I'm getting no sound (dummy sound) from speakers on my freshly installed Mint Mate. I looked up and applied most popular solutions found online, but could not get it to work. Drivers are up-to-date, when looking into system mixer, the volume seems to be displayed, but still no sound. In amixer, all values are set to '0', yet no sound (see below). I also tried unmuting via command line, but no luck. I'm currently unable to plug in any headphones into the port, so can't tell if it works.
Maybe some of you have an idea, as to what to do next?
These are my specs, if you need more, just let me know what command is to be typed in, and I'll get back ASAP with the answer.
Cheers
lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 – 87
Mono: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 – 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
Capture exclusive group: 0
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 – 31
Mono: Capture [off]
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: 0 – 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 – 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 – 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 – 31
Front Left: Capture 19 [61%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 19 [61%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic',0
Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
Capture exclusive group: 0
Capture channels: Mono
Mono: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left – Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left – Front Right
Limits: 0 – 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Disabled'
Best Answer
Thanks to the magnificent Discord user mys31f the sound is ON!
It takes only one command, that they found on some very old forum post:
The problem is that I need to input it after every reboot.
So...
Because of the need to init alsa every time after reboot, i Kept on looking for answers.
on forums.linuxmint.com I found a couple of related posts, and one user popped out: MrEen. He has a lot of knowledge on the issue of missing sound, that he compiled into a set of Fix Tips. However, nothing from that list seemed to be a solution to my problem, so I asked him personally, and that's the thread.
Basically ALSA seems to not store the settings, so one needs to manually save them in a config file.
That's it. It works.