No sound with Mint 11 or Mint 12

[MarkMT]

BTW, I checked some of the configurations that TJ had looked at and found a few differences -

$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec
Codec: IDT 92HD91BXX
Codec: Intel CougarPoint HDMI


$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xc3700000 irq 54
1 [Adapter ]: USB-Audio - HP Wireless Audio Adapter
Standard Microsystems Corp. HP Wireless Audio Adapter at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5,


$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Adapter [HP Wireless Audio Adapter], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[spandey]

Have you removed PulseAudio and tried to install ALSA. If not please try, here is help http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/439

[TrawlerJoe]

Have you purged pulseaudio or it's still there? Please go ahead and purge pulseaudio.

Purge all references to snd-hda-intel from /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.

Try by adding..
options snd-hda-intel model=hp position_fix=1

do a
sudo alsa force-reload

after changes

Followed the instructions here (http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/439) to purge pulseaudio, and then your steps above. To my surprise, this seems to have not affected the sound output. New volume control applet, but otherwise, things look similar, and I still have sound from the headphone jack but not the speakers. I sorta thought this one was going to take care of it.

[spandey]

hi TrawlerJoe,
Can you make the options like
options snd-hda-intel model=ref

reload as usual..

Then under preferences menu for hardware sound select Analog Stereo Duplex and under output slect analog..

[TrawlerJoe]

Same result. Sorry, I should have noted before that I tried a few others too:
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=hp
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=touchsmart

One difference here is that I no longer have a 'sound' entry in the control center... I only have the alsamixer and the volume control applet (which is really just a gui on alsamixer). These don't list "Analog Stereo Duplex" -- they show these two entries:
HDA Intel PCH (Alsa mixer)
HD Audio Generic (Alsa mixer)

For the first one, all the playback sliders are at max. The second one just has a 'IEC958' checkbox (checked), which apparently is the S/PDIF mute/unmute.

[greenturtle]

I have new hp envy 17. It has hp wireless audio, intel audio, ati hdmi audio and it seems hp wireless breaks the alsa. I've just blacklist module snd_usb_audio and it started to work like a charm. I do not know where modprobe file should be in mint but in arch linux it is in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa_blacklist.conf (if you don't have one - create it). Just add blacklist snd_usb_audio to this file

Hope it helps

[TrawlerJoe]

I have new hp envy 17. It has hp wireless audio, intel audio, ati hdmi audio and it seems hp wireless breaks the alsa. I've just blacklist module snd_usb_audio and it started to work like a charm. I do not know where modprobe file should be in mint but in arch linux it is in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa_blacklist.conf (if you don't have one - create it). Just add blacklist snd_usb_audio to this file

Hope it helps

Thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a try, but no joy. Does your hp envy have "beats audio", by any chance? I think the beats audio might screw things up, though I'm not really sure. I've seen posts elsewhere with difficulty on beats audio machines.

I've more-or-less given up. This is mainly my wife's machine anyway, so it stays booted to Windows almost all the time. If that changes, I'll just plug some external speakers into the headphone jack.

[spandey]

In old Linux systems this setting used to work, why don't give a shot.

Code: Select all

options snd-card-0 enable=1 index=0 model=basic
options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=basic


If it doesn't work may raise bug report for ALSA project..

[pepperoni]

In old Linux systems this setting used to work, why don't give a shot.

Code: Select all

options snd-card-0 enable=1 index=0 model=basic
options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=basic


If it doesn't work may raise bug report for ALSA project..

That help my problem.... many thanks.

Now there is another problem which seems a bit weird. The volume control applet doesn't control the hdmi volume.
Anyone had this issue before and how it can solved.
thanx