No sound

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:05:26

Hello, I am quite new to the Linux experience and I've recently downloaded Crunchbang onto my laptop. Everything works except that it will not play sound on my #! partition, but it will play sound on my W7 partition.
I've looked at numerous posts and threads regarding this topic but no solution really worked (or I couldn't get it to work). sad

EDIT: Updated to the newest kernel and alsamixer appeared and it showed that the speaker volume was down completely. I turned it up and it worked just fine. Thanks so much to everyone who helped!

Last edited by thistle (2012-09-29 02:33:12)

dura · 2012-09-29 01:07:37

When you say it plays on the window partition, do you mean when you are using windows itself (i.e. you have dual boot)?

pidsley · 2012-09-29 01:08:54

thistle wrote:

I've looked at numerous posts and threads regarding this topic but no solution really worked (or I couldn't get it to work).

What have you tried? Have you run alsamixer from a terminal and made sure all the channels are unmuted (no "MM" at the bottom of the sliders)?

Also, please post the output of these commands, so we know what you're working with:

uname -r
lspci | grep -i audio
aplay -l

Please enclose the output in [code ] and [/code ] tags (without the spaces -- quote my post to see how this is done).

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thistle · 2012-09-29 01:15:55

Yes, I mean I am dualbooting W7 and the sound is working correctly on it.

pidsley · 2012-09-29 01:18:00

thistle wrote:

Yes, I mean I am dualbooting W7 and the sound is working correctly on it.

Good, so we know it's not a hardware problem. Please answer my question about alsamixer and post the output of the commands I asked for.

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:19:03

Okay this is what I got from doing those things you've told me to do.
First one:

2.6.32-5-amd64

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 1e20 (rev 04)

aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:21:24

Also, about Alsamixer, I've downloaded a few things in synaptic dealt with it but I'm not sure if they did anything.
I used the terminal before I did anything I typed:

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:22:41

woops. I didn't type that in the terminal, that's what it gave me when I typed "alsamixer".

pidsley · 2012-09-29 01:28:23

OK. How about these commands:

groups
apt-cache search alsa-utils
lsmod | grep snd

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thistle · 2012-09-29 01:30:33

First one:

dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev bluetooth fuse powerdev

Second one:

alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
gnome-alsamixer - ALSA sound mixer for GNOME

pidsley · 2012-09-29 01:33:53

OK, three more (sorry about this - I'm not really a sound expert)

lsmod | grep snd
cat /proc/asound/cards
apt-cache policy alsa-utils

That last one is what I should have had you type in the other post.

Last edited by pidsley (2012-09-29 01:34:52)

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:42:53

No, it's fine. Thanks for the help so far!
First: Nothing showed up after I entered command.
Second:

cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory

Third:

alsa-utils:
  Installed: 1.0.23-3
  Candidate: 1.0.23-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.23-3 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

dura · 2012-09-29 01:44:12

try:

amixer

in the terminal instead

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:46:13

d! wrote:

try:
amixer
in the terminal instead

Just did, and it gave me the results:

Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

pidsley · 2012-09-29 01:47:05

Your sound card driver is not being loaded for some reason.

Try this

sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

It should return nothing (no error, nothing). Then try

aplay -l
alsamixer

again.

thistle · 2012-09-29 01:52:12

Alright, I entered the first command which returned nothing as you said
The second command gave me:

aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...

And the Alsamixer command gave me

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

pidsley · 2012-09-29 01:58:56

Rats. I'm about out of ideas. Did you uninstall any sound components when you were trying to fix the problem before you asked here?

I think I know what the problem is, but I'm just not sure how to fix it. I think you might need an "options" setting in your modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file, but I'm not going to go there right now.

Two things you can try until someone who knows more about sound than I do shows up:

1. Search the web for those errors you just posted (no soundcards found and cannot open mixer) -- That's what I've been doing.
2. Download the backports version of Statler or the new version of #! (Waldorf) and just run a live session (don't install it) and see if you have sound there. It may be that you do need the newer kernel or a newer version of Also to properly recognize your sound card.

Sorry I didn't get this fixed for you. Sound can be a pain in the a** (almost as bad as wireless).

Last edited by pidsley (2012-09-29 02:02:23)

thistle · 2012-09-29 02:05:24

It's completely fine, and thank you so much for trying to help. I was looking at installing the new kernel (you replied to my post in that thread too smile ) but I honestly have no idea whether that will fix my problem or not. I am going to keep searching for solutions to this and again thank you.

dura · 2012-09-29 02:16:57

Try Waldorf as Pidsley says, using a live usb to test if sound works.

The legendary Good Doctor may be around tomorrow.

Xaos52's recent posts on sound may be very useful, as well his post on updating the kernel. That man is amazing.

Last edited by dura (2012-09-29 02:17:41)

pidsley · 2012-09-29 02:28:33

d! wrote:

The legendary Good Doctor may be around tomorrow.

That's exactly who I was thinking of when I said "someone who knows more about sound than I do" smile

He's usually here in the morning (my time) about 12 hours from now.

Until then thistle, you have nothing to lose by trying a live session of Statler backports or Waldorf if you don't want to wait. You don't even need to install it or update your kernel.

(edit) you might not want to mark it <solved> just yet if you want Xaos's help -- he may not read the topic if it's marked solved. wink

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thistle · 2012-09-29 02:32:55

Well alright then. smile

xaos52 · 2012-09-30 18:20:19

See this thread http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=82429

dlharp2 · 2012-10-05 01:19:37

this fixes my sound:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/258392/#p258392

lcafiero · 2012-10-05 01:21:41

Hey, dlharp2 -- Glad to hear you found a solution to your problem. Could you mark your original subject line as [SOLVED] when you have time? Thanks in advance.

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