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alsa-driver package

No Sound Cards Detected

Asked by Deepak

Hi,

Am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

My sound was working perfectly fine. Recently I ran a system update. After that the system is not detecting the sound card.

cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

Here is the output of
lspci -vvv | nl | grep Audio

   395 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
   799 03:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

alsa-info.sh output can be found here.

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=66d3fdf9ef68575cabc25d592bdf03f78e15b226

Please help me in resolving the issue.

I need to get it resolved soon. Please help !!!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.60
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Sun May 27 14:41:23 UTC 2012

!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS"

!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer: System manufacturer
Product Name: System Product Name
Product Version: System Version

!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release: 3.2.0-25-generic
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
Processor: x86_64
SMP Enabled: Yes

!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version: 1.0.24
Library version: 1.0.25
Utilities version: 1.0.25

!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------

!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - Yes

Jack:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
      Running - No

!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

--- no soundcards ---

!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
03:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's
!!--------------------------------------------------------

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:3a3e
 Subsystem: 1043:8436
--
03:00.1 0403: 10de:0be3 (rev a1)
 Subsystem: 1acc:32d3

!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
!!--------------------------------

snd-atiixp-modem: index=-2
snd-intel8x0m: index=-2
snd-via82xx-modem: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2
snd-usb-caiaq: index=-2
snd-usb-ua101: index=-2
snd-usb-us122l: index=-2
snd-usb-usx2y: index=-2
snd-cmipci: mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
snd-pcsp: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2
snd-hda-intel: model=auto

!!Loaded sound module options
!!--------------------------

!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------

crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 1 May 27 19:45 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 33 May 27 19:45 /dev/snd/timer

!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!------------

APLAY

aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...

ARECORD

arecord: device_list:252: no soundcards found...

!!Amixer output
!!-------------

!!Alsactl output
!!-------------

--startcollapse--
--endcollapse--

!!All Loaded Modules
!!------------------

Module
ip6table_filter
ip6_tables
ebtable_nat
ebtables
xt_state
ipt_REJECT
xt_CHECKSUM
iptable_mangle
xt_tcpudp
iptable_filter
pci_stub
vboxpci
vboxnetadp
vboxnetflt
vboxdrv
ipt_MASQUERADE
iptable_nat
nf_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv4
ip_tables
x_tables
kvm_intel
kvm
vesafb
parport_pc
ppdev
bnep
rfcomm
bluetooth
nfsd
nfs
binfmt_misc
lockd
fscache
auth_rpcgss
nfs_acl
sunrpc
mxm_wmi
snd_hda_codec
snd_hwdep
snd_pcm
nvidia
bridge
dm_multipath
stp
snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq
snd_seq_device
snd_timer
snd
i7core_edac
edac_core
soundcore
snd_page_alloc
wmi
asus_atk0110
mac_hid
lp
parport
firewire_ohci
firewire_core
r8169
usbhid
crc_itu_t
hid

!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!------------------

[ 23.103592] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 23.107693] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol vga_default_device (err 0)
[ 23.111286] r8169 0000:07:01.0: eth0: link down
--
[ 23.122211] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br0: link is not ready
[ 23.130496] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol vga_default_device (err 0)
[ 23.130845] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol vga_default_device (err 0)
[ 23.193192] type=1400 audit(1338128109.016:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=947 comm="apparmor_parser"

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Try:

killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.pulse*

Wait 10 seconds then reboot

HTH

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Deepak (deepak-panda) said : 		#3

Thanks for the response.

The steps recommended did NOT solve the issue. Still am getting no sound cards issue.

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Grecu Ionut Florin (protos87) said : 		#4

I have the same problem. After an update, there is no sound

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Best Grecu Ionut Florin (protos87) said : 		#5

I have found a solution to this bug.
For me it was something like this:

Sound was working until:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install alsa-hda-dkms

At this point i had no sound and my sound properties was showing dummy output.

apt-get purge alsa-dha-dkms seems to fix the problem and sound is back on.

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Deepak (deepak-panda) said : 		#6

Thanks Grecu Ionut Florin, that solved my question.

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Deepak (deepak-panda) said : 		#7

Thanks all for your time and help.

But I want to understand why did it get into the problem at first place.

Also shall I remove the alsa-daily update from my repository?

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Grecu Ionut Florin (protos87) said : 		#8

I don't know... Makes sense to remove it since you don't use it anymore. You will be able to add it anytime you want.