Hey there,
I suppose I just need some more direction. I worked through the troubleshooter here without any success, and I would appreciate some more help in getting my sound working.
From my searches I did manage to understand that this chipset can be a flakey jerk. Yet another reason for me to dislike Dell (XPS410 Desktop).
Some info first:
The sound isn't muted.
lspci -v | less
sudo aplay -l
wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash ./alsa-info.sh
output website: (removed)
find /lib/modules/`uname -r` | grep snd gave me a wall of text.
I had read about the possibility of loading backports to make this chipset work, but I can't seem to find any for natty.
I read about a trick that worked for some: shutdown > unplug > pull battery. Well, this is a desktop, so I didn't go and pull the motherboard battery, but I did unplug the computer and surge protector for a while.
I really don't know what else to try.
Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT - I added ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa and grabbed linux-alsa-driver-modules-2.6.38-11-generic and rebooted. No change. (Source)
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EDIT #2 -
I'm obviously a natural blond. After doing the driver update, I walked myself through the steps in the original tutorial I tried. Then I added that edit with the new thing I tried and went to do some housework while I stewed. One of the 'dumb little things' I decided to try was muting and unmuting the sound - possibly with a system restart thrown in.
Well, I hadn't rechecked the volume settings after updating the driver. I popped open the mixer as the HDMI (ATI) volume opens by default instead of the analog one from intel. The update somehow muted it. F Me.
I suppose I just need some more direction. I worked through the troubleshooter here without any success, and I would appreciate some more help in getting my sound working.
From my searches I did manage to understand that this chipset can be a flakey jerk. Yet another reason for me to dislike Dell (XPS410 Desktop).
Some info first:
The sound isn't muted.
lspci -v | less
Code:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01db
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at dffdc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
Code:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
output website: (removed)
find /lib/modules/`uname -r` | grep snd gave me a wall of text.
I had read about the possibility of loading backports to make this chipset work, but I can't seem to find any for natty.
I read about a trick that worked for some: shutdown > unplug > pull battery. Well, this is a desktop, so I didn't go and pull the motherboard battery, but I did unplug the computer and surge protector for a while.
I really don't know what else to try.
Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT - I added ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa and grabbed linux-alsa-driver-modules-2.6.38-11-generic and rebooted. No change. (Source)
-----------------------
EDIT #2 -
I'm obviously a natural blond. After doing the driver update, I walked myself through the steps in the original tutorial I tried. Then I added that edit with the new thing I tried and went to do some housework while I stewed. One of the 'dumb little things' I decided to try was muting and unmuting the sound - possibly with a system restart thrown in.
Well, I hadn't rechecked the volume settings after updating the driver. I popped open the mixer as the HDMI (ATI) volume opens by default instead of the analog one from intel. The update somehow muted it. F Me.
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