Ubuntu 12.04 unstable: how to set the profile of a sound card ?
With Ubuntu < 12.04, the Sound menu allows to select various profiles for each sound cards a drop down list in the Hardware tab. I couldn't find this feature in the latest daily-live image of Ubuntu 12.04 (from April 1st).
I'd appreciate if someone would kindly point me where to change this ?
Thanks in advance
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- Simon Déziel
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- 2012-06-21
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- 2012-06-21
Sounds like a bug. You can use alsamixer to set it in CLI though
Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said : | #2 |
@actionparsnip, thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately I cannot find how to set a card's profile in alsamixer.
What I am interested in is the way to select the "Active Profile" from the "Profiles" list :
$ pactl list cards
Card #0
Name: alsa_card.
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Owner Module: 4
Properties:
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
alsa.
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.
device.product.id = "3b56"
device.
device.
device.string = "0"
device.
module-
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
Profiles:
output:
output:
output:
output:
output:
output:
input:
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority. 0)
Active Profile: output:
This kind of control is available in the GUI in Ubuntu < 12.04 so I think that is a bug/regression as you suggested.
Thanks again.
@Simon, Sorry for the late answer. I only seen this moring and providing an answer.
That problem was already occurred mine. I think it is occurring with Intel cards only.
I have this card: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04).
I solved that problem, of not being able to select a profile in Audio settings.
I had only a profile for : "Digital Output: S/PDIF" only, no "Analog Stereo Output" like older releases.
And when i select the only available profile, all sound gone.
I need to logout and login again (after deleting .pulse folder in home directory) to activate the sound.
There is two solutions : (both I tested) as I answer the problem in several question in askubuntu.com site.
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##Solution 1: This is the shortcut solution
*(It worked for me with Only S/PDIF profile, Sound from both headphone and speaker and not being able to switch profile)*
1. Add this ppa by the command
`sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-
2, Update packages list. by
`sudo apt-get update`
3. Then install "alsa-hda-dkms" package:
`sudo apt-get install alsa-hda-dkms`.
Reboot, And See the result!
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## Solution 2: Compiling driver from source
1. Go to Realtek official site:
http://
, accept the disclaimer, then download the audio driver for linux/unix. You need to select version 3 for Kernel 3 or later.
2. Setup necessary tools to compile this driver.
`sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc make`
3. Extract the downloaded file, run `sudo ./install` file from a terminal after going to the extracted folder to compile the driver.
4. Read the `Readme.txt` file for more information.
5. Reboot your computer to only know that your problem is fixed!
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I have given answer to the same question here: http://
Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said : | #4 |
@Mohammad, thanks for your reply but my problem isn't with the Intel HDA card.
@Simon, Your output suggests that, it is "Intel HDA card". Have you tried them?
Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said : | #6 |
@Mohammad, you are right that the "pactl list cards" I initially gave is for an Intel HDA sound card. The problem isn't with the card itself but with the way to set a "default" profile for it. This question was answered in https:/
"When you select a device it will then become default."
Now the linked bug is about a missing profile for the EMU-404 sound card. This seems to be a regression introduced when the Gnome "Sound" menu was simplified. To simplify the UI, they started removing some of the multiple profiles exposed by a card. Unfortunately the specific profile I needed was also removed from the list even if the driver supports it.
Thanks again