Can you check by entering in terminal if sound-theme-freedesktop is installed:

alps install sound-theme-freedesktop

Then you can choose system sounds in alsamixer. If sound theme is installed and there is no sound, I am running out of clues here because you say you are getting sound output in vlc but nowhere else.

For what its worth can u also try rebuilding the kernel. Use the same config as in the /boot directory. Sound drivers are built as modules in this config. Try building it with y option. Maybe it is being caused by a driver conflict. Let's just rule this possibility out.

Also if you can post the output of these commands so that I can inspect..

lspci
lsmod
dear

I would look into it. Two of my laptops are in the middle of a build. Once either one of them is done I am going to inspect the config try rebuilding and testing and then report back to you. Though I do not have the same hardware as yours, I would still try figuring out what could be wrong.

Thanks for your patience:-)

sorry the command above was dmesg and not dear
:-)

root [ /home/jep ]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. AMD RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780D [Radeon HD 3300]
01:05.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 HDMI Audio [Radeon (HD) 3000 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
03:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 70)
root [ /home/jep ]#


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root [ /home/jep ]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
fuse 81444 3
cfg80211 242715 0
rfkill 17817 2 cfg80211
kvm_amd 51470 0
kvm 349027 1 kvm_amd
pcspkr 2222 0
irqbypass 3391 1 kvm
sp5100_tco 6075 0
psmouse 107630 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 38579 1
i2c_piix4 10453 0
k10temp 3704 0
joydev 10240 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 68295 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 58505 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
uvcvideo 75190 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 4940 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 1883 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
snd_usb_audio 154332 2
videobuf2_v4l2 13730 1 uvcvideo
videodev 129712 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
snd_usbmidi_lib 20997 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 20996 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
videobuf2_core 28072 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
snd_seq_device 4161 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hda_intel 25174 7
snd_hda_codec 97595 4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_core 43558 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6400 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 89410 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core
snd_timer 21498 1 snd_pcm
snd 66509 29 snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_u sbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
sky2 49082 0
soundcore 6684 1 snd
shpchp 25592 0
8250_fintek 3086 0
asus_atk0110 9848 0
fjes 20647 0
evdev 12836 8
acpi_cpufreq 7866 0
tpm_tis 10767 0
tpm 35055 1 tpm_tis
processor 26034 1 acpi_cpufreq
sch_fq_codel 8079 2
ext4 389094 1
mbcache 8307 1 ext4
jbd2 63249 1 ext4
hid_generic 1487 0
usbhid 37455 0
hid 106277 2 hid_generic,usbhid
serio_raw 4954 0
firewire_ohci 31833 0
amdkfd 68180 1
amd_iommu_v2 7964 1 amdkfd
firewire_core 54287 1 firewire_ohci
radeon 1435288 2
hwmon 3943 3 asus_atk0110,k10temp,radeon
ttm 79938 1 radeon
wmi 8875 0
ipv6 326763 24
autofs4 23464 2
root [ /home/jep ]#

Attached Files

dmesg.txt (54.3 KB, 37 views)

Hi jep12345678,

In the dmesg output I see these lines towards the end:

[ 15.893771] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 16.194744] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 16.495723] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 16.796689] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 17.097663] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 17.398645] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 17.699606] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD
[ 18.000571] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC1D0: HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD

Those seem to be the cause of the issue I suspect. Then I googled for the following:

snd_hda_codec_hdmi HDMI ATI/AMD: no speaker allocation for ELD

and lots of search results appeared, most of them telling that its a kernel bug. A quick workaround might be to the following:

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set audio on
or
xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set audio auto

See if that works. In case it does'nt then please try rebuilding the kernel.

I had seen few people facing audio issues and this seemed to have resolved the same:

mkdir src
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...nux-4.5.tar.xz
tar xf linux-4.5.tar.xz
cd linux-4.5

cp /boot/config-4.5 .config
make menuconfig


Now go to Device Drivers and select it. Sound Card Support would be <M> press spacebar to change to <*> ---> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture change from <M> to <*> ---> HD-Audio ---> Inside HD-Audio change all <M> to <*>. I am not sure which one is your HDMI driver. Try changing all of them to <*>. Then save your config and exit.

make "-j`nproc`"
make modules_install
make firmware_install
cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage "/boot/vmlinuz-4.5"
cp -v System.map "/boot/System.map-4.5"
cp -v .config "/boot/config-4.5"

dracut -f /boot/initrd.img-4.5 `ls /lib/modules`

Then reboot to see if that helped...

No I tried everything but it is still nosound except in VLC.

I have also MintLinux and there everything works well.

I am happy to have sound in VLC although.

Can you try checking idf pulseaudio is running:

pulseaudio -C

Also try installing pavucontrol from:

http://freedesktop.org/software/puls...rol-3.0.tar.gz and running pavucontrol to see if you can change the devices settings in pavucontrol. I do not have a script for pavucontrol right now. I would shortly create one so that you can update it. Meanwhile, I guess:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

should be enough for the installation. Once installed, you can check if pavucontrol can help you make changes to HDMI output.

Please also check if you current user is in the audio group:

groups <username>

jep [ ~ ]$ pulseaudio -C
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
jep [ ~ ]$

Makefile:501: recipe for target 'pavucontrol-minimalstreamwidget.o' failed
make[1]: *** [pavucontrol-minimalstreamwidget.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/cache/alps/sources/pavucontrol-3.0/src'
Makefile:413: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
jep [ /var/cache/alps/sources/pavucontrol-3.0 ]$

jep [ ~ ]$ groups jep
jep : jep audio wheel
jep [ ~ ]$

Please give me some time, I would try pavucontrol and then upload the build script.

try seeing if pulseaudio comes up by:

sudo pulseaudio --kill
sudo pulseaudio --start

What you mean with this ?
I would try pavucontrol and then upload the build script.

I cant start pavucontrol and what build script shall I upload ?

I meant I would upload the scripts so that pavucontrol can be installed. Then you can run it by doing:

alps install pavucontrol

I am working on the script right now. Would upload in some time

Well, pavucontrol seems to be generating a lot of errors during build. I am trying to figure out what that means. I also checked in vlc preferences in the Audio tab, what is the Output Module selected in your case? Is it set to automatic? In case it is set to automatic, then try setting to Alsa Audio Output and then change Audio Device to HDMI and then try playing audio. This is just to eliminate alsa from the scene. There can be two reasons this is working in vlc and not in firefox and the sound is playing through speakers but not through HDMI. alsa or pulseaudio.

If you change the audio output module in vlc to alsa audio output and then you get no sound then it implies that issue is with pulse audio and we can work on getting it right.

Also what happened when you did this:

sudo pulseaudio --kill
sudo pulseaudio --start

Ok

VLC had automatic first and I had sound in VLC

I changed to alsa and I still had sound in VLC

Then I change to pulseaudio and I still have sound in VLC

Then I sudo pulseaudio --kill and I still have sound in VLC


Me Newbie you proffs

Ok.

I am running out of options here. Since last hour or so, I am trying to build pavucontrol with no results. There are a lot of errors and not much help from google. I have a strong belief that its pulseaudio that is the cause of the issue though without pavucontrol running its difficult to do so. I am trying another command line pulse audio mixer. Let me see how it works. Would reply shortly