Upgrade Alsa (1.0.22.1) on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
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Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 is coming by default with the version 1.0.20 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last version wich is 1.0.22.1. |
What is Alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) ?
According to Wikipedia, Alsa is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.
Installation :
To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
To avoid problems during the upgrade of Alsa-utils, we need to stop it with the following command :
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r` libncursesw5-dev
Then, we go in our personal folder and download alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils :
cd ~
rm -rf ~/alsa* ~/.pulse*
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.22.1.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.22.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.22.tar.bz2
After that, we create a new folder for the compilation and installation of the 3 files. Then, we move the 3 tar files that we just downloaded in this folder :
sudo rm -rf /usr/src/alsa
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
sudo cp ~/alsa* .
Unpack the 3 tar files :
sudo tar xjf alsa-driver*
sudo tar xjf alsa-lib*
sudo tar xjf alsa-utils*
We compile and install alsa-driver :
cd alsa-driver*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
We compile and install alsa-lib :
cd ../alsa-lib*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
We compile and install alsa-utils :
cd ../alsa-utils*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
If like me, you got this error during the last “sudo ./configure” :
checking form.h presence... yes
checking for form.h... yes
checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no
configure: error: panelw library not found
You will need to add those symbolics links (only if you got the error) and restart the installation from the last “sudo ./configure” :
sudo ln -s libpanelw.so.5 /usr/lib/libpanelw.so
sudo ln -s libformw.so.5 /usr/lib/libformw.so
sudo ln -s libmenuw.so.5 /usr/lib/libmenuw.so
sudo ln -s libncursesw.so.5 /lib/libncursesw.so
Then, we remove the 3 tar files in our personal folder that are not anymore necessary :
rm -f ~/alsa-driver*
rm -f ~/alsa-lib*
rm -f ~/alsa-utils*
Then, just restart your computer and your alsa version should be 1.0.22.1!
You can verify that you have now indeed have this version of alsa :
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1.
Compiled on Dec 29 2009 for kernel 2.6.31-16-generic (SMP).
Just to be sure everything is well configured, execute this command :
sudo alsaconf
and reboot again!
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April 3rd, 2010 at 9:55 am
FRANÇAIS
December 19th, 2009 at 12:18 am
after following your instructions:
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.22.tar.bz2 ; wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.22.tar.bz2 ; wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.22.tar.bz2
sudo rm -rf /usr/src/alsa
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa
sudo mv alsa-* /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa/
sudo tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.22.tar.bz2 ; sudo tar xjf alsa-lib-1.0.22.tar.bz2 ; sudo tar xjf alsa-utils-1.0.22.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.22/
sudo ./configure
sudo make
make install
sudo make install
cd ../alsa-lib-1.0.22/
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ../alsa-utils-1.0.22/
sudo ./configure
sudo make
still no sound and alsaconf doesn’t exist on my system… your instructions for installing alsa are the best i’ve seen but i think alsa is just busted and doesn’t work for my soundcard anymore.
December 19th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Just used your guide, and found it to be useful. However, i STILL get no sound with an Auzentech Forte. The card is listed in the compatible devices, the installation went smooth, but i still get 0 playback
December 19th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I compiled 1.0.22 version, and didn’t have sound at all (no hardware pressent). I have integrated Intel HDA ICH9 soundcard. So I’m back to 1.0.21.
December 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Thanks! Working for me!!!
I will link this blog to xbmc.org forum!
December 20th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Followed to the letter:
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.
Compiled on Dec 20 2009 for kernel 2.6.31-16-generic (SMP).
sudo alsaconf
sudo: alsaconf: command not found
ok…
December 20th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Ok I’ve done this twice and I still end up with this:
# Driver version: 1.0.21
# Library version: 1.0.22
# Utilities version: 1.0.22
So now my driver version doesn’t match the libs and utils. I still only have sound from the headphone jack and not the rear audio jack.
Any help?
December 21st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Is this version of alsa compatible with kernel 2.6.31-17-generic?
Or i must have kernel 2.6.31-16-generic?
December 21st, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Finally, it’s working!
When i rebooted after removing the tar files i didn’t see that sound controler in on and that is why alsaconf was not working. So i decided to stop alsa using sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop and then i run sudo alsaconf . I’ve checked sound level in sudo alsamixer and raised it to the max and now it’s working.
December 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Yoooohoooo!!! Finally I got the sound!!! Thank you so much!!!
December 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
but my headphones are not working without the front speakers on my ASUS K50IJ
December 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Tried your installation but get three errors:
1) root@XBMC-LIVE:/home/xbmc# apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package build-essential is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package build-essential has no installation candidate
2) root@XBMC-LIVE:/home/xbmc# apt-get -y install libncursesw5-dev
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package libncursesw5-dev
3) And after ./configure of the alsa-utils
checking for panel.h… no
configure: error: required curses helper header not found
How to fix this?
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 am
Woot! This took quite a while to download and configure, but worth it.
Thanks so much!
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
First of all, these are the best instructions anywhere for ubuntu ALSA install.
I’ve been working on installing ALSA 1.0.22 on Karmic Koala 9.10 on an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard, and I’ve run into a problem: when I open alsamixer it just says “This sound device does not have any controls.” Card: HDA Intel Chip: Analog Devices AD1989B. I’m pretty sure the drivers/lib/utils are installed correctly and that the headers are updated. Alsaconf runs fine and finishes with “use your favorite mixer to adjust volume”.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! IT FUCKING WORKSSSS!!! No WAYY!!! You are THE fuCking KiNG!!! I”ve been working for over 5 weeks trying to get this shit to work on my Alienware M17X!! NOTHING WORKS!! ExCept THIS!!!! A Thousand Blessings UPON YOUR HEAD!!!
December 25th, 2009 at 1:37 am
> when I open alsamixer it just says “This sound device does not have any controls.”
the same for me on an Asus K50 notebook.
Weird enough because compilation was right, after alsaconf and reboot it was all ok (sound perfect) so I happily turned off my pc and joined my family for christmas eve party.
When I woke up today I turned it on again just to find sound doesn’t work anymore:
alsamixer says “This sound device does not have any controls.” and aplay -l shows:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
while cat /proc/asound/cards shows:
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel – HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfe9f4000 irq 29
Anybody found something like that before?
(Merry Xmas)
December 25th, 2009 at 2:42 am
I have the same problem. I don’t have mixers and sound with it. I didn’t found a solution.
December 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I noticed I tried to reinstall pulseaudio after installing alsa 1.0.22.
So I tried to remove pulseaudio:
sudo apt-get remove –purge pulseaudio
then I deleted pulseaudio config files:
rm -rf ~/.pulse*
Then I reinstalled alsa and repeated alsaconf, after next reboot sound returned where it belongs
@Milos_sd: please try that and tell us if you can confirm this solution.
December 25th, 2009 at 7:16 am
@Francesco Conti: That doesn’t work. I’m back to 2.6.32.2 kernel and 1.0.21 alsa until they release next version of alsa that fixes this.
December 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I’m seeing this error after compiling & installing according to this howto:
http://pastebin.com/f3e3e83ce
Basically I can’t load ALSA.
December 26th, 2009 at 10:18 am
@Milos_SD: I tried to repeat my previous steps without good results so I finally returnet to mute status. Sound retruned to life after installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.31-17-generic package (after this post’s 1.0.22 alsa installation).
Maybe I’ll try tomorrow (don’t wanna loose my sounds again now) to confirm this is the correct way to follow
December 26th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Call me stupid, but I can’t get MP3 sound working with alsa and also the speakertest gives no sound although sound in XBMC works fine.
My Setup:
- Reciever Onkyo TX SR-606
- HTPC Asrock ION 330HT-BD
- Panasonic pz85 plasma
I’m using a HDMI-cable from my asrock ion 330-HT to my receiver Onkyo SR-605
XBMC:
- 9.11 Final
- Updated alsa to 1.0.22
- audio settings: digital, hdmi, hdmi and resample to stereo selected.
I’ve installed alsa 1.0.22, ran alsamixer saw everything is on (exept spdif) and volume is up. Tested XBMC and 5.1 sound works perfectly.
1) No menu sound:
=>to fix this create a file in your home dir called “.asoundrc” with the following content:
[code]
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hdmi"
}
}
[/code]
2) From a commandline entered the command: speaker-test -Dhdmi -c2 -r48000 -FS16_LE
[code]
root@XBMC-LIVE:~# speaker-test -Dhdmi -c2 -r48000 -FS16_LE
speaker-test 1.0.22
Playback device is hdmi
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
[/code]
This is because XBMC is running, so I killed it
[code]
#!/bin/bash
# Test to see if XBMC is running first
if ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -i xbmc.bin
then
# Try a clean kill
ps aux|grep -i xbmc|grep -v grep|grep -i xbmc.bin|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill
echo `date` "Killed XBMC! (soft)" >> /tmp/killXBMC.log
else
echo "XBMC already dead! (soft)"
exit
fi
# takes a second or two to die with the soft kill
sleep 2
# Test to see if it's still running
if ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -i xbmc.bin
then
# If it's still around, kill it -9
ps aux|grep -i xbmc|grep -v grep|grep -i xbmc.bin|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9
echo `date` "Killed XBMC! (hard)" >> /tmp/killXBMC.log
else
echo "XBMC already dead! (hard)"
exit
fi
[/code]
New test
[code]
root@XBMC-LIVE:~# speaker-test -Dhdmi -c2 -r48000 -FS16_LE
speaker-test 1.0.22
Playback device is hdmi
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 16384
Period size range from 32 to 8192
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 4096
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
[/code]
But no sound so I started X with command: startX, login on a new terminal (ctrl+alt+2) to execute speaker-test command but still no sound
[B]How can i Fix this so my speakertest will give any noise??[/B]
3) When I use the youtube script and play a movie I can see with the info button it has MP3 sound but I don’t here anything.
[B]Is this possible to fix for example by altering the asoundrc file?[/B]
December 29th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Did anyone tried 1.0.22.1 Alsa? Does it fix that issue with Intel HDA not having mixer controls?
December 29th, 2009 at 8:44 am
It’s not an Alsa issue….we have to blame Pulseaudio and its integration in Karmic….
I’ve written an howto about enabling mixer after alsa 1.0.22 installation…..but it’s in italian language….let me translate it, then I’ll post it here
December 29th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I just compiled 1.0.22.1 and my sound is working now on 2.6.33-rc2 kernel.
December 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Great
Here’s my howto about Ubuntu and Alsa 1.0.22 installation:
http://moosesoom.blogspot.com/2009/12/asus-k50ij-x5dij-audio-english.html
You can find some help about mixer controls looking for:
- Install: audio tray icon and sound control center (without pulesaudio)
- Install: audio tray icon hotkeys configuration for mute, volume up, volume down
- Install: sound control center (without pulesaudio)
December 29th, 2009 at 10:18 am
I didnt saw that there was an 1.0.22.1 version. I will change the how to today or tomorrow. Nice howto by the way Francesco!
Thanks
December 30th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Worked great for me, thanks. I now have sound on my Asus Xonar Essence ST.
January 1st, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I’m using Karmic Koala (u9.1) – a fresh install. I am actually using version 2.6.31-9-rt(buildd@palmer).
I did have sound before and after moving to the real time kernel. However, occasionally, with either audio streams or video/audio streams the sound just stopped. Since this occurred with different streams (sites) I judged it to be an internal problem. In perusing the documentation I came across your very well laid out and explicit directions.
Now I’m running version 1.022.1. Don’t know if this will solve my little glitch, but I enjoyed the experienced of updating to the latest version of alsa.
Thank you so much
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 am
YESSSSSSS!!!! It works!!!!!
Thanks!!!!
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Thanks for such good manual and description!
Now on my Ubuntu server I get sound.
Only one thing need to do more:
sudo chmod 666 /dev/snd/*
It’s for normal user account to listen music on server (as media server).
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:33 pm
@Andris: yours is the easy way, the correct way should be adding the users to audio group (in /etc/group)
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I was getting pretty frustrated looking for a fix to this problem, but never lost faith. Thank you for this. Everything works great now.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Ok greetings everybody and ubuntu masters specially (cuz i need of your wisdom!!) well this is my situation..: I have a gateway laptop model MX 7118 with dual boot (XP and Ubuntu) and i recently upgraded my Ubuntu from jaunty to karmic and decided to immediately upgrade ALSA too, followed this tutorial without problems everything went smooth, when i run sudo alsaconf tells me that everything is fine, driver are configured, ALSA version 1.0.22 and a great message that says ” have a lot of fun”… well thats what i want to do but right after rebooting tried VLC and the sound was working but in firefox everything was muted, then i tried on Opera the same thing happened no sound (youtube..etc) , went to the volume control and i was very disappointed to find out it looked exactly the same as before the ALSA upgrade , but because i’m a noob i think that could be normal..is it?…, (even thought when i upgraded my ALSA to 1.0.20 in jaunty i had a really awesome variety of mixers and independent bars like headphones volume and speakers volume), well the weird thing is that every time i restart my computer an log into karmic i don’t know what is going to happen with my sound, sometimes everything works even the browsers, and most of the times everything is muted and other times just programs like VLC player but no sound on my browsers, i’m going crazy here!!!
My question is: could this be an ALSA problem? or is Karmic the one that is giving me problems? because on Jaunty everything worked fine and i regret the upgrade on both karmic and ALSA.. Can somebody help me please? i’m really frustrated.. Thanks in advance!
ps. the software modem is already unistalled if that helps in something.. i read that sometimes that affects the proper function of the sound in karmic.
January 6th, 2010 at 5:53 am
@luis
Did you remove pulseaudio before upgrading alsa? I had many problems like yours….they disapeared as soon as I removed pulseaudio. Please let us know if this is a solution for you too.
January 6th, 2010 at 6:09 am
When trying to ./configure in the Alsa-Utils* install step I was getting an error for “libasound header version… …not present. ”
After 2 hours easy fix was..
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
Hopefully this will save someone else the time.
NLU
January 6th, 2010 at 6:18 am
Awesome post by the way very newb friendly and my sound works.. But I forgot all my sound was full blast so African Drums were about 9000 Db. All good though. THANKS!
NLU
January 7th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
HP Pavilion dv6
It works now! Thanks for a great (and thorough) step-by-step example. By the way, my ALSA was already shown to be 1.0.21 before starting this process, but I followed the instructions anyway and it started working for the first time.
January 14th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Great help and well explained for beginners like me!
I could even get the microphone working right on Skype (had almost given up before I found this).
January 15th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Hi all my Ubuntu family !! let me inform you that i solved my problem thanks to the help of Francesco Conti Thank you very much my brother!! my problem was with pulseaudio i removed it and everything works perfect now. The only bad thing is that i dont have an icon or mixer to control the volume
but it doest matter i just run alsamixer from the terminal and my controls appear, its more work and takes a little more time but .. anyways.. i know i can install a mixer and icon that doesnt give me problems but i have been lazy and i havent done to much reserch.. Well thats my story thanks to all of you one more time awesome support , God Bless!!
January 15th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
@luis
You can find this solution (the missing mixer and icon one) in my post http://moosesoom.blogspot.com/2009/12/asus-k50ij-x5dij-audio-english.html
January 16th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Ran the entire set of commands on Ubuntu 9.10 and ended with the following:
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
January 16th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
News:
Last Ubuntu update brings a new version of linux-backports-modules-karmic (2.6.31.18.31) with alsa 1.0.22.1
January 16th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Thank you for this excellent guide!
I experienced documented problems with no sound using Via VT1708 in Ubuntu 9.10. This upgrade finally solved my problem (after raising the master volume in alsamixer).
Lots of love to you for sharing!
January 17th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
This is getting frustrating. What´s the deal?
–2010-01-17 17:53:28– ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-
(try:11) => `alsa-driver-’
Connecting to http://ftp.alsa-project.org|212.20.107.51|:21… connected.
Logging in as anonymous …
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.
January 17th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
The ftp i working fine on my side. Maybe you should try again.
January 17th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Ive tried several times at this point.. I can download them directly through my browser, but now Im running into errors unpacking…..
How does it make sense that I wouldnt be able to contact the server via wget, but can via browser?
