No sound on Aluminum iMac

[2-7offsuit]

I installed Mint on my triple boot iMac last night. So far everything looks good, except that I have no sound. Is this a known issue? I've been searching around the forums, but I haven't found anything yet. Should I try installing the alsa 1.0.17 release, or is there something else I can do?

[miket]

Hi !

I installed Mint on my triple boot iMac last night. So far everything looks good, except that I have no sound. Is this a known issue? I've been searching around the forums, but I haven't found anything yet. Should I try installing the alsa 1.0.17 release, or is there something else I can do?

I have one of the earlier 20in iMac all white model and the sound works right out the box ... which I would expect as the sound system is Intel based ...

What sound system have you got in your iMac ?

Mike.

[2-7offsuit]

I believe it's called HDA Intel. Is that what you meant by sounds system?

i followed this from the Ubuntu iMac wiki:

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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/options 

and add "options snd-hda-intel model=imac24" to the file and save then reboot.


Now the sound sort of works... It makes some noise, but the quality is terrible. It's quite and flat. It kind of sounds like it's coming out of a cell phone speaker or something. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[miket]

Hi !

I believe it's called HDA Intel. Is that what you meant by sounds system?

i followed this from the Ubuntu iMac wiki:

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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/options 

and add "options snd-hda-intel model=imac24" to the file and save then reboot.


Now the sound sort of works... It makes some noise, but the quality is terrible. It's quite and flat. It kind of sounds like it's coming out of a cell phone speaker or something. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Sound in Linux is a long way behind sound in OS X

Mike

[2-7offsuit]

Really? Should it make this big of a difference? I mean this sounds bad, pretty much unlistenable. Besides, I feel like it sounded a lot better back in Gustsy. Maybe there's something in the settings now that's making it worse?

[2-7offsuit]

So is that it? I refuse to believe that sound in Linux is this bad.

[Kongu]

Try:

options snd-hda-intel model=mbp3

instead of:

options snd-hda-intel model=imac24


then save and reboot.