[Solved] No Sound (Centaurus)

Dai_trying · 2019-02-13 13:49

I have recently re-installed Centaurus and everything seemed to go well until I tried watching a YouTube video and noticed there was no sound, I unplugged my headphones and no sound through speakers either. I recall having to install pavucontol to get sound to work before (might have been Scorpion but not sure) which I did with the same results. I adjusted everything to make sure that audio should be playing and the visual display in pavucontrol showed that audio was in fact playing and nothing was muted. I went to the Q4OS documentation and followed the advise there but this produced no errors but still no sound.

After this frustration I ran alsamixer in a terminal and selected to show all options and noticed that PCM volume was set to 0, I adjusted this and everything now works fine, just thought I would post in case anyone else has this same problem.

q4osteam · 2019-02-13 14:31

It looks like a hardware dependent issue, at a first sight, as we are not able to reproduce it in Virtualbox. Nonetheless we will continue trying to reproduce and investigate that. Anyone else noticed similar issue ?

Dai_trying · 2019-02-13 14:48

No problem, Here is the output of inxi -F to verify the hardware.

System:    Host: Centaurus Kernel: 4.19.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Trinity R14.0.6 Distro: Q4OS 3.5.2-n1 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 15-3552 v: 4.4.0 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0T14MC v: A00 serial: <root required> UEFI: Dell v: 4.4.0 date: 03/06/2018 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 14.9 Wh condition: 14.9/41.4 Wh (36%) 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Pentium N3700 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           Speed: 1023 MHz min/max: 480/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 480 2: 929 3: 1910 4: 1939 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 405 (Braswell) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.2 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series High Definition Audio 
           driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-2-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
           IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: 94:53:30:3d:09:15 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 67.61 GiB (7.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-00JC3T0 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 48.97 GiB used: 3.42 GiB (7.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: 43.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 139 Uptime: 1h 05m Memory: 3.77 GiB used: 570.0 MiB (14.8%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

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#1 2019-02-13 13:49

[Solved] No Sound (Centaurus)

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Re: [Solved] No Sound (Centaurus)

#3 2019-02-13 14:48

Re: [Solved] No Sound (Centaurus)

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