[alsa-devel] No sound on Asus EeePC 1215b (hda-intel)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:15:57 +0300,
Touko Korpela wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:18:39AM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> > On 09/01/2011 12:08 AM, Touko Korpela wrote:
> > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:42:02PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > >>Touko Korpela wrote:
> > >>>>No sound is heard (but mixer is not muted).
> > >>>>Shouldn't mixer have more channels to adjust?
> > >>>
> > >>>00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1314
> > >>>00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
> > >>
> > >>Your default sound device is the device that happened to be detected
> > >>first, which is your GPU's HDMI output.
> > >>
> > >>Tell whatever sound configuration tool is used in your distribution to
> > >>use the other sound device.
> > >
> > >Shouldn't that be hidden when HDMI cable is not plugged (like now)?
> > 
> > I'm working on hiding exactly that at the UI level (gnome/pulseaudio
> > level rather than ALSA), but that is a long-term goal and not all
> > pieces are into place yet.
> > 
> > >Does this kind of system work for someone?
> > 
> > A very similar machine, Asus 1215P [1], was enabled by the team I'm
> > involved with, so yes, it definitely works for someone, and it would
> > surprise me if it does not work out of the box from an Ubuntu 11.10
> > Beta Live-CD even though the link says "pre-install only".
> > 
> > You could try this terminal command:
> > 
> > speaker-test -D plughw:SB -c 2 -t sine
> > 
> > And see if that outputs sound (try both headphones and internal speakers).
> 
> I tested that command and it works. Now just have to figure out the right
> way to select default sound output device (on Debian). Ideally it should
> work automatically.

Try to put the following in ~/.asoundrc:

	defaults.pcm.card 1
	defaults.ctl.card 1


Takashi