Saturday, May 17, 2008

No sound on ASUS F3SC laptop with Ubuntu 7.04 or 8.04

Hi, thought I should share my problem - and the solution with the forum.

I assume, that you have checked that the speakers are not muted- OK - read on:


WARNING:
I'm a low-tech no-good son-of-a-newbie (have been for 7 years - the learning curve is steeeeeep) ... so please don't ask me a lot of hard questions: I got sound -> I'm happy!


PROBLEM:
No sound after installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on new ASUS F3SC laptop.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DETAILS:

Kernel version:
Code:
jospan@discworld:~$ uname -r
2.6.22-14-generic
ALSA version:
Code:
jospan@discworld:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC).
The sound card:
Code:
jospan@discworld:~$ lspci -v | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
The chipset on the sound card:
Code:
jospan@discworld:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC660-VD
Loaded sound driver:
Code:
jospan@discworld:~$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel

SOLUTION:

Add the following line:
Code:
options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo
to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (create the file if it does not exist)
..and yes: I know it says 'lenovo' and yes: I know my laptop is an ASUS!

Reboot and rejoice to the sound of the Ubuntu opening fanfare

Still no sound? - have you checked again that the speakers aren't muted? - Yes? - sorry, can't help you then...I'm the low-tech no-good son-of-newbie, remember?

By the way: I have also confirmed this solution when using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) (ALSA driver 1.0.16) on the ASUS F3SC.



Taken From: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=728497

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have just tried your cure on a brand new ASUS F3SG with Ubuntu 8.04 and Vista. It works like a dream, thank you very much, you have saved me a lot of hair!
System sounds, music and movies work great, headphones excellent.
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Anonymous said...

It's great it works so good!
Thank you for this solution!

Asus F3Sg works with this!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks! This fixed my ASUS M51s laptop, running Fedora 9 (although I reckon this tip would work for most distros too!)