From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sudip Mukherjee Subject: Re: Analog sound (ALC262) lost on linux (any distro and kernel) on a dual boot system Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:48:36 +0530 Message-ID: <20141023161836.GA6590@sudip-PC> References: <1414065684.5448ee14f02dd@webmail.uoi.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com (mail-pd0-f171.google.com [209.85.192.171]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F0A260455 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:18:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pd0-f171.google.com with SMTP id r10so558485pdi.16 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1414065684.5448ee14f02dd@webmail.uoi.gr> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Ploumistos Alexandros Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 03:01:24PM +0300, Ploumistos Alexandros wrote: > Hello, > > A while back I had installed Ubuntu on a friend's laptop -a Sony Vaio VGN-FW21M- > alongside windows Vista. Everything worked fine for a few years, until at some > point last year linux went mute, while in windows both the analog and the > digital outputs continued working. She couldn't remember doing something "out > of the ordinary", but she was sure it was not after an update. Several months > later, she upgraded to windows 7 but that didn't change anything. When I got my > hands on the laptop, I checked for muted controls and other usual suspects, > deprecated quirks (there were none) and all inputs and outputs of the system. > HDMI audio works fine and so does the internal mic. Speakers, headphones and > the external mic input do not work, even though pulse audio volume meter acts > as if there were actually sounds being played. I followed all of Ubuntu's > troubleshooting procedures, I removed and reinstalled alsa and pulse, I purged > all configuration files, I created a new user and I even installed the latest > alsa-packages from the "ALSA daily build snapshots" repository and nothing > worked. I also tried booting into windows, setting all volume levels to the max > and disabled power saving on all sound and multimedia devices. Next, I tried > retasking the jacks one by one to no avail. > > I remembered that I had performed the installation with an Ubuntu 11.10 live CD, > so I booted the computer off of that, but this time I got no sound. I tried with > all the live CDs of a multitude of distros I had lying around, with kernels > ranging from 2.6.35 to 3.16.6 and none of them worked, so I figured the issue > must have something to do with windows. Is it possible that windows somehow > started locking the audio chip on shutdown? If that is the case, can it be > deduced from the logs and more importantly, can it be fixed? for my dayjob , i use a computer which is dualboot with windows and ubuntu , which is almost always having linux-next. and audio works for both my os. > > I am attaching the output of alsa-info and lspci as well as kernel logs. i think you forgot to attach the files. thanks sudip > > Thank you for your time. > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel