Thanks Raymond for your help so far. I have read the other bug and there are similarities. However I do not see the method for how I can fix this. Could you advise please?
I tried just copying the missing codec to my proc directory but I cannot get around the permissions Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266047 Title: no sound from laptop Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have a dell inspiron 1525 running Ubuntu 13.10. I have no sound coming from either the speakers or headphone jack, no sound indicator in the top right, and play back of spotify, youtube etc is not working. I have a printout of the codecs and an extract for my audio from the lspci command :/proc/asound/card0$ cat codec#0 Codec: Conexant ID 2c06 Address: 0 MFG Function Id: 0x2 (unsol 1) Vendor Id: 0x14f12c06 Subsystem Id: 0x14f1000f Revision Id: 0x100000 Modem Function Group: 0x2 ================================== :/proc/asound/card0$ cat codec#1 Codec: Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI Address: 1 AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 0) Vendor Id: 0x10951392 Subsystem Id: 0x10280242 Revision Id: 0x100000 No Modem Function Group found Default PCM: rates [0x0]: bits [0x0]: formats [0x0]: Default Amp-In caps: N/A Default Amp-Out caps: N/A State of AFG node 0x01: Power states: D0 D3 Power: setting=D0, actual=D0 GPIO: io=0, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=0, wake=0 Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x6211: 8-Channels Digital Converter: stream=8, channel=0 Digital: Enabled GenLevel Digital category: 0x2 IEC Coding Type: 0x0 PCM: rates [0x7f0]: 32000 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000 bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32 formats [0x5]: PCM AC3 Node 0x03 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40738d: 8-Channels Digital Amp-Out CP Control: name="HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Jack", index=0, device=0 Control: name="IEC958 Playback Con Mask", index=0, device=0 Control: name="IEC958 Playback Pro Mask", index=0, device=0 Control: name="IEC958 Playback Default", index=0, device=0 Control: name="IEC958 Playback Switch", index=0, device=0 Control: name="ELD", index=0, device=3 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Pincap 0x00000094: OUT Detect HDMI Pin Default 0x18560010: [Jack] Digital Out at Int HDMI Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0 Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT Unsolicited: tag=01, enabled=1 Connection: 1 0x02 ========================================================== 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:022f] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 46 Region 0: Memory at fe9fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel ========================================================== I would have thought there would be a sigmatel stac 9205 codec as this is what I find in the bios settings of the laptop. Please let me know if I need to print more informtion for the bug Regards To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1266047/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp