No sound from headphones/speakers, possibly from hdmi

[Member raakken]

Hi
Just installed antix for the first time on an old computer someone gave me. Just have to start with that i don’t know if aux/jack infront or on the back works, but i had sound from the hdmi when i ran lubuntu.
I love antix, but i’m used to more gui and use win on work, so i’m abit rusty
here is what aplay -lL gives:

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default
plugequal
preamp
duplex
hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
and here is alsabat:
aplay -lL 
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default
plugequal
preamp
duplex
hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

and 

lspci | grep Audio
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler HDMI Audio

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec
Codec: ATI R6xx HDMI

soundcard: generic:hda-intel something

mind you, i don’t know what i’m doing:D
Can someone help me get sound to my speakers/headphones? And, what info do you need?
thanks Fredrik

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by raakken. Reason: more info

[Member sybok]

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Please search the forum for sound issues because similar topics have already been discussed.
Also, you could provide more information:
No sound from all applications, from some only etc; it is advisable to specify your system specifics further by providing output of ‘inxi -Fxz’.

If anything fails, you could install pulseaudio + pavucontrol, start pulseaudio ‘pulseaudio –start’, uncomment similar line in ‘~/.desktop-session/startup’.
Some people prefer ‘alsa’ over ‘pulseaudio’, hence they may be able to guide you through the issue better.

[Member raakken]

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Sorry, been away on job…
I will try to search some more, though i didn’t find anything before i posted.
inxi -Fxz gives:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: SAPPHIRE model: IPC-350DM1W v: 1AOVQ055 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4.6.4 date: 10/30/2012 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 
  model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus charge: Full 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: AMD E-350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bobcat rev: 0 
  cache: L2: 512 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 6385 
  Speed: 1550 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1550 2: 1588 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] vendor: PC Partner Limited 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
  OpenGL: 
  renderer: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Wrestler HDMI Audio vendor: PC Partner Limited 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: e000 
  bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: ZyDAS ZD1211B 802.11g type: USB driver: zd1211rw bus-ID: 1-5:2 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 4.84 GiB (1.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3320820AS size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 286.93 GiB used: 4.84 GiB (1.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.25 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 49.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 140 Uptime: 5m Memory: 3.45 GiB used: 730.4 MiB (20.7%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1575 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

No sound from any application, neither from speakers(active) or headphones. Speakers tested with chromebook with gallium os, and works fine
thanks

[Member PPC]

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It’s basic, I know, but have you really tested if the output is not muted/set to 0? Test, running alsamixer…

P.

[Member raakken]

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I’m very new to this, only used debian, ubuntu, mint and some other with a bit more userfreindly gui:D
I tried opening it, but i could only toggle on off for spfif, which i dont have on this computer
tried playing a mp3 file, and the app said “couldn’t open audio”

[Anonymous]

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Hi raakken,

In the control center under hardware you can run the soundcard chooser
and try switching between generic audio and hdmi audio and see if either
option gives you sound output.

[Member raakken]

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Thanks for the tips linuxdaddy, and hi:)
it just says i only have one card and cannot choose

[Moderator caprea]

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You can try to install pulseaudio with package installer.
menu > control-centre > software > package installer > audio > pulseaudio

Afterwards you have to make the pulseaudio daemon autostart
menu > control-centre > session > configuration of the user

In the opening startup tab there’s the line

## Uncomment if using pulseaudio (you need to install it). Make sure it starts before volumeicon.
#pulseaudio -D &

change it to

## Uncomment if using pulseaudio (you need to install it). Make sure it starts before volumeicon.
pulseaudio -D &

Reboot

[Member raakken]

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Thanks for the help. I did that, but nothing changes… Could it be the outputs are faulty?
when i click “test sound”, nothing happens, just quickly shows the terminal for half a seconds and nothing…
the mp3 player still says “couldn’t open audio”
No volume control at the bottom right(but that could be normal to this distro)
I like this distro so i don’t want to change right away, but i need sound:) have ordered a cheap usb sound card, so maybe that will sort things out?
any further help would be appreciated

[Member raakken]

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updated the kernel. no error messaqge from xmms, but no sound. spdif is gone, and it now says master, so getting somewhere. But no sound, sorry to say

[Moderator caprea]

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And did you try to set the sound with pavucontrol, which should be installed now together with pulseaudio ?
Otherwise you have to install pavucontrol.
Start some sound with xmms and open pavucontrol.

[Anonymous]

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the hardware could be faulty, anyway to check that on a usb iso of another distro/os?
screen shots of the different mixer windows would help too.

[Member ModdIt]

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when i click “test sound”, nothing happens, just quickly shows the terminal for half a seconds and nothing…

Had that yesteday, removing the alsa config files in home sorted out the issue for me.

Also have no volume icon, still trying to find out how to fix, Kids want it badly, me too
my Teufel soundsystem remote setting feature is dead. Sad at the high price and short age.

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Volume Icon now fixed, suggestion by LinuxDaddy in older post worked.

Set card in Controll center, shutdown restart. That together with above was what I needed.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by ModdIt.

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