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Mohammad Moghimi
Asked: 2011-11-05 17:07:40 +0800 CST

Sound not working on an Intel 5 Series/3400

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lspci gives me these two devices:

$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730

There are two devices listed in System Settings|Sound|Output:

  • RV710/730 Digital Stereo (HDMI)
  • Internal Audio Analog Stereo

And finally, the are not muted!

Also, when I run an application that accesses the sound card, I can see it in the Applications tab.

Any ideas?

11.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It seems that the new kernel update (3.0.0-13) solved the problem.

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  2. I am depending on a previous Launchpad q/a (last answer) [1] and suggest compiling Alsa. But instead of grabbing Realtek drivers (same as Alsa) just download latest files via alsa-project.org [2]. You need to download just alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils packages. Pick latest ones which has 1.0.24 version. After that just compile the packages as explained there.

    If you get an error about panelw library while compiling alsa-utils, just change the configure step as this:

    ./configure --with-curses=ncurses

    [1] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/93857
    [2] http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Download

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  3. I had the same problem. I solved reinstalling alsa modules sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-$(uname -r)

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