No sound in EasyOS Dunfell (Fixed itself)

[nevarmaor]

Ok, as I mentioned in the EasyOS 3.0 thread I have no sound from my internal speakers in 3.0.

As it turns out, I was wrong in thinking this was a change from 2.9. I had backed up the 2.9 hd setup I upgraded to 3.0 so I booted into that and discovered the same issue. I guess I hadn't run Dunfell without having my HDMI TV hooked up. I keep switching between OS'es cepending on what I am doing.

I know that sound works fine in EasyOS Buster, and in Fatdog, and in FossaPup. With them I can switch between internal PCH and HDMI sound on the fly.

I had an old download of EasyOS Dunfel 2.6.1 so I dd'ed that to a usb and tested it. Same issue there too.

Computer is a Toshiba Satellite P55W. Quad core i5-5200 CPU. It has an Intel ALC233 audio chip. 8Gb RAM. I ran the multi sound card wizard, chose card 1: PCH, ran Test Sound, and got nothing through either internal speakers or headphones. Repeated this with HDMI plugged in and sound comes out of the HDMI TV, even with default set to PCH. This is apparently true of all versions of Dunfel.

The only difference I can see between Dunfel and Buster from the report is the ALSA driver version. Dunfel uses 5.10.11, Buster uses 5.4.128. FossaPup uses 5.4.53. I imagine this is related to the linux kernel version. Not sure if this is an EasyOS issue or a linux kernel issue. A web search just muddled the issue for me.

I am no programmer and my in-depth knowledge of computers is about 20 years out-of-date. I have saved reports from dmesg, lspci, lsmod, if they would help.

[FeodorF]

@nevarmaor
Hi nevarmaor,

looking at /etc/asound.conf is an entry like: #SND_HW_PROFILE=..... present, while running EasyOS Dunfell? If the answere is 'no', is there an entry in EasyOS Buster?

[nevarmaor]

Hi @FeodorF, thanks for replying.

In EasyOS Buster asound.conf

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 1
#SND_HW_PROFILE='1+pci+8086:9ca0'

In EasyOS Dunfell asound.conf

defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 3
defaults.ctl.card 0
#SND_HW_PROFILE='0+pci+8086:160c'

In the multiple sound card wizard the pcm card is 1, device 0. HDMI is card 0, device3. I am going to try changing the Dunfel default settings to match Buster and see what happens.

[nevarmaor]

So, I gather those defaults are changed by the multiple sound card wizard because after playing around with it they were back to card 0, device 3.

But, for whatever reason, I now get sound out of the internal speakers when I set default to PCH. So, whatever happened, it fixed the problem .

I hope it stays fixed.

[nevarmaor]

I upgraded from 3.1.11 to 3.1.13 and had to go through this again to get sound working properly. This time I could not get anything BUT my internal speakers to work until manually editing asound.conf.

Next time I upgrade I will change defaults to the internal speakers and disconnect from HDMI and see if that makes things smoother.