Ubuntu
alsa-driver package

Sound only works for a few minutes after boot

Asked by David on 2015-01-13

In trying to get my sound working, it comes on for a short time then quits until reboot. here is what I have done:

david@SuzieQ:~$ wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && chmod +x ./alsa-info.sh && ./alsa-info.sh
--2015-01-12 20:12:13-- http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
Resolving www.alsa-project.org (www.alsa-project.org)... 77.48.224.243
Connecting to www.alsa-project.org (www.alsa-project.org)|77.48.224.243|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=blob_plain;f=alsa-info/alsa-info.sh [following]
--2015-01-12 20:12:14-- http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=blob_plain;f=alsa-info/alsa-info.sh
Resolving git.alsa-project.org (git.alsa-project.org)... 77.48.224.243
Connecting to git.alsa-project.org (git.alsa-project.org)|77.48.224.243|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-sh]
Saving to: ‘alsa-info.sh’

[ <=> ] 27,812 114KB/s in 0.2s

2015-01-12 20:12:15 (114 KB/s) - ‘alsa-info.sh’ saved [27812]

ALSA-Info v 0.4.64
┌────────────────────────ALSA-Info script v 0.4.64───────────────────────────┐─
│ │
│ 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 './alsa-info.sh --help' for command line options. │
│ │
│ │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ < OK > │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

ALSA-Info v 0.4.64
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

──────────────────────────Information collected─────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ │
│ Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org? │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ < UPLOAD / SHARE > < SAVE LOCALLY > │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

    ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │ Uploading information to www.alsa-project.org ... │
    │ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
    │ │ 0% │ │
    │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
    └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌───────────────────────────Information uploaded─────────────────────────────┐
│ Would you like to see the uploaded information? │
│ │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ < Yes > < No > │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= │q
│ !!################################ │
│ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.64 │
│ !!################################ │
│ │
│ !!Script ran on: Tue Jan 13 04:12:55 UTC 2015 │
│ │
│ │
│ !!Linux Distribution │
│ !!------------------ │
│ │
│ Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS \n \l DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14. │
│ │
│ │
│ !!DMI Information │
│ !!--------------- │
│ │
│ Manufacturer: TOSHIBA │
│ Product Name: Satellite L755D │
├────┴(+)────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────2%──────┤
│ < EXIT > │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