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Debian 8 - no sound at startup

Hello! Problem is: When i power on the system (debian 8) tere is no sound by default. I have to unplug and replug the cinch cable to the pci soundcard, then it works.

I figured so far:
Daemons-log shows following entry after replugging the cable

Code:

01/13/16 06:18:31 PM        computer        rtkit-daemon[1416]        Successfully made thread 1910 of process 1769 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.

before i replug the cable top -H -p 1910 shows

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 1769 admin        9 -11  164304  8832  6740 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.08 pulseaudio                          

 1775 admin        -6  0  164304  8832  6740 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.00 alsa-source-AD1                      

 1776 admin        20  0  164304  8832  6740 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.00 null-sink

before and

Code:

 1910 admin        -6  0  239136  9276  7132 S  1.0  0.4  0:01.50 alsa-sink-AD198                      

 1769 admin        9 -11  239136  9276  7132 S  0.3  0.4  0:00.86 pulseaudio                          

 1775 admin        -6  0  239136  9276  7132 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.00 alsa-source-AD1

afterwards.

lspci | grep audio shows:

Code:

00:0f.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

pulseaudio is started by systemd at boot, but i don't understand what's going on when i replug the cinch cable nor what to change to make it work again. I suppose it has to do with ownership because 'speaker-test' run by root gives output whereas no sound soundoutput when run by 1000. When replugging the cable it works fine Thanks in advance

You might want to post what sound card you have so others can give you a hand with this.
The command for finding out the snd crd is aplay -l (small letter L)

I can't imagine constantly having to unplug and re plug in the cable to the card.
I had the same problem with no sound and no matter what I tried nothing worked.

Hopefully other members will know how to fix this and chime in to advise you.
Sorry I don't know more.

https://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ
https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-sound-917079/

Before replugging, check dmesg for if the module was loaded for the soundcard. And check again after replugging. It could be blacklisted in the /etc/modprobe.d/ stuff. Or pcspkr and other modules getting in the way. Or something less obvious like missing a .asoundrc. Or installing a package or two will auto-fix the issue.

# apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-oss libasound2

Most of which is not installed by default or grabbed by pulse if you start with a minimum install with something like debootstrap.

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You might want to post what sound card you have so others can give you a hand with this.
The command for finding out the snd crd is aplay -l (small letter L)

it says:

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No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.)
card 0: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 0: AD1988B Analog [AD1988B Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 1: AD1988B Digital [AD1988B Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia_1 [HDA NVidia], device 2: AD1988B Alt Analog [AD1988B Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The line about non-root-pulseaudio is the same as when i type 'alsactl --start' as root but i don't know what that means exactly. It seems to be 2 devices, a onboard soundcard for front side plugs and a pci device.

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Before replugging, check dmesg for if the module was loaded for the soundcard. And check again after replugging.

dmesg -wH doesn't show any changes, the only messages are shown in the daemon-log.

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It could be blacklisted in the /etc/modprobe.d/ stuff. Or pcspkr and other modules getting in the way. Or something less obvious like missing a .asoundrc.

It seems to be loaded scince 'speaker-test' run as root works fine, when run by admin it doesn't.

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Or installing a package or two will auto-fix the issue.
# apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-oss libasound2

Most of which is not installed by default or grabbed by pulse if you start with a minimum install with something like debootstrap.

I consider something like 'dpkg-reconfigure pulseaudio' but as sort of a noob i am not fully aware of possible followup-issues. Could that cause any trouble?

Anyhow, thank you for answers.

apt-get install pavucontrol log out log back in. now open pavucontrol and set your device you want to use.

If it works as root and doesn't as a user (admin/non-root), then you're probably not in the audio group.

$ groups

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If it works as root and doesn't as a user (admin/non-root), then you're probably not in the audio group.

$ groups

strangely that isn't the case. admin is in audio group. I guess it has something to do with the ownership (or the priority) of the thread of pulseaudio.

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apt-get install pavucontrol log out log back in. now open pavucontrol and set your device you want to use.

thanks, i'll try that on next boot.

Thanks! pavucontrol did the trick