I run a dual-boot system with Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon at the moment.
I had made a topic about my sound problem before and later I fixed it by reloading ALSA with "sudo alsa force-reload" command.
The problem came back though and that time the command didn't help.
The problem in brief: every time I boot up the OS, the sound may work or it may not. I have no idea what could cause this.
I already know that when I do not hear the OS "Greetings" sound - the problem is back. But for some reason some applications work. Spotify and Element work all the time; VLC works sometimes; Firefox and other applications don't work - I cannot hear anything. In Sound Settings though it tells me that "No application is currently playing or recording audio" regardless.
I've tried:
- Reloading ALSA with: "sudo alsa force-reload" - worked several times.
- Purging ALSA and Pulseaudio and reinstalling - didn't work.
- Installing some additional sound drivers - worked once. (the command was on this forum but I cannot find it now)
- Changing Linux Kernel: 5.11 to 5.4 - didn't work.
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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: Gigabyte product: H170-D3H v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: H170-D3H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F3 date: 10/16/2015
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 25599
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 1294 4: 1113
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c03
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f1
Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-6:5 chip ID: 0c76:161e
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-25-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b8
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: TP-Link 802.11n NIC type: USB driver: rtl8812au bus ID: 1-4:3
chip ID: 2357:010d serial: <filter>
IF: wlx18d6c711b0d6 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-3: virbr0-nic state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.41 TiB used: 114.53 GiB (3.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EFRX-68FYTN0
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 0A82 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD120 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: ACF0 scheme: MBR
ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 118.65 GiB used: 57.25 GiB (48.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.5 C mobo: 29.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 42 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 25%
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main
2: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obsproject-obs-studio-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/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/qbittorrent-team-qbittorrent-stable-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.riot.im/debian/ default main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
Info:
Processes: 258 Uptime: 7m Memory: 15.57 GiB used: 2.21 GiB (14.2%)
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
