Dummy Output on ASUS ZenBook on Mint 18.1 64 bit

[polpetta]

Hello to everyone

I finally decided to write to you because after a lot of researches on the web I didn't find a working solution.
Today, after an update, it is no more possible to hear any sound.

I removed and re-installed alsa and pulseaudio

I did

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sudo alsa-force reload

Returned message:

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Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: (none to reload).

I installed pavucontrol but, obviously, it shows just dummy input/output

I tried this way

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sudo aptitude --purge reinstall linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils linux-image-`uname -r` linux-ubuntu-modules-`uname -r` libasound2

I rebooted but nothing has changed.
I read on a forum to check this file

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cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec*
cat: '/proc/asound/card0/codec*': No such file or directory

but i have no "asound" directory

Any idea on this issue?

Thank you in advance, I am pretty desperated

-polpetta

[kukamuumuka]

What tells the next terminal-commands:

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inxi -A

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aplay -l

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[polpetta]

Hello everyone,

there are some news about my problem. I discovered that if i shutdown the laptop and then I swich it on, the sound works, but NOT with the headphones.
If i hibernate the system, after that nothing works (neither normal sound nor headphones).
After switching off, the fan goes crazy and I have to press the off button for about ten seconds in order to stop it (i don't know if this problem is related to the sound one).


This is the output

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$ inxi -A
Audio:     Card Intel Device 9d71 driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.0-53-generic

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic 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 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  

thank you for your interest!

-polpetta

[kukamuumuka]

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aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

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aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

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aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

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aplay -D plughw:0,8 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

[polpetta]

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 ~ $ aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
 ~ $ aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
 ~ $ aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
 ~ $ aplay -D plughw:0,8 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

No sound for all of them