January 19th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Tried today on a freshly installed 32bit Karmic Koala on a ECS ??? motherboard
Alsamixer returns this error:
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid arguement
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20
Then I enabled backports repository and tried to upgrade system:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
That upgraded kernel from 2.6.31-17 to 2.6.31-18
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.31-18-generic
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1.
Compiled on Jan 9 2010 for kernel 2.6.31-18-generic (SMP).
Alsamixer runs ok now.
(tomorrow I’ll test sound quality….now i’m accessing the machine remotely)
January 19th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
@steezy:
> Ive tried several times at this point.. I can download them directly through my browser, but now Im
> running into errors unpacking…..
uhm…it seems like you have some memory issue….have you tried memtest on your PC?
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:40 am
Does anyone know why it’s impossible to use the s/pdif controls in alsamixer after upgrading to this version of Alsa?
I currently have no sound either and have been going crazy trying to figure out why all day.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Just HAD to write to you and to tell you that you are my savior!!! Ubuntu got everything right with my eeePC 1005ha except microphone and every time i update i run looking for your website to fix the microphone again!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
January 30th, 2010 at 8:46 am
People should stop posting “howto’s” like this without a big warning that it could bork your sound or that following the “howto” is at your own risk. Upgrading ALSA this way is not the way to go, it can break your audio stack and then I didn’t consider any upcoming ALSA related updates. Francesco Conti has got it right in #42, install linux-backports-modules-karmic which will update ALSA like it should for Ubuntu.
Or… The other way around, people should stop following any “howto” out there on the web that seems authoritative. Next thing you know is that they ditch Ubuntu because they can’t get sound to work and blame Ubuntu for it because they didn’t get it right in the first place. And that while it’s 100% sheer PEBKAC in most cases.
Sorry for the rant but upgrading ALSA as described above should be the very, very last resort. First check the Ubuntu Help and Wiki pages, then ask on the Ubuntu forum and check Launchpad if no bugs are filed concerning your issue.
Best,
Jeremy
January 30th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Thank you! Worked on my Gateway 4000 series laptop.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:49 am
thanks… It works
January 31st, 2010 at 11:44 am
Merci mille fois de la part d’un anglais dont le petit fils a décideé d’utiliser Ubuntu, mais qui tient à sa musique!
February 1st, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Thank you so much for this.
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Hi, excelent tutorial i must say.I’m new to linux (only 2 weeks) but with this for the first time i managed to install alsa corectly and finaly have a “alsaconf”, but now the problem is that alsaconf gives me this error:”no suported PnP or PCI card found” please i really need some help.The weird thing is that in alsamixer is seeing my card HDA Nvidia.Please i really need some help, since I’ve switched to ubuntu i never managed to get 5.1 sound.Thx
February 6th, 2010 at 9:33 am
GREAT!!
Thank you!
Worked perfect!
K
February 7th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
alsaconf does not find mycard nowusing the snd_ice1712 driver. Others with same problem? solution?
February 8th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Thank you. It worked for me on HP with 82801EB/ER on-board sound using snd-intel8x0. However, I have to run alsaconf after each reboot which is a pain.
Suggestions?
February 8th, 2010 at 5:53 am
Also, if I don’t run alsaconf, but run alsamixer instead and unmute , I get sound, but poor quality.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Solved – took out PulseAudio.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Hey man, just wanted to say this guide finally helped me fix my sound problem after a couple hours of trying. Big thanks!
February 17th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
tried this install, but it just dies with the lpanelw error. Creating the simlinks doesnt seem to help either, a reconfigure of the alsa-utils stilll gives me the same error, and of course, will not create a makefile unless I can figure it out.
any ideas ?
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:27 am
That was a bit of work but it worked! Thanks
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:54 pm
First of all, thank you for these good instructions.
Now, something doesn’t quite work for me. Every step in the installation went through without errors, but the driver version doesn’t change. The problem is basically the same Charlie reported in December:
> cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Compiled on Jan 28 2010 for kernel 2.6.31-19-generic (SMP).
And this is the same before and after installation. Any ideas anyone?
February 23rd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Ah, solved. Being a newbie, I hadn’t enables pre-release updates from synaptic. I installed the latest linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.31-20-generic -package from the repository and now it works fine.
February 26th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. It works. God bless u Sir
It works now !!! 10000xx Thx
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:58 am
i’ve tried and not working for me. my computer is Lenovo M58p. lspci information as follow
lspci -nn | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:3a6e] (rev 02)
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1.
Compiled on Mar 3 2010 for kernel 2.6.31-19-generic (SMP).
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:27 am
is your sound muted?
you can check with alsamixer
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Nope, output 100%
March 6th, 2010 at 3:56 am
It worked for me! Thank you so much for the info.
March 6th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Hi! I followed the instructions some time ago to update alsa manually, and everything went perfectly fine, until a few days ago. I don’t know if some other automatic update of something else broke it, but now my sound is severely distorted!!! To the point that’s totally unusable.
I’ve an ASUS M3N78-EM, and I’m using HDMI digital audio output connected to my TV.
Any hints about what could it be or what I could I try to fix this? I’ve found nothing so far…
March 7th, 2010 at 3:29 am
Hey,
thank you so much for showing me how to do this…I can get sound now. I’m new to Ubuntu, and I love it. I’m slowly moving away from Windows because Linux is so much smoother; and I believe in everything that the Linux community stands for. Thank you so much, again.
I was wondering, do you know of any good anti-virus software that I can run on this platform. I tried AVG but it doesn’t install.
Much appreciated.
jerrymadd
March 9th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
For everybody who updates alsa and still has problems with sound. If you go to the alsa website and click SoundCards on the left side of the page, it will bring up a list of different brands of sound cards. Click on your brand, and a list of sound card models for your brand will come up. Click on your model and it may provide additional steps you need to perform to get your specific sound card working. The walkthroughs on the alsa site are about as easily explained and detailed as the walkthrough on this blog.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I have followed all the steps…. I have sound but the driver is still using 1.0.20 for some reasons…..
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
what else can i do?
March 16th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Hey everyone,
On March 17, I installed updates and for some reason I lost my sound. Ubuntu was no longer able to read my sound cards. I uninstalled Ubuntu and reinstalled it, following the above directions, just like the first time I did it; and of course, it works great. However, I do I stop this from happening again in the future.
Thanks,
jerrymadd
March 20th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Worked for me. Thanks!
March 20th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
@ sirius.
I had the same issue. Go here
http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg25132.html
March 20th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
hai…i upgraded alsa 1.0.22 on compaq610 but, left speaker not work….wat then next solution….help me….
March 22nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
It maybe even EASIER (for HDA-INTEL):
1.) EDIT:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
2.) AND ADD END OF FILE:
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
3.) SAVE
4.) RESTART
5.) MAKE LOUDER
6.) MAYBE THATS IT!
In my case it worked very fine!
It should work also for other sound cards, for example emachines/eelaptop:
ADD “options snd-hda-intel model=acer”
Found here (german):
http://blog.fitzer.org/linux/ubuntu-9-10-kein-sound-mehr/comment-page-1/#comment-334
March 25th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Thank you so much. This solved the problem.
March 29th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Works great on my Compaq cq61. Thanks for the step by step
April 1st, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Yep works like a charm!!
April 5th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Worked great for me! Thanks Stephane!
April 14th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
XLNT – one of the best guides ever.
May 12th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
After following the above steps, there was no sound. So I thought of upgrading to 1.0.23.
Download http://mirror.ipgn.com.au/drivers/sound/realtek/LinuxPkg-5.15rc1.tar.bz2
Extract, go into the folder “realtek-linux-audiopack-5.15″, there you can find “install” file.
Open the terminal, traverse to the “realtek-linux-audiopack-5.15″ directory and just give this command
sudo sh install
thats it! restart!
May 26th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Mate!
Saved my life
)
For her birthday I decided to update my daughter’s machine to 9.10 (10.04 is too early for me to become involved
) and add some new hardware…then found I had no sound!!
If she’d've known this, I’d be a dead man – especially as she is having her friends around for a sleep over and they’ll be on the machines in the play room.
So, scratch head, bit lip, take medication to settle nerves and stomach and start browsing – FINALLY – I found you post.
Brilliant. Thank you very much. If anyone asks what you do for a hobby you should list:
Save marriages, keep children happy on their birthday and save lives
)