Realtek HD Audio: No Sound Device

Asked by Aspie

A day or two ago, I lost my sound and it doesn't appear to be any audio driver because when I goto sound preferences, there are no profiles. I ran updates but still no sound. I had sound before but when I was trying to install a Realtek HD Audio manager, I guess that messed up my sound.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

What is the output of:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash ./alsa-info.sh

Thanks

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Aspie (freespiritaspie) said :
#2

Ran it through terminal and it says:

"--2011-02-27 13:20:49-- http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
Resolving alsa-project.org...
77.48.224.243
Connecting to alsa-project.org|77.48.224.243|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh [following]
--2011-02-27 13:20:50-- http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh
Resolving git.alsa-project.org... 77.48.224.243
Reusing existing connection to alsa-project.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: `alsa-info.sh'

    [ <=> ] 27,247 77.5K/s in 0.3s

2011-02-27 13:20:53 (77.5 KB/s) - `alsa-info.sh' saved [27247]

me@NotBillGates:~$ ./alsa-info.sh
bash: ./alsa-info.sh: Permission denied"

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

ok run:

chmod +x ~/alsa-info.sh; ~/alsa-info.sh

Should be ok

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Aspie (freespiritaspie) said :
#4

I get:

"me@NotBillGates:~$ chmod +x ~/alsa-info.sh; ~/alsa-info.sh
ALSA Information Script v 0.4.60
--------------------------------

This script visits the following commands/files to collect diagnostic
information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware.

  dmesg
  lspci
  lsmod
  aplay
  amixer
  alsactl
  /proc/asound/
  /sys/class/sound/
  ~/.asoundrc (etc.)

See '/home/me/alsa-info.sh --help' for command line options.

cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/modules: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /dev/snd/*: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1504: No soundcards found...
cat: /tmp/alsa-info.xjKZWjTAR4/alsactl.tmp: No such file or directory
Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org? [y/N] : y
Uploading information to www.alsa-project.org ... Done!

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=9cfb1cf2d36f0a25cb70981c5aae32bbae744540

Please inform the person helping you."

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#5

Driver version:
Library version: 1.0.23
Utilities version: 1.0.23

You are missing an ALSA driver. Use this:

http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/

To compile the driver installed and it should help

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Aspie (freespiritaspie) said :
#6

I'm stuck halfway through, where it says to unpack the 3 tar files. I get an error:

me@NotBillGates:~$ cd /home/me/Alsa
me@NotBillGates:~/Alsa$ sudo tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.23.tar.bz2 me@NotBillGates:~/Alsa$ sudo tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.23.tar.bz2
tar (child): Cannot connect to file: resolve failed

bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
 perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Invalid argument
 Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Child returned status 128
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
me@NotBillGates:~/Alsa$

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