No sound. Pavucontrol shows disconnected outputs

[Antbat]

Hi!

I have a MSI "Godlike Carbon" motherboard with an Intel processor and Gskill RAM. It has Intel sound chipset and an NVIDIA Titan videocard with a soundchip.
I installed Mint Serena 64-bit with KDE. I selected to install the added codecs before installing and since then I'v installed recommended propietary NVIDIA drivers, installed the mint-meta-codecs, and updated, upgraded and tried to upgrade-dist (it was up to date).

I've read the thirteen topics that come up when searching "sound pavucontrol unplugged", mostly. Not sure how much I could understand.

Aplay shows:
antbat@MS-788 ~ $ aplay -l &
[2] 11274
antbat@MS-788 ~ $ **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC1150 Analog [ALC1150 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC1150 Digital [ALC1150 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Alsamixer shows the Master almost halfway green the rest of the bar is black. The next three bars have the same amount of green but almost half the bars are white then red above the green. All the other bars are completely blank or black.


Pavucontrol Output Devices Port say "HDMI / DisplayPort (unplugged)" and Configuration Profile shows all the profiles are unplugged. This is while a file is playing in VLC.

I'm new to Mint and unsure about which outputs would be more helpful. Just ask me and I will post whatever is needed.

Thank you!

[Pjotr]

Did you perhaps install sandboxing application Firejail? If so, this should help:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... y-Firejail
(item 4, left column)

If not applicable, please generate an overview of your system like this:
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

Code: Select all

inxi -Fxz

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[Antbat]

Thanks for the help. No, did not install Firejail. Understood your concern about the output, but the Reply answer box eats the indentations. I did try quotes but it did not work so I extra spaced the sections because I did not understand how to fix that. Here's the inxi output:

antbat@MS-788 ~ $ inxi -Fxz

"System: Host: MS-788 Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.5 (Qt 5.6.1)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena

Machine: Mobo: MSI model: X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON (MS-7883) v: 1.0
Bios: American Megatrends v: 2.60 date: 08/25/2016

CPU: Hexa core Intel Core i7-6800K (-HT-MCP-) cache: 15360 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 40801
clock speeds: max: 3800 MHz 1: 1200 MHz 2: 1496 MHz 3: 1236 MHz 4: 2523 MHz 5: 1200 MHz 6: 1293 MHz
7: 1226 MHz 8: 1414 MHz 9: 1314 MHz 10: 2608 MHz 11: 1199 MHz 12: 1205 MHz

Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GK110 [GeForce GTX TITAN] bus-ID: 04:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 2560x1440@59.95hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX TITAN/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.57 Direct Rendering: Yes

Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GK110 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 04:00.1 Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.0-53-generic
Card-2 Intel C610/X99 series HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0

Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: alx port: b000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath10k_pci bus-ID: 09:00.0
IF: wlp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-3: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: alx port: a000 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
IF: enp10s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-4: Atheros usb-ID: 003-003
IF: null-if-id state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A

Drives: HDD Total Size: 15871.1GB (48.1% used) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: N/A size: 256.1GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sda model: Generic size: 1500.3GB ID-3: /dev/sdb model: KINGSTON_SV200S3 size: 128.0GB
ID-4: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD80EFZX size: 8001.6GB ID-5: /dev/sdd model: ST4000DX001 size: 4000.8GB
ID-6: /dev/sde model: CT240BX200SSD1 size: 240.1GB
ID-7: /dev/sdf model: Hitachi_HDS5C302 size: 2000.4GB

Partition: ID-1: / size: 74G used: 7.0G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sde5

RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:45C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A

Info: Processes: 329 Uptime: 9:31 Memory: 1554.6/64329.8MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.461) inxi: 2.2.35"

[Pjotr]

I like the name of your motherboard.

Try whether a newer kernel helps:

Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels
Install the latest kernel from the 4.4 series. Then reboot.

If that doesn't help, install the latest kernel of the 4.8 series. Then reboot again.

[Antbat]

I havn't been able to follow up for a while, but yesterday I tried to update the kernel. I had 4.4 and tried the latest 4.10. It seemed to go well until the very end. When it tried to update grub, it reported it could not find one of my drives. I ran the update grub selection in the recovery options successfully but no change booting. Ff I try to boot the new kernel directly of try the recovery option it stops with a blank screen. Then I go Cntrl-Alt-F1 I can see errors but I dont' know what to do. Following are the two errors which repeat seven times changing only what I suppose are references or line numbers.

1) (line #) ACPI ERROR: NAMESPACE LOOKUP FAILURE AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psargs_359)

2) Method parse execution failed [1SB.PCIO.SATA1.SPTO._GTF] (Node ffff89133ed6fca8) AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/psparse-543)

[Antbat]

Can anyone help?

[jimallyn]

What happened when you installed the most recent 4.4 series kernel as Pjotr suggested? What happened when you next installed the most recent 4.8 series kernel as Pjotr suggested?