Sound works but no device shown in the Sound settings
Solution 1
Ubuntu Unity 14.04 - 64bit, Intel mobo and i7 processor. After switching sound cards, I had [much better] sound but my sound output choices (System Settings : Sound) disappeared. I needed that to switch to S/PDIF output. After much monkeying around without success, including all of the above suggestions and more, nothing worked. For no particular reason, I logged into a 2nd user account, where I found the new output choices did indeed appear. I'd discovered that the settings were user-account specific. So, while I was there, I looked in .config and found a pulse directory. I copied that directory to the network, then switched back to the primary account. I found my .config/pulse directory (which had several additional files in it) and renamed it to pulse.orig in preparation to copy/paste the 2nd account's pulse directory from the network. But even as I switched directories to copy, then back to my .config directory, a new pulse directory had appeared, with the proper number of files in it. I checked System Settings / Sound, and my new sound devices were available for selection.
Long Story Short: Maybe find your [/home/userid]/.config/pulse directory and rename it (so a new default copy can appear).
Solution 2
Try these commands:
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
sudo alsa force-reload
Solution 3
In my case I had a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, so reinstalling pulseaudio
and alsa
would be pointless.
However, running sudo alsa force-reload
as in user91632's anwser did the trick.
Solution 4
Open the terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and install pulseaudio with this command:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indicator-sound
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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obeliksz over 1 year
Following a troubleshooting post I've found out that my driver is recognized in fact but is not listed at the sound settings and I think because of this my cinnamon sound applet will not appear. Altough my device does not appear in the Sound settings I get sounds (for example youtube and skype is working) but I can not increase/decrease the volume...
I tried enabling login with root, login-logout and then login with user, restarts, following other ideas saying to fix this but still no sound devices listed... still it works (browser, skype...), alsamixer works.
Any idea on how to fix this?
lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0205 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 Memory at f4700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 31731 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek 63371 1 snd_hda_intel 32621 0 snd_hda_codec 115893 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 80845 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_seq_midi 13132 0 snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 62064 10 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 14635 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
Also... in cinnamon the sound applet is not displayed in unity it displays as if it were muted.
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StayOnTarget almost 10 yearsA similar problem was posted here, which I was able to solve on my own laptop. The problem here isn't exactly the same, but thought it worth posting just in case it does respond to the same solution.
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obeliksz over 11 yearsgstreamer0.10-pulseaudio is already the newest version. indicator-sound is already the newest version. pulseaudio is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gir1.2-folks-0.6 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-gee-1.0
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obeliksz over 11 yearsdone, no errors reported. Still there are no device(s) listed in the Preferences - Sound. Anyway thanks kamil for your assistance.
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obeliksz over 11 yearschecked, still no sound devices.
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obeliksz over 11 yearsSkype works with HDA Intel, ALC888 Analog Default Device (default:CARD=Intel) --- stange that in system preferences no devices appear at all.
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loostro almost 10 yearsThis didin't help me.
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loostro almost 10 yearsRunning only the
sudo alsa force-reload
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isarandi almost 7 yearsThis solved it for me on 16.04 as well.
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cljk over 6 yearsDid it for me in 17.10 - perhaps
sudo alsa force-reload
is sufficient?!