[gentoo-user] No Sound After Reboot, or, More Troubles with Firmware?

[gentoo-user] No Sound After Reboot, or, More Troubles with Firmware?

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hello again,

While fixing my wifi card issues, I came across yet another issue. I
set the snd-hda-intel PCH as my default soundcard, but I have no sound
whatsoever, which renders the system pretty much inoperable to me. I
tried the following:
amixer set Master unmute
amixer set Speaker unmute
amixer set Headphone unmute
These all went to no evail; no speech from espeakup, and nothing from
speaker-test. Am I missing something here? Is there an amixer set All
unmute or something? configlessnd_hda_intel is enabled as a module, as
is the Realtek codec; the system picked up on the device fine.

Thanks,

Hunter

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound After Reboot, or, More Troubles with Firmware?

[eric]

On 12/18/2017 08:18 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> While fixing my wifi card issues, I came across yet another issue. I
> set the snd-hda-intel PCH as my default soundcard, but I have no sound
> whatsoever, which renders the system pretty much inoperable to me. I
> tried the following:
> amixer set Master unmute
> amixer set Speaker unmute
> amixer set Headphone unmute
> These all went to no evail; no speech from espeakup, and nothing from
> speaker-test. Am I missing something here? Is there an amixer set All
> unmute or something? configlessnd_hda_intel is enabled as a module, as
> is the Realtek codec; the system picked up on the device fine.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hunter
> 
> 



Hunter,

I am a new gentoo user and had trouble getting my sound card to work.
It took me a lot of head scratching and I was able to finally get it to
be recognized.

I don't know what the statement below means or where you set this
configuration.

> set the snd-hda-intel PCH as my default soundcard


On my system

$ lspci | grep Audio

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10f1 (rev a1)

and

$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia_drm             40960  1
nvidia_modeset        864256  4 nvidia_drm
nvidia              13398016  170 nvidia_modeset
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     45056  0
xhci_pci               16384  0
xhci_hcd              139264  1 xhci_pci
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    16384  0
i2c_hid                20480  0

My kernel config file shows

# cat .config | grep SND_HDA

CONFIG_SND_HDA=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is not set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=m
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL is not set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=m
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054 is not set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CORE=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_I915=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE=2048


What are you using for your sound?  ALSA or PulseAudio?

I ended up going with PulseAudio myself to get my sound working.

Hope any of this helps you,

Eric

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound After Reboot, or, More Troubles with Firmware?

[Dale]

Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> While fixing my wifi card issues, I came across yet another issue. I
> set the snd-hda-intel PCH as my default soundcard, but I have no sound
> whatsoever, which renders the system pretty much inoperable to me. I
> tried the following:
> amixer set Master unmute
> amixer set Speaker unmute
> amixer set Headphone unmute
> These all went to no evail; no speech from espeakup, and nothing from
> speaker-test. Am I missing something here? Is there an amixer set All
> unmute or something? configlessnd_hda_intel is enabled as a module, as
> is the Realtek codec; the system picked up on the device fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hunter
>
>


It's been a loooooong time since I had to deal with this.  I recall
unmuting the ones you listed but there is another one that I had to
unmute and I can't recall what it was for sure.  I want to say it was
Kmix, since I use KDE, but not sure.  If it's loading correctly, I bet
something somewhere is muted.  I sort of wish that wasn't the default.

I might add, I once plugged the speakers into the wrong plug too.  It
looked like the right one.  lol 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound After Reboot, or, More Troubles with Firmware?

[Adam Carter]

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> While fixing my wifi card issues, I came across yet another issue. I
> set the snd-hda-intel PCH as my default soundcard, but I have no sound
> whatsoever, which renders the system pretty much inoperable to me. I
> tried the following:
> amixer set Master unmute
> amixer set Speaker unmute
> amixer set Headphone unmute
> These all went to no evail; no speech from espeakup, and nothing from
> speaker-test. Am I missing something here? Is there an amixer set All
> unmute or something? configlessnd_hda_intel is enabled as a module, as
> is the Realtek codec; the system picked up on the device fine.
>
>
Did you setup /etc/asound.conf or .asoundrc ?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA

I was under the impression that pulse uses the lower level ALSA stuff, so
you can use ALSA without pulse but not pulse without ALSA

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Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound After Reboot, or, More Troubles with Firmware?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:18:06PM -0500, Hunter Jozwiak wrote
> Hello again,
> 
> While fixing my wifi card issues, I came across yet another issue. I
> set the snd-hda-intel PCH as my default soundcard, but I have no sound
> whatsoever, which renders the system pretty much inoperable to me. I
> tried the following:
> amixer set Master unmute
> amixer set Speaker unmute
> amixer set Headphone unmute
> These all went to no evail; no speech from espeakup, and nothing from
> speaker-test. Am I missing something here? Is there an amixer set All
> unmute or something? configlessnd_hda_intel is enabled as a module, as
> is the Realtek codec; the system picked up on the device fine.

  Did you run "alsamixer" and check if sound is muted?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications