My Linux Mint gives no sound [Partly Solved]

silveringking · 02-17-2016, 03:24 PM

Hi, so I must start by saying that I have good news and bad news about this problem of mine, the good news is that I found a solution to the problem, the bad news is that it just solves my problem temporarily. (Hence the partly solved in the title. What I need of you is a more permanent solution.)

So here's the problem, I'm on a old and weak laptop, an Asus X51L, I will be stuck with this for a month because my regular laptop is on warranty, so naturally I installed an easy distro just to get me by the month, I currently have Linux Mint 17.3, first the sound in the computer worked fine in my computer, then after an update it stopped working at all, I still don't know what is the problem, but I do know a solution and I have some ideas.

So I tried many solution, messing with alsa mixer, uninstall and install alsa and then force reload, installing pavu control, etc, etc.

However only one worked for me, I had to kill pulseaudio, force the reload of alsa mixer and then starting the pulseaudio again.

Like this:

Code:

pulseaudio --kill
carlos@carlos-X51L ~ $ sudo alsa force-reload
[sudo] password for carlos:
Terminating processes: 1063
1063 2443
2443.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-codec-si3054 snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-codec-generic snd-hda-intel snd-usb-audio snd-hda-controller snd-hda-codec snd-usbmidi-lib snd-hwdep snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-rawmidi snd-seq snd-pcm snd-seq-device snd-timer (failed: modules still loaded: snd-hda-codec-si3054 snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-codec-generic snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-codec-si3054 snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-codec-generic snd-hda-intel snd-usb-audio snd-hda-controller snd-hda-codec snd-usbmidi-lib snd-hwdep snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-rawmidi snd-seq snd-pcm snd-seq-device snd-timer.
carlos@carlos-X51L ~ $ pulseaudio --start

(Here is the link for a pastebin if it gets too confusing: http://pastebin.com/m6Ef6vte )

After this audio works fine, if plug in headphones it still works, however if plug them off the sound stops working again.

I can try to do the same thing, but it won't work until I reboot.

However I noticed a difference when I force reload alsa the second time before I reboot, the processes 1063, 2443, 2443 aren't terminated again (very probably because they were killed for good), that part is just skipped, I believe this processes are somewhat related to my problem, but I don't know what they are, or what they do.

So what I'm looking for? A permanent solution to my problem, I want to be able to listen to everything with or without headphones, if you could help me it would be very appreciated.

Thank you!

silveringking · 02-19-2016, 01:07 PM

So I am looking for solutions, and for now I found a temporary solution, doing the following commands will work into restore sound every time someone starts a session:

Quote:

pulseaudio --kill
sudo alsa force-reload
pulseaudio --start
alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state restore

For what I understood pulseaudio has some weird bug for a long time.

I will update this thread with info I find necessary every time I find something, so others can search this solution.

dbc254 · 02-20-2016, 04:48 AM

The only "issues" I'm having as a new convert from Kubuntu 14.10, is there's no sound at startup or shutdown as there was in Kubuntu. Everything else is 10x better! Just can't figure out how to do this...

silveringking · 02-21-2016, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dbc254

The only "issues" I'm having as a new convert from Kubuntu 14.10, is there's no sound at startup or shutdown as there was in Kubuntu. Everything else is 10x better! Just can't figure out how to do this...

Sometimes that comes from the hardware, I'm having problems in the latest versions of Mint, the older never gave me trouble, but I only tested with Asus laptops because that's what I have.