HP 630 - no sound through speakers

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-17 18:36:47

Hi everybody,

just installed Statler on my laptop today and after configuring it for a while (pretty different from Lubuntu), I'm somewhat satisfied. Alas, I don't get any sound through my speakers. Headphones are working, but that's it.
I followed these instructions, but it didn't help.
Any suggestions?

Thanks and best regards

el_koraco · 2012-05-17 18:44:50

open alsamixer, and look at the "Speaker" tab. It will probably have MM under the bar. Navigate to it, click M (as in capital m), and you should have sound.

Last edited by el_koraco (2012-05-17 18:45:05)

CBizgreat! · 2012-05-17 18:49:26

^ Beaten to it. tongue

Agree w El_ ... when hear people are having a probelm w audio, alsamixer is always the 1st thing that comes to mind. As El_ said, open a terminal type "alsamixer" w/o quotes to open alsamixer. Check to see what's muted vs what isn't and where the volume level is in the bars for it. To navigate use left/right arrows, up push up one of them ( or down) up/down arrows. To mute/unmute ... press the m key on your keyboard, to exit alsamixer press the Esc key or x out of the terminal.

Vll ! smile

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-05-17 18:49:53)

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-17 19:10:03

Hm, nothing, so far.
Both speaker levels are up to 100 %, changed from "MM" to "00" and back and forth and back (I assume "00" is the right one?).
Headphones still working, speakers not.
Anyway, thanks for the help!

Last edited by Bulettenschmied (2012-05-17 19:30:40)

CBizgreat! · 2012-05-17 23:20:53

Well sorry, hopefully one of the tons of #! audiologists chime in. Fiddling w alsamixers settings is where my knowledge of fixing nix audio issues pretty much begins and ends. Have never run up against a sound issue yet, that couldn't solve fiddling with alsamixer. Checked my alsamixer settings, you don't want everything unmuted me thinks, in mine for example the "headphon" setting is at mm and the "line jac" is too. Ya still may be able to sort things fiddling w alsamixer. Not everything is 00 for the sucker. smile If I unmute either "headphon" or "line jac", my speakers stop working here.

Also don't quote me on this, cuz not at all sure about it. But thought pushing PCM up to 100% isn't the best idea. Long time ago, thought remember researching the topic and saw some folks advising keeping it around 75%. Again ... could have zero idea what am talking about. As exactly what pcm does is kinda hazy atm.

Picture = 1,000 words thing. Though happen not to likey photobucket, shrugs. This is just o course, how my settings in alsamixer are and showing the two am babbling about. Btw ... there are others, not all alsamixers settings are on that one screen, right arrow will take ya to some others to check. Long babbling way of saying could still just be an alsamixer thing. Might wanna keep playing with the settings or summin. And definitely can't hurt giving El_ the info he's asking for below ... shrugs. Good luck. wink

Edit: DANG IT ! In for a penny type thing ... List of all other settings in alsamixer that are set to mm here and external speakers are working. Though may or not, have an impact for you. "Mic boos", "S/PDIF P" ... that's it rest are mm here. wink

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-05-18 00:06:54)

el_koraco · 2012-05-17 23:24:47

can I see output of

aplay -l
lsmod

please? And yeah, make sure PCM isn't muted.

Last edited by el_koraco (2012-05-17 23:28:01)

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-18 07:42:13

Thanks, I really appreciate your help!
Fumbled around with Alsamixer this morning again, but nothing.
Looks like this.

As to your request:

- aplay -l

thomas@MinasTirith:~$ aplay -l
**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) ****
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
  Sub-Geräte: 0/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 3: INTEL HDMI [INTEL HDMI]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

- lsmod

thomas@MinasTirith:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             18855  0 
ppdev                   5030  0 
lp                      7462  0 
parport                27954  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
sco                     7225  2 
bridge                 39646  0 
stp                     1440  1 bridge
bnep                    9427  2 
rfcomm                 29629  0 
l2cap                  24752  6 bnep,rfcomm
acpi_cpufreq            5571  1 
cpufreq_conservative     5162  0 
cpufreq_stats           2740  0 
cpufreq_userspace       1992  0 
cpufreq_powersave        902  0 
fuse                   50924  3 
loop                   11799  0 
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi    10695  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   235714  0 
snd_hda_intel          20035  4 
snd_hda_codec          54292  3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5380  1 snd_hda_codec
arc4                    1274  2 
snd_pcm                60487  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
ecb                     1841  2 
snd_seq                42881  0 
snd_timer              15598  3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
i915                  256094  2 
drm_kms_helper         20369  1 i915
ath9k                 249976  0 
mac80211              137372  1 ath9k
snd_seq_device          4493  1 snd_seq
ath                     8006  1 ath9k
joydev                  8459  0 
drm                   142352  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd                    46526  15 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
cfg80211              101496  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
btusb                   9913  0 
uvcvideo               52127  0 
videodev               30089  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            11442  2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32     8474  1 videodev
i2c_i801                7830  0 
usbhid                 33292  0 
i2c_algo_bit            4209  1 i915
soundcore               4598  1 snd
i2c_core               15819  6 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,videodev,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
hid                    63257  1 usbhid
led_class               2433  1 ath9k
wmi                     4323  0 
bluetooth              41827  7 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
snd_page_alloc          6249  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rfkill                 13044  3 cfg80211,bluetooth
video                  17445  1 i915
output                  1692  1 video
battery                 4998  0 
pcspkr                  1699  0 
evdev                   7352  14 
psmouse                49985  0 
serio_raw               3752  0 
ac                      2192  0 
processor              29935  3 acpi_cpufreq
button                  4650  1 i915
ext4                  288382  1 
mbcache                 5050  1 ext4
jbd2                   67111  1 ext4
crc16                   1319  2 l2cap,ext4
sg                     24069  0 
sr_mod                 12602  0 
sd_mod                 29937  3 
crc_t10dif              1276  1 sd_mod
cdrom                  29351  1 sr_mod
ahci                   32870  2 
libata                133776  1 ahci
thermal                11674  0 
thermal_sys            11942  3 video,processor,thermal
scsi_mod              126725  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               32097  0 
r8169                  36840  0 
mii                     3210  1 r8169
usbcore               123122  5 btusb,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd
nls_base                6377  1 usbcore

Best regards!

machinebacon · 2012-05-18 07:57:26

You might need ~/.asoundrc

pcm.!default {
      type hw
      card 0
      device 3
 }

But first listen to what el_koraco says big_smile

el_koraco · 2012-05-18 08:06:19

Bulettenschmied wrote:

T
Looks like this.

Open alsamixer, hit F5 and capture the screen again please.

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-18 14:13:29

Voilá

el_koraco · 2012-05-18 15:22:40

What version of #! are you running? May I see

uname -a

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-18 15:34:42

Linux MinasTirith 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

el_koraco · 2012-05-18 15:52:38

lol, Minas Tirith. It seems you might need the kernel from backports. You can go about it in two ways. One, reinstall #! with the bpo image. Two, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, uncommend the backports repo, and run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

You will want to do this, as it will pull all the packages from backports, including xorg, and help you out with your GPU. If you don't get a bunch of upgrades available on dist-upgrade, come back and we'll fix it. I don't know how #! handles this with the new images.

After you've done upgrading, reboot, edit /etc/default/grub, and replace

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet

" with

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 pcie_aspm=force acpi_osi=linux acpi_backlight=vendor"

and run

sudo update-grub

and reboot again. You'll get a 10-15 degree drop in temperatures and about 2 hours more on batttery life.

Last edited by el_koraco (2012-05-18 15:53:00)

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-18 17:36:03

Ok - somehow that right away killed my whole system smile
Nevermind. No data was harmed during the crashing of this installation. New CrunchBang is up and running. I'll give it another try ...

EDIT: Whoa - my mistake! I didn't reinstall with the backport-image first. My, my, learning can be painful!

Last edited by Bulettenschmied (2012-05-18 17:54:37)

el_koraco · 2012-05-18 18:14:08

You should have given us a chance to fix whatever was happening big_smile

Bulettenschmied · 2012-05-18 19:54:39

el_koraco wrote:

You should have given us a chance to fix whatever was happening

Nothing much happening - literally. Just a black screen after I opted for "reboot". And pretty much the same after I manually rebooted. Pitch-friggin'-no-cursor-or-anything-else-black.

el_koraco wrote:

uncommend the backports repo

Now, what exactly do you mean by that?

EDIT: Ok, I don't know why or how, but after installing the bpo-image (and doing nothing else different) the speakers work. Thanks, says the Padawan!

Last edited by Bulettenschmied (2012-05-18 20:13:43)

CBizgreat! · 2012-05-18 21:06:59

Good deal ... Glad sound is working for ya Buletten. smile

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