This is my first Linux install ever, trying it out over windows but I have an issue where my laptop’s speakers don’t make any sound. If I plug in headphones, they work, but never speakers. I’ve updated kernels, and intalled sof-firmware through the add/remove software application to no avail. Any help would be appreciated!
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## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out. Use either ; or # for
## commenting.
; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; enable-memfd = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11
; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5
; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
; resample-method = speex-float-1
; avoid-resampling = false
; enable-remixing = yes
; remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes
; remixing-produce-lfe = no
; remixing-consume-lfe = no
; lfe-crossover-freq = 0
; flat-volumes = no
; rescue-streams = yes
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 200000
; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25
; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
I do not want to interfere!
And I cannot and did not test it myself.
This is just a possibility - it may be helpful:
I think I have seen threads where it was suggested to use the alternate driver - the one that is available, but not loaded by default.
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
For this to work, the driver that is used now would need to be blacklisted - I think …
(a file in /etc/modprobe.d ending with the .conf suffix
containing: blacklist snd_hda_intel
)
Firmware might also be needed, as @anon89812132 mentioned.
But there are two soundcards here and I do not know which one is being used and making trouble.
Great news, I have audio! But it isn’t 100%. After following the assistance, I am at the point where I have crisp, clear audio. Thank you!
The trouble is that, I found by increasing the “headphone” option in alsamixer, that that increased the audio output (yes, for speakers too!). Except that it seems to reset every time I restart, so I need to go back into alsamixer and set it to 100 again. So I am just curious if there is a way to just leave that set at 100.
