missing sound

[Horatio64]

hey i cant get any sound in my when i boot up mint
keeping u in mind that i am using it with my macbook pro [around 07 edition] and duel booting it with reefit, my graphics card is identified and working, my sound card appears to be identified but no sound coming out from both speakers. there is sound when i'm i OS X, just to let you know.
what do i need to do? are there any codes that i need?

[bob5]

hi

- maybe because your using a mac !!

[JasonLG]

Make sure it's not muted in the alsamixer.

Run this in a terminal.

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alsamixer

Look at the output faders to make sure that they aren't muted. Here's what mine looks like on the integrated sound on my laptop.

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┌───────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.0.23 ──────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA Intel                                      F1:  Help               │
│ Chip: SigmaTel STAC9228                              F2:  System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture  F5: All             F6:  Select sound card  │
│ Item: Master [dB gain: 0.00]                         Esc: Exit               │
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Look at the bottom of the faders you should see OO if you MM select that fader and press M to unmute it.

[mugsonmac]

I believe this is a problem Mint inherits from Ubuntu - the Mac sound cards are not well supported. On the Ubuntu forums I found a solution that mostly worked. It gave me sound on my iMac, but it was tinny and the consensus over there was that the sub woofer was not being used. I don't know if an iMac has a subwoofer, so maybe it's tweeter only.

Here is the note I made about it in Evernote:

This worked for me on several iMacs, Intrepid to Lynx:
1. !cd /etc/modprobe.d
2. !sudo gedit alsa-base.conf
3. At the end, add this line:
options snd-hda-intel model=imac24
4. Comment out (#) any other "options snd-hda-intel" lines.

Make sure that your audio is set to Analog Stereo Output if you are using the built-in iMac speakers

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1096802&page=5
Entry #43

I've tried this in Terminal in Mint and got an error message on the first line. Can anyonegive me a Mint version of this?

[JasonLG]

I believe this is a problem Mint inherits from Ubuntu - the Mac sound cards are not well supported. On the Ubuntu forums I found a solution that mostly worked. It gave me sound on my iMac, but it was tinny and the consensus over there was that the sub woofer was not being used. I don't know if an iMac has a subwoofer, so maybe it's tweeter only.

Here is the note I made about it in Evernote:

This worked for me on several iMacs, Intrepid to Lynx:
1. !cd /etc/modprobe.d
2. !sudo gedit alsa-base.conf
3. At the end, add this line:
options snd-hda-intel model=imac24
4. Comment out (#) any other "options snd-hda-intel" lines.

Make sure that your audio is set to Analog Stereo Output if you are using the built-in iMac speakers

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1096802&page=5
Entry #43

I've tried this in Terminal in Mint and got an error message on the first line. Can anyonegive me a Mint version of this?

Loose the "!"'s.

[mugsonmac]

That works! Thanks!

It's the same tinny sound I had on Ubuntu, but it's better than nothing by a long shot.

[bob5]

hi

-mark solved if fixed !

[sugarwormwood]

I believe this is a problem Mint inherits from Ubuntu - the Mac sound cards are not well supported. On the Ubuntu forums I found a solution that mostly worked. It gave me sound on my iMac, but it was tinny and the consensus over there was that the sub woofer was not being used. I don't know if an iMac has a subwoofer, so maybe it's tweeter only.

Here is the note I made about it in Evernote:

This worked for me on several iMacs, Intrepid to Lynx:
1. !cd /etc/modprobe.d
2. !sudo gedit alsa-base.conf
3. At the end, add this line:
options snd-hda-intel model=imac24
4. Comment out (#) any other "options snd-hda-intel" lines.

Make sure that your audio is set to Analog Stereo Output if you are using the built-in iMac speakers

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1096802&page=5
Entry #43

I've tried this in Terminal in Mint and got an error message on the first line. Can anyonegive me a Mint version of this?

So do you input this into the terminal? Also how do you go about doing 3 + 4. Sorry for the really stupid questions but I'm a newb