How to fix no sound in Ubuntu 12.04 with MATE desktop environment?
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My audio worked after using the following command:
sudo apt-get autoremove pulseaudio
After updating and rebooting the computer the audio worked. Gayan from Hectic Geek – Application Software & OS Reviews posted an article in the following How to Remove PulseAudio & use ALSA in Ubuntu Linux? Gayan explains in detail the nature of the problem. Gayan explains that Pulseaudio manages the audio of the software to Alsa and Alsa manages the audio to the hardware. Pulseaudio will have mishandling problems when passing the audio data to Alsa once in a blue moon. Simply removing Pulseaudio and allowing Alsamixer to take over removed all audio mishandlings.
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After the most recent update since 3/2/2014 , I cannot listen to music on my ubuntu 12.04 desktop or any other sound from an application. I was able to perform the following test from the command line
~$ speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -l1 -twav speaker-test 1.0.25 Playback device is plug:surround51 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels WAV file(s) Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer size range from 64 to 5440 Period size range from 32 to 2720 Using max buffer size 5440 Periods = 4 was set period_size = 1088 was set buffer_size = 5440 0 - Front Left 4 - Center 1 - Front Right 3 - Rear Right 2 - Rear Left 5 - LFE Time per period = 8.545722I could hear "front left" from the audio test, but no other sound. Any suggestions?
Below is the audio device information.
~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 audio 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2ac8] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel -- 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks/Whistler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6000 Series] [1002:aa90] Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:aa90] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intelBelow is the AlasMixer information
┌───────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.0.25 ──────────────────────────────┐ │ Card: HDA ATI SB F1: Help │ │ Chip: IDT 92HD89E2 F2: System information │ │ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │ │ Item: Master [dB gain: 0.00] Esc: Exit │ │ │ │ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ ├──┤ Mic In ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ │ │ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │ │ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │ │ 100 100<>100 100<>100 100<>100 100<>100 100 100 │ │ < Master >Headphon PCM Front Front Mi Surround Center LFE │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘I am able to play web videos without crashing or freezing, but no audio can be heard from any web application. I can hear the bongo drums on start up.
I downloaded the following mp3s file and saved into my music folder. I used the following terminal command below to play the mp3 file.
~/Music$ xmms2 play 02\ -\ Frozen.mp3 ~/Music$I was unable to hear any audio from xmms2 playing Frozen.mp3.
I opened VLC from the terminal and played the mp3 file from the GUI. Below is the terminal feedback from VLC while playing the mp3 file.
~$ vlc VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower (revision 2.0.8a-0-g68cf50b) [0x2124108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. Got bus address: "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-Wjn42ezXF0,guid=badc6b7aa96a1558a4e1655900000de8" Connected to accessibility bus at: "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-Wjn42ezXF0,guid=badc6b7aa96a1558a4e1655900000de8" Registered DEC: true "sni-qt/6878" WARN 14:58:38.756 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE Registered event listener change listener: true QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "6" obj: QMenu(0x7feec4099610) "" QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "7" obj: QMenu(0x7feec4099610) "" QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QObject(0x0) " invalid interface!" QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QSidebar(0x7feec41ff800, name = "sidebar") "sidebar" FIXME: handle dialog start. QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QObject(0x0) " invalid interface!" QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QListView(0x7feec4205500, name = "listView") "listView" QSpiAccessible::accessibleEvent not handled: "8008" obj: QObject(0x0) " invalid interface!" FIXME: handle dialog end.I did not hear any sound from VLC.
Below is the analog output file.
~$ analog output analog: analog version 6.0/Unix analog: Warning D: Turning all pie charts off because OUTFILE is stdout and CHARTDIR is unset (For help on all errors and warnings, see /usr/share/doc/analog/docs/errors.html) analog: Warning F: Failed to open logfile output: ignoring it analog: Warning R: Turning off empty time reports analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Request Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty File Type Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Directory Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Domain Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Organisation Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Search Word Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Operating System Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty File Size Report analog: Warning R: Turning off empty Status Code Report <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="#internalStyle" type="text/css"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Web Server Statistics for Debian Linux System</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> <meta name="generator" content="analog 6.0/Unix" /> <style type="text/css" id="internalStyle"> h2 { background-color: #A0C0F0; width: 98%; padding: 3px 6px; } table { text-align: right; margin-left: 30px; background-color: #D0E0F0; border-collapse: collapse; } th { border-bottom: 1px solid #404050; border-right: 1px dotted #606070; border-top: none; border-left: none; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #A0C0F0; } td { padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px; border-right: 1px dotted #606070; border-left: none; border-bottom: none; border-top:none; } td.x { font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; } .xl { text-align: left; border-right: none; } .xr { text-align: right; border-right: none; } .bar { text-align: left; border-right: none; } tr.sub {background-color: #C0C0FF; font-style: italic; } .repdesc { font-style: italic; } .repspan { font-style: italic; } .goto { font-size: small; } .gensumtitle { font-weight: bold; } .gototitle { font-weight: bold; } .runtimetitle { font-weight: bold; } img { border-style: none; } a:link { color: blue; text-decoration: none; } a:visited { color: purple; text-decoration: none; } a:link:hover { text-decoration: underline; } a:visited:hover { text-decoration: underline; } a:link:active { color: red; text-decoration: underline; } a:visited:active { color: red; text-decoration: underline; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="header"><h1><a name="Top" id="Top" href="http://www.analog.cx/"><img src="/analog/analogo.png" alt="" /></a> Web Server Statistics for <a href="/">Debian Linux System</a></h1> <p class="analysisspan">Program started at Sun-02-Mar-2014 17:10.</p> </div> <div class="gensum"><h2><a name="gensum" id="gensum">General Summary</a></h2> <p class="goto">(<span class="gototitle">Go To</span>: <a href="#Top">Top</a> | General Summary)</p> <p class="repdesc">This report contains overall statistics.</p> <p class="gensumlines"> <span class="gensumtitle">Successful requests:</span> 0 </p> </div><div class="footer"><p class="credit">This analysis was produced by <a href="http://www.analog.cx/">analog 6.0</a>. <br /><span class="runtimetitle">Running time:</span> Less than 1 second. </p> <p class="goto">(<span class="gototitle">Go To</span>: <a href="#Top">Top</a> | <a href="#gensum">General Summary</a>)</p> </div> </body> </html>Below is the echo get current desktop command issued twice.
~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP ~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP ~$Below is the GDM session command.
~$ echo $GDMSESSION mate ~$Below is the installation attempt of the ubuntu desktop environment.
~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libgconf-2-4:i386 libatk1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 gir1.2-ubuntuoneui-3.0 libnss3:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libncurses5-dev octave-common libcairo2:i386 libreadline6-dev libdatrie1:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libtinfo-dev libpixman-1-0:i386 libcurl3:i386 libxft2:i386 liboctave1 libthai0:i386 libnspr4:i386 libxss1:i386 libjasper1:i386 libubuntuoneui-3.0-1 libxtst6:i386 libhdf5-serial-dev thunderbird-globalmenu libpango1.0-0:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 librtmp0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libreadline-dev Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ~$Attempted to play music file using Rhythmbox and received the following error: "Couldn't start playback Problem occurred without error being set. This is a bug in Rhythmbox or GStreamer."
Below is the F6 command for selecting the generic audio output from alsamixer. The alsamixer terminal posted above is for the default which appears to be the same as the one named HDA ATI SB. There were three options to choose from alsamixer F6 command: "- (default)" , "0 HDA ATI SB" , or "1 HD-Audio Generic", none of which produced any sound from the music files.
┌───────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.0.25 ──────────────────────────────┐ │ Card: HD-Audio Generic F1: Help │ │ Chip: ATI R6xx HDMI F2: System information │ │ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │ │ Item: S/PDIF Esc: Exit │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌──┐ │ │ │OO│ │ │ └──┘ │ │ < S/PDIF > │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘The image below is the closest menu I can find to sound settings.
The image below is the selected options tab of sound settings with other menus opened to provide additional information.
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JoKeR about 10 yearsalso add the output to your question:lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 audioalso run in terminal:alsamixerand look if it's not muted? can you actually start a song in music player or it's just freeze or crash? -
JoKeR about 10 yearsrun
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras -
JoKeR about 10 yearsok and did you try to play mp3 now?
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JoKeR about 10 yearstype in terminal
gnome-volume-controland see if you get anything -
JoKeR about 10 yearsthe thing is MATE-volume-control what you are using with your environment is not in Ubuntu or Debian repos, I dunno which way you installed Ubuntu obviously not from the official source but follow this thread on Archlinux scroll the page down.
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JoKeR about 10 yearsI'm not familiar with MATE but there's a lot of info on google with similar problems like yours
no sound in mate volumejust enter in google search and if your friend recommended it to you he must know or be experienced of what he's recommending and probably can you give a hint to work this out. The official website download is here -
linuxfreebird about 10 years@JohnnyD. I used the following command sudo apt-get autoremove pulseaudio and the audio worked.
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JoKeR about 10 yearsnice, good for you could get out of this issue.
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linuxfreebird about 10 yearsDoes my answer make sense?
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JoKeR about 10 yearsyes sometimes there's a conflict between software/packages and if it solves your issue then great.
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JoKeR about 10 yearsthank you I like it indeed, but it didn't help me it helped you :) I cannot upvote it because I don't know if it will work for me 100% usually it takes one to be in your situation that you was and if your workout does a trick of course it deserves an upvote then. You'll get the upvotes from the users if your workout will work for them or me and that how it works :-)
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