Friday, February 25, 2011

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Sony Y-Series - Ubuntu - faint sound

 

Yes, I am dual booting with windows 7, which was pre-installed on the
system. The sound works perfectly on the windows 7.

This laptop doesn't have any hardware controls for sound. I check the
control in windows and set them to high.

I checked the settings in BIOS and there is nothing related to sound there.

cat /proc/asound/version gives me this result:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Compiled on Feb 21 2011 for kernel 2.6.32.28-generic (SMP).

lspci -nn|grep Audio gives me this result:
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Inter Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)

I played with the mixer pulling the bars up and down, but no results.

Regards,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Chris Becker <usabecker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any chance you are dual booting with windows? I have found that
> settings in windows can affect function in Ubuntu, as they seem to
> sometimes modify devices in the bios somehow. In the past, it has
> always been an on or off thing for me. For example, if I have wifi,
> the touchpad, or sound off/muted in windows, they will not function in
> Linux at all, even when using "modprobe" to activate from the cli.
> Try booting into Windows and Making sure sound is on and set to max
> volume.
>
> Also, laptops like sony have a number of Keyboard function keys and
> other hardware buttons that control sounds at the software level.
> Have you checked those? I know the Vaios often also have a "sound
> effects" button, and this needs to be deactivated to hear sound in
> Ubuntu properly.
>
> Some other thoughts? What version of alsa are you using? 10.04 does
> not come with the latest version and may need to be upgraded for
> better results. Not sure if there is a newer version in the
> repositories yet, or not, but I think there was a newer one with
> 10.10.
> run "cat /proc/asound/version" from terminal to see..
>
> Also, what is your output of "lspci -nn | grep Audio"? If you have
> more than one returned, you can select your device in Alsa with, i
> think, the F6 key.
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Najib Asmaty
> <najib.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I bought a Sony VAIO Y-Series VPCYA15FG. Unfortunately, they all come
> with
> > Windows 7 pre-installed. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and ran the update.
> Ubuntu
> > picked the sound card, but the sound is so faint that one can hardly hear
> > it; almost mute.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to fix it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Najib
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
>
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