I am new to linux (specifically to ubuntu)


So, I have been dealing with this issue the last 3 days and i haven't gotten anywhere.

My audio jacks doesn't work, neither my digital output. HDMI audio does work, and USB audio too.

My motherboard is GA-Z270X-Gaming 9 (rev. 1.0) Link to the website of my motherboard

According to the manufacture, this motherboard has an integrated audio chip which is

1---Creative® Sound Core 3D chip 2---2 x JRC NJM2114 and 1 x TI Burr Brown® OPA2134 operational amplifiers 3---Support for Sound Blaster ZxRi 4---High Definition Audio 5---2/5.1-channel 6---Support for S/PDIF Out

The jacks and the digital audio work very well under windows, but not in ubuntu 18.04

The card is recognized by the system and is on:

sudo lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio" 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 200 Series PCH HD Audio Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 133 Memory at ed720000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at ed710000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

sudo aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: CA0132 Digital [CA0132 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Now, I have try numerous configurations and also some kernel fixes, but non of them worked. I really don't care about the digital output at this point, i just want my jacks to work.

I have all the alsa drivers and also pulse audio installed.

Please help! I am at a point of just give up and install windows. Which i really really really really don't want to do. I love my conky and pantheon set up T..T

Have you checked to see if the sound is muted or if the volumes are all set to zero?

It's a very typical sound problem to encounter. The rest of the information seems normal to me.

The Creative CA0132 Audio Codec is included in the following Audio Cards: Sound Blaster Z, ZxR, Recon 3D, Recon 3Di and ours, (which is not fully supported yet) ZxRi.
The person who made this possible is known with the user name: Conmanx360.
I ask him what happened to the ZxRi support. He said that he doesn't knows if someone even ended trying it (during those days they where not many motherboards with ZxRi). He also mentioned that the ZxRi is very close to Recon 3Di but that there is some specific things that ZxRi does differently. He suggest me to try setting the quirk to Recon 3Di to check if it functions properly.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming G1 which uses the same audio as the GA-Z270-Gaming 8 and GA-Z270-Gaming 9.
I also tried this motherboard with macOS but it's also not fully supported yet, although almost all ports works.
Making this work is a lot of time consuming. When I find more info and tools I will give it another try. Maybe we are lucky and this talent user finish supporting CA0132 with ZxRi.
If you found out something else, please let me know. I'm going to keep searching to see if there is something new related to this particular sound card. I hope we succeed. Cheers.
PD. At least I have Digital Out working with Ubuntu Studio 18.04 LTS

Have you tried aswitching to another sound card in your mixer gui?

Oh, and please use code tags for code & output.

If you have not already done so, install the Pulse Audio Mixer (pavucontrol--it's in the repos). It gives much more granular control over input and output streams and devices.

You may find that those devices are muted under pavucontrol.

Heya, just completely switched to Linux from Win10 after I finally snapped in rage (the start menu broke, again, for the 100000th time) and this was the first thing I had to fix for myself and I found the solution.

Open alsamixer via bash (as user) and select your sound card by pressing F6.
Scroll (horizontally) through the available options until you find an entry that represents your line-out / headphone jack. In my case there is a LO / HP and a HP/Speaker switch (that switches between the two as preferred output sinks).
Unmute the devicou you want to use and/or switch the output to the desired output.

Sadly, if you want to use hdmi or the back line-out again you'll have to repeat these steps. Auto-detection when you plug anything in or out just doesn't work with this card.
But you can probably write a bash script to do that for you...

Cheers!