The HDMI cable is connected to the HDMI output of a Nvidia RTX 2060 Super graphics card. Although this LM installation is very new, I did so many views back and forth between the Windows and LM installations on this computer that I cannot actually remember for sure if the sound ever worked in LM or not. I have not yet tried to use Timeshift to go back to the initial installation and check, primarily because I'd prefer to "solve the problem" so I can keep going forward with an installation that I can keep up to date.
This is a new computer and a new install of LM. I am a novice with LM so I don't really know how volume controls are supposed to work -- normally. I don't see an icon for sound control on the panel -- and am wondering if there is supposed to be one there?
I tried reading other forum posts with sound issues but that didn't seem to help. In response to reading other posts, I tried doing things like installing pulseaudio but when I try to launch it, it just says "establishing connection to pulseaudio. Please wait" - but does nothing more and never connects or opens.
I opened the "Sound" app, but the sound "Device" settings are frozen with the sound level at minimum. I could not find any way to change or adjust anything there. I would sure appreciate any help to solve this issue. Thanks.
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Audio:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:f1c8
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 02:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f9
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-25-generic
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System:
Kernel: 5.11.0-25-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 wm: muffin 5.0.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: XPS 8940 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0427JK v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 2.1.1
date: 06/15/2021
CPU:
Topology: 8-Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: N/A L2 cache: 16.0 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 79872
Speed: 801 MHz min/max: 800/4800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 988 2: 1804
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 801 8: 801 9: 801 10: 908 11: 800 12: 800
13: 800 14: 800 15: 801 16: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:4c8a
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1f06
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:f1c8
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 02:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f9
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-25-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:06f0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:2600
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.13 TiB used: 78.40 GiB (6.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SATA SSD size: 223.57 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: 61.2 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A1
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 7113 scheme: GPT
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Device driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus ID: 00:17.0
chip ID: 8086.06d6 rev: N/A
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 91.17 GiB used: 14.24 GiB (15.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 92.29 GiB used: 32.08 GiB (34.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 809 fan-2: 1003 gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com//deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://muug.ca/mirror/linuxmint/packages uma main upstream import backport
2: deb http://muug.ca/mirror/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://muug.ca/mirror/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://muug.ca/mirror/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-source-repositories.list
1: deb-src http://muug.ca/mirror/linuxmint/packages uma main upstream import backport
2: deb-src http://muug.ca/mirror/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb-src http://muug.ca/mirror/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb-src http://muug.ca/mirror/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
Processes: 369 Uptime: 1h 11m Memory: 31.04 GiB used: 3.22 GiB (10.4%)
Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash
v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38