> I upgraded from Mageia 7.1 to Mageia 8 and sound worked fine until latest
> updates around 2 weeks ago.
When this sort of thing happens, it can help to identify which update(s) caused the problem by doing:
 $ rpm -qa --last | less
which shows all package dates, most recent first. If you know the date of the start of the problem, you can see which updates happened then.

Please do also:
 $ ps aux | grep pulseaudio
will check that PulseAudio is running.
 $ pactl stat
will check that you can connect to the PulseAudio daemon correctly. Ignore O/P.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Hello Lewis..

Thanks for the Tip on using $ rpm -qa --last | less.. I will use it next time instead of fresh reinstall.

 > $ ps aux | grep pulseaudio

ezequiel  2700  0.0  0.0 1474400 9912 ?        S<sl 10:05   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
ezequiel 28253  0.0  0.0  12236   576 pts/0    S+   11:53   0:00 grep --color pulseaudio


 > $ pactl stat

Currently in use: 1 block containing 63.9 KiB bytes total.
Allocated during whole lifetime: 1010 blocks containing 4.0 MiB bytes total.
Sample cache size: 0 B

I did a pulseaudio --kill, pulseaudio --start and still no audio.

Regards

(In reply to Ezequiel Partida from comment #2)
> Thanks for the Tip on using $ rpm -qa --last | less.. I will use it next
> time instead of fresh reinstall.
You can still do it! The list is date ordered.  If you can remember the approximate date the problem appeared. Look for any package update at that time which looks relevant.

Thank you for the test outputs. They at least show that pulseaudio is running and accessible.

Having to assign this globally. No idea what more to suggest.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: No sound since moving to Mageia 8 Cauldron. => No sound since recent updates to Mageia 8 Cauldron.
CC: lewyssmith => (none)

Hello Lewis

The fresh install was done using network installation and I installed Cauldron Directly which never worked.

I will do a fresh Install from Mageia 7.1 and later upgrade to detech with package broke it.

Hello,

I did a fresh reinstall of Mageia 7.1 and everything worked great until the system got upgrated to kernel-desktop-5.5.6-2.mga7.

Regards
Ezequiel

I forgot to tell you that kernel-desktop-5.1.14-1.mga7 works great.!

Regards
Ezequiel

I just upgraded to Mageia 8 Cauldron and still no sound.

Rebooted with kernel-desktop-5.1.14-1.mga7 and it works great.

Sound is detected normally..

So something is missing on the newer kernels.

Regards
Ezequiel

(In reply to Ezequiel Partida from comment #7)
> Rebooted with kernel-desktop-5.1.14-1.mga7 and it works great.
> So something is missing on the newer kernels.

This seems an upstream regression. Can you try the kernel-linus?

Also, cna you ensure with alsamixer -c0 you have no muted channel that pulseaudio fails to unmute? (I've got this bug sometimes)

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge

Hello Jose Jorge,

with 5.5.8-desktop-1.mga8 alsamixer -c0 shows:

invalid card index: 0
try `alsamixer --help' for more information


>alsamixer (by itself)

ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused

>pactl stat
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused


I just installed Kernel-linus to try.

Hello Again

I just installed Kernel-linux-5.4.20-1.mga8 and sound works great.

That means that 5.5.x-desktop-1.mga8 are  missing the drivers something.

Regards
Ezequiel Partida (ZekeMX)

Hi,

Will this be fixed on kernel-desltop-5.4.x?

Regards
Ezequiel Partida

Hello,

I just upgrader to kernel-linus-5.5.15-1.mga8... and also no sound.

Regards
Ezequiel Partida

Assigning to kernel team since it works with older kernels

Assignee: pkg-bugs => kernel
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

What about current kernel 5.7?

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Can you try running the following command and then reloading sound modules (or just rebooting)?

echo "options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

CC: (none) => pterjan

(if this doesn't work you can try with =3 instead of =1)

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #14)
> What about current kernel 5.7?

I just installed 5.7.8-desktop-1.mga8 and rebooted and same problem.

(In reply to Pascal Terjan from comment #15)
> Can you try running the following command and then reloading sound modules
> (or just rebooting)?
> 
> echo "options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

YOU ARE MY HERO PASCAL!!!

It WORKS!!!

Something is not setting up my sound card correctly.. But now it works like a charm..

Thank You

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

just to le you know that I aldo found the next laptop that mageia also does not configura sound.. the same solution for the reported Desktop on this ticket solves the problem on the nex laptop.

X1 Carbon 7th Gen - (Type 20QD, 20QE) Laptop (ThinkPad) - Type 20QE

Regards

*** Bug 27748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Hi Ezequiel.

Can you provide here for both machines?

$ inxi -v4 -c6 -A

Resolution: FIXED => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
CC: (none) => ouaurelien

this was fixed using this:

echo "options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
sudo touch /usr/bin/pulseaudio
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pulseaudio

Marking this as resolved.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED