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Speakers do not work on HP 6530b

Asked by manuel

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 on a laptop model, hp 6530b. I have spent numerous hours trying to get sound from the built in speakers with no luck. I can hear it through headphones but not through the speakers. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

This is the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/286610

Try this workaround:

Open a terminal and enter:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options

Add the following line at the end of the /etc/modprobe.d/options file:

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0

Save the file.

Regards,

Mark

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manuel (d12manuel) said : 		#2

Tried it, did a reboot but still no sound. On volume control, nothing is muted and I checked everything when I went to preference.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Hi,

Did you also make sure that all the audio channels are set to maximum volume in alsamixer (command line utility)?

Regards,

Mark

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Hi,

Correction: Did you also make sure that all the audio channels are set to maximum volume in alsamixer, except for external amplifier (alsamixer is a command line utility) ? The external amplifier should be disabled.

Regards,

Mark

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#5

Hi,

Another thing: also see if you can find the following file: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

If you can, then open it and add the following line at the end of the file:

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

Regards,

Mark

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manuel (d12manuel) said : 		#6

I don't see an external amp. in alsa mixer. I found: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, but when i added options snd-hda-inel model=laptop, it wouldn't let me save.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#7

Please use terminal and "sudo" prefix to get root privileges and you will be able to save.

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options

Hope this helps

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manuel (d12manuel) said : 		#8

I get access to, "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options", but i'm trying to get access to, "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base" so I can add "options snd-hda-intel model=laptop". If I open it with the terminal, it says command not found, but if I open it with RUN APPLICATION, it opens but it doesn't let me modify it. Any more suggestions?

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#9

Hi,

Try this procedure instead:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following command (copy/paste following command into the Terminal and then hit <enter>)

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Step 3: Add the following line to the end of the alsa-base file (using the gedit editor that was opened using step 2):

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0

Step 4: Save the file.

Step 5: Reboot pc and then retest sound

Step 6: If sound still does not work after step 5, then continue with step 7, or else STOP procedure here (if it "ain't broken, don't try to fix it" ;-)

Step 7: Run the following command (copy/paste the following command into the Terminal and then hit <enter>)

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Step 8: Remove the following line at the end of the alsa-base file (using the gedit editor that was opened using step 2):

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0

Step 9: Add the following line at the end of the alsa-base file:

options snd-hda-intel model=mobile

Step 10: Save the file.

Step 11: Reboot pc and then retest sound

This is the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/286610

Regards,

Mark

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manuel (d12manuel) said : 		#10

This worked like a charm. Thank you all.

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Berthiggins (profanasaurus) said : 		#11

The /etc/modprobe.d/options entry worked for me