Re: Intel soundcard does not work

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 01/15/2014 12:05 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:

2014/1/12 Martin <twpim-www@yahoo.com.au>

Hello,
I have new computer but soundcard does not work with Debian/Squeeze.
Maybe I need to tweak some configuration files or I need new driver?
It is integrated on motherboard Intel soundcard.
Can anybody give me an advice?

Bellow are output from some command that I tought would be needed.
BTW soudcard works under Windows.

If anybody is wondering why I use Squeeze instead of something more
recent it is because I do have complete set of DVD for Squeeze but do
not have internet connection capable for online installation of OS or
even easy acces to set of DVD for newer system.

boza@spongia:~/tmp$ lspci -n
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 05)

boza@spongia:~/tmp$ lspci -v
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
                                                             ]

run `aplay -l` and look at the card0 infos

eg. I have

$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1984 Analog [AD1984 Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

then `cd /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver`

check in HD-Audio-Models.txt (or the gzipped related) the model which fits to your card and add it in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf like this

options snd-hda-intel model=YOUR_MODEL

reboot

/r

Check your mixer(s) and make sure that the sound is not muted, and if it's not muted, then make sure that it's turned up. You probably have at least two
mixers in the system, or maybe one and a volume control--any of these things turned down all the way or off can give you that problem. Look for alsamxr,
anything with pulse-audio, maybe kmix (don't know for your system)--you get the idea.
--doug