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[SOLVED] Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
[SOLVED] Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
Hi,
I'll show you my sound hardware configuration:
The card is really an ALC888 but I can't get it to work in Debian 10 (Buster). In Debian 9 it worked well. Since the dist-upgrade the configuration has been lost
root@hp6704:~# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Pulseaudio doesn't seem to detect it, but alsamixer does.
I've tried everything, and there's no way to get the sound back.
What can I do?
Thank you
I'll show you my sound hardware configuration:
The card is really an ALC888 but I can't get it to work in Debian 10 (Buster). In Debian 9 it worked well. Since the dist-upgrade the configuration has been lost
root@hp6704:~# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Pulseaudio doesn't seem to detect it, but alsamixer does.
I've tried everything, and there's no way to get the sound back.
What can I do?
Thank you
Last edited by chpaisal on 2019-07-12 05:56, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
Someone just yesterday was having audio issues with a system they'd upgraded to Buster from Stretch. Couple thoughts about it. Check in your users /home/.config/ a directory named pulse in there, copy that somewhere else ie: somewhere else, name it pulse.bak or whatever. Then try rebooting, seen people mention sometimes these app config directories and files could be automatically recreated if you delete them and there isn't one when you bootup. Don't know if that's the case with Debian Buster though.
Anyway, if still not working after reboot could either remove (or purge) pulseaudio, perhaps alsa-base or alsa or whichever are relevant to your system/OS and then reinstall them or just outright try reinstalling them with ... or similar.
Of course watch the terminal output while undergoing any of the above, what's going to be removed ? Etc.
Finally could resort to what that user ended up doing to restore his sound-audio. He installed Buster completely fresh and sound starting working. Am assuming it was likely a config file conflict as noted above but yeah it did turn out apparently being an improperly done migration from Stretch to Buster that messed up the guys sound. Could get into how you actually performed the dist-upgrade too(not doing that) but unless something has majorly changed weird borkage like this is clearly why fresh installs between releases is the recommended method.
Anyway, if still not working after reboot could either remove (or purge) pulseaudio, perhaps alsa-base or alsa or whichever are relevant to your system/OS and then reinstall them or just outright try reinstalling them with ... or similar.
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sudo apt-get install --reinstall pulseaudio
Finally could resort to what that user ended up doing to restore his sound-audio. He installed Buster completely fresh and sound starting working. Am assuming it was likely a config file conflict as noted above but yeah it did turn out apparently being an improperly done migration from Stretch to Buster that messed up the guys sound. Could get into how you actually performed the dist-upgrade too(not doing that) but unless something has majorly changed weird borkage like this is clearly why fresh installs between releases is the recommended method.
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Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
Not works :
And not works
the only device seems to be the HDMI ports given by the Nvidia graphics card, but I can't hear the audio.
On the other hand, alsamixer detects the motherboard integrated card (ALC888).
How is it possible that pulseaudio does not see a device that if it sees alsamixer? pavucontrol shows all those HDMI devices, but nothing of the analogical output.
By the way, has the alsa-base package disappeared in buster?
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$ rm -r ~/.config/pulse /tmp/pulse-*
$ pulseaudio --kill
$ pulseaudio --start
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# apt-get install --reinstall pulseaudio
the only device seems to be the HDMI ports given by the Nvidia graphics card, but I can't hear the audio.
On the other hand, alsamixer detects the motherboard integrated card (ALC888).
How is it possible that pulseaudio does not see a device that if it sees alsamixer? pavucontrol shows all those HDMI devices, but nothing of the analogical output.
By the way, has the alsa-base package disappeared in buster?
Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
Thanks for the link. I'll try it.
Anyway the pulseaudio automatisms seem to be fine, but when things don't work as they should, it becomes a real nightmare to set up the sound.
It is also curious to see that archlinux has it better documented than debian.
Anyway the pulseaudio automatisms seem to be fine, but when things don't work as they should, it becomes a real nightmare to set up the sound.
It is also curious to see that archlinux has it better documented than debian.
Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
The result is and the problem persists
The pavucontrol shows many Digital Stereo HDMI 2 Output.
As root:
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$ fuser -v /dev/dsp
$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: carles 1983 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC1D7p: carles 1983 F...m pulseaudio
The pavucontrol shows many Digital Stereo HDMI 2 Output.
As root:
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# fuser -v /dev/snd/*
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: root 856 f.... alsactl
timidity 1115 F.... timidity
/dev/snd/controlC1: carles 1983 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: timidity 1115 F...m timidity
/dev/snd/seq: timidity 1115 F.... timidity
/dev/snd/timer: timidity 1115 f.... timidity
Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH You're crack.
I run this:
# apt purge timidity
after
# alsaximer
OO To enable alsa sound card
Rerun the pavucontrol and YEEEESSS. I can see the "Audio Intern Estereo Analogic"
SOLVED !!!!!! Thanks for all.
I owe you a beer if you ever stop by Barcelona.
I run this:
# apt purge timidity
after
# alsaximer
OO To enable alsa sound card
Rerun the pavucontrol and YEEEESSS. I can see the "Audio Intern Estereo Analogic"
SOLVED !!!!!! Thanks for all.
I owe you a beer if you ever stop by Barcelona.
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Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
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Re: Sound Card ALC888 not detected Debian Buster
Thank you!
I had this issue when I upgraded.
I had this issue when I upgraded.
chpaisal wrote:YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH You're crack.
I run this:
# apt purge timidity
after
# alsaximer
OO To enable alsa sound card
Rerun the pavucontrol and YEEEESSS. I can see the "Audio Intern Estereo Analogic"
SOLVED !!!!!! Thanks for all.
I owe you a beer if you ever stop by Barcelona.