Issues with my sound not working.

[TCGJesse]

So I had dual booted Mint10 and Windows 7 on my desktop, and I really enjoyed Mint 10. I now have a Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 and I wanted to dedicate this laptop to learning linux so I removed Windows 7. Now when I had installed it on my desktop I had my sound working right from the get go, but with my laptop I've no sound at all... I've looked high and low, though I can't really find a clear answer to my problem.

In the terminal I typed inxi -F then aplay -L and got this
~ $ aplay -L
pulse
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server

When I put in the command line lspci I get

Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)

Any help would be great.

[viking777]

Alt/F2 then

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pavucontrol

Output devices tab - make sure nothing is muted and volume OK, port not selected to headphones. If all is well there run

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alsamixer

in a terminal and make sure nothing in there is muted or low volume.

[TCGJesse]

I did not have alsamixer so I installed Gnome Alsa Mixer but any time I try to click edit>soundcard properties the program just quits. I also have AlsamixerGUI but that does not seem to do anything. I did the first part as you suggested and everything was unchecked except when I go into the configuration for the volume control it says no card available for configuration.

[abercrombieande]

Lets see if your sound card is listed

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lspci

[TCGJesse]

Sorry for the wall of text, I just don't want to miss some information you may find from this...

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

[abercrombieande]

Thats good that the card shows up.

Can you just run this in the terminal not the GUI

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alsamixer

Can you post a screen shot of Menu -> Preferences -> Sound -> Hardware tab