Re: No sound at boot

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 05/24/2015 09:39 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/24/2015 12:58 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 May 2015 23:29:27 -0500
>> Mark Allums <mark@allums.top> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for
>>> Linux, I know).  I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update
>>> (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot.  Of
>>> course, the first thing I tried was
>>>
>>>
>>> root@persephone:~# modprobe snd-hda-intel
>>>
>>>
>>> and that got me sound again.  However, I have to run it manually
>>> after every boot.  What steps do I need to take to get it to load at
>>> boot again?  Re-Installing ALSA does nothing, of course, and I guess
>>> I have no Google skills, because all I can find with Google is advice
>>> to reinstall ALSA.
>> Take a look in /etc/modules-load.d - you can add a file called, say,
>> "sound.conf" there with the contents:
>>
>> snd-hda-intel
>>
>> That should load that module on boot. I haven't tested it, as I've
>> never had the need to force a module to load in recent years, but it
>> should work.
>>
>> Petter
>>
> 
> Didn't work.  Nor did adding snd-hda-intel line to /etc/modules.
> 
> Any more suggestions?  I'm running Jessie. Have been since Jessie was
> testing, about three months after the release of Wheezy.  So it's seen a
> lot of changes, the biggest of which was the transition from sysvinit to
> systemd. I should have fixed it a lot sooner, but as long as I could fix
> it by running modprobe, I wasn't in a big hurry.  Anyway, if this had
> worked, it feels like a workaround, and isn't really getting to the
> actual cause of the problem.  So, any more suggestions are welcome.
> 

You can try to run alsactl init as root:
# alsactl init

HTH

Kind regards
Georgi