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Alienware 17.1 Sound Troubleshooting

Asked by R J Davey

After a recent (05/19/2018 08:03) update/upgrade cycle, the sound dropped out of this Alienware 17.1 laptop running Ubuntu Xenial, v.16.04 / Linux Mint: Serena, v.18.1.

The Ubuntu community sound troubleshooting guide (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure) requested that a new question be opened for this situation.

After running:
wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && chmod +x ./alsa-info.sh && ./alsa-info.sh

The output is available at the ALSA project website ([http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=6f73cca730b658d7395a79e0118c5264883e5646) and the guide asked that I post it here as well.

!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.64
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Sat May 19 11:26:32 UTC 2018

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

Linux Mint 18.1 Serena \n \l DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 18.1 Serena" NAME="Linux Mint" ID=linuxmint ID_LIKE=ubuntu PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18.1" HOME_URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/" SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.linuxmint.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/" UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

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

Manufacturer: Alienware
Product Name: Alienware 17 R4
Product Version: 1.2.1
Firmware Version: 1.2.1
Board Vendor: Alienware
Board Name: Alienware 17 R4

!!ACPI Device Status Information
!!---------------

/sys/bus/acpi/devices/ACPI000C:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/DLL0773:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT33A1:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT33D5:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3400:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3403:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3403:01/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3403:02/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3403:03/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT340E:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3F0D:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:00/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:01/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:02/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:03/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:04/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:05/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:06/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:07/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:08/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:09/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:0a/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:0b/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:0c/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:0d/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:0e/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:0f/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:10/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:11/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:12/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:13/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:14/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:15/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXPOWER:16/status 1
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXVIDEO:01/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/MSFT0001:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/MSFT0101:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0103:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C02:01/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C02:03/status 3
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C02:05/status 3
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C04:00/status 31
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0A:03/status 31
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0C:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0D:00/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:00/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:01/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:02/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:03/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:04/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:05/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:06/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:07/status 9
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/device:11/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/device:69/status 15
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/device:78/status 11

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

Kernel release: 4.4.0-53-generic
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
Processor: x86_64
SMP Enabled: Yes

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

Driver version:
Library version:
Utilities version: 1.1.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

snd_pcsp: index=-2
snd_usb_audio: index=-2
snd_atiixp_modem: index=-2
snd_intel8x0m: index=-2
snd_via82xx_modem: index=-2
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=generic

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

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

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 May 19 07:24 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 May 19 07:24 /dev/snd/timer

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

APLAY

aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

ARECORD

arecord: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

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

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

--startcollapse--
--endcollapse--

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

Module
rpcsec_gss_krb5
auth_rpcgss
nfsv4
nfs
lockd
grace
fscache
ctr
ccm
rfcomm
xt_CHECKSUM
iptable_mangle
ipt_MASQUERADE
nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4
iptable_nat
nf_nat_ipv4
nf_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4
xt_conntrack
nf_conntrack
ipt_REJECT
nf_reject_ipv4
xt_tcpudp
arc4
bridge
stp
llc
ebtable_filter
ebtables
ip6table_filter
ip6_tables
iptable_filter
ip_tables
x_tables
bnep
binfmt_misc
nls_iso8859_1
dell_wmi
ath10k_pci
uvcvideo
ath10k_core
videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_memops
ath
videobuf2_v4l2
videobuf2_core
mac80211
v4l2_common
videodev
btusb
media
btrtl
x86_pkg_temp_thermal
coretemp
cfg80211
input_leds
joydev
serio_raw
mei_me
mei
processor_thermal_device
intel_soc_dts_iosf
shpchp
hci_uart
btbcm
int3403_thermal
btqca
int340x_thermal_zone
btintel
bluetooth
intel_lpss_acpi
intel_lpss
intel_hid
acpi_als
acpi_pad
dell_rbtn
kfifo_buf
int3400_thermal
sparse_keymap
tpm_crb
acpi_thermal_rel
mac_hid
industrialio
kvm_intel
kvm
irqbypass
parport_pc
sunrpc
ppdev
lp
parport
autofs4
btrfs
xor
raid6_pq
drbg
ansi_cprng
algif_skcipher
af_alg
dm_crypt
dm_mirror
dm_region_hash
dm_log
hid_generic
usbhid
nouveau
crct10dif_pclmul
crc32_pclmul
i915_bpo
ghash_clmulni_intel
aesni_intel
mxm_wmi
aes_x86_64
lrw
gf128mul
glue_helper
ablk_helper
cryptd
intel_ips
ttm
i2c_algo_bit
drm_kms_helper
syscopyarea
sysfillrect
psmouse
sysimgblt
fb_sys_fops
ahci
drm
libahci
wmi
video
i2c_hid
pinctrl_sunrisepoint
hid
pinctrl_intel
fjes

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

Thank you for any assistance that can be provided.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You are using Linux Mint. Mint is not supported by Canonical or the Ubuntu community.

Mint's support community is entirely separate from Ubuntu's. I suggest you post on the Mint forum here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com

None of the "Ubuntu based" distributions are supported here.

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