound Settings. Under the Output tab, choose the correct output device. It sounds like you probably want to use the analog output.

I know this the the most basic/simple/obvious thing to do. But check the easiest/obvious things first, right?

I assume you are smarter than me, and that isn't your issue. But I figured I'd throw it out there, and give your thread a bump anyway.

Good luck.

airclay · Post by **airclay** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:40 pm

I too am having this problem. I'm very new to linux alltogether but like as above I've read up, gone through the alsamixer; making sure nothing was muted and checked both output devices in the sound icon still nothing.

I have found this link to someone using the same build but, its only a bug report? I'm not quite sure what it means.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/ ... 00091.html

EDIT: In a return email from the op of the above bug report I'm told his solution was "I bought a PCI-e video card (a different AMD card that I knew was
supported). Basically at least for the version of debian I am on, the
onboard video card isn't yet supported. I had better success with a
newer kernel (for the DRM driver), but I don't want to run
debian-testing or unstable so it's not an option for me.

The issue is that the kernel driver does not yet fully support that
family of AMD video cards."

does this suggest that my best bet is to purchase a pci-e?

I tried orginally following these instructions (http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/fix-hda- ... qus_thread and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=314383) but after trying quite a few different fixes I was worried I had changed too much and reinstalled mint for a fresh start which is where I am now.

I can always boot back to win7 where sound works fine (obv) but I really don't like things not working properly.

Edit: sound does not work w/ headphones in either front port or rear line out. I again have tried this