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After a fresh installation of Linux Mint on my laptop I notice that audio isn't working, and I see dummy input/output. After this I had tried a lot of solutions.

After adding

options snd-hda-intel model=generic

in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf I could see only HDMI output. This mean that headphone and integrated speaker are unavailable.

This seems like that SO can't know about internal speaker, microphone and audio jack.

How could I fix?

My system information:

System info

dmesg -l err,warn

Update

I tried different kernels: 5.11, 5.8 and 5.4. This is a new laptop, this is the first installation. I don't know if should work...

Today, something strange has happened. I connect my headphones to randomly check if something has been changed (I don't know why) and I heard some noise from the laptop speakers. Then I try to put my smartphone line out in the computer jack with an AUX cable. And I can hear the sound of the smartphone thought the speakers. When I change the volume, nothing happened. Why? It could be some physical problem of the sound card?

Removing my addiction in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Update 2

find /lib/modules -type f -name snd-es\*

/lib/modules/5.11.0-22-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko /lib/modules/5.11.0-22-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-74-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-74-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-77-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-77-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko /lib/modules/5.8.0-59-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko /lib/modules/5.8.0-59-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-58-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-58-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-37-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-37-generic/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko

find /lib/modules -type f -name snd-sb\*

/lib/modules/5.11.0-22-generic/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-74-generic/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-77-generic/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko /lib/modules/5.8.0-59-generic/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-58-generic/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko /lib/modules/5.4.0-37-generic/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko

lspci -k

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Gemini Lake Host Bridge (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Gemini Lake Host Bridge 00:00.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Processor Participant (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Processor Participant Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600] (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 605 Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor High Definition Audio (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Sound Subsystem: Device 1c6c:122a Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, snd_sof_pci 00:0f.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Trusted Execution Engine Interface (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Trusted Execution Engine Interface Kernel driver in use: mei_me Kernel modules: mei_me 00:12.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor SATA Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - SATA Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci 00:13.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Gemini Lake PCI Express Root Port (rev f6) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:13.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Gemini Lake PCI Express Root Port (rev f6) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:13.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Gemini Lake PCI Express Root Port (rev f6) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:15.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci_pci 00:16.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO I2C Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO I2C Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:16.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO I2C Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO I2C Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:16.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 31b0 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:16.3 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 31b2 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:17.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 31b4 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:17.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 31b6 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:17.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 31b8 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:17.3 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 31ba (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:18.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:18.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:18.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:18.3 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:19.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:19.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:19.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci 00:1c.0 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci Kernel modules: sdhci_pci 00:1e.0 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Device 31d0 (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci Kernel modules: sdhci_pci 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor LPC Controller (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270 00:1f.1 SMBus: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Gaussian Mixture Model (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard - Other Subsystem: Intel Corporation Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Gaussian Mixture Model Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus Kernel modules: i2c_i801 01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter Kernel driver in use: rtw_8821ce Kernel modules: rtw88_8821ce

apt list --installed | grep alsa

alsa-base/focal,focal,now 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu5 all [installed] alsa-topology-conf/focal,focal,now 1.2.2-1 all [installed] alsa-ucm-conf/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 1.2.2-1ubuntu0.8 all [installed] alsa-utils/focal-updates,now 1.2.2-1ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed] gstreamer1.0-alsa/focal-updates,focal-security,now 1.16.2-4ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]
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  • You got lots of HDA and codec related errors in your dmesg. If it was working before, try using different kernels (ideally, including the one you had before; you can install different kernels without changing everything), and see if the issue persists. If it worked on an old kernel, but doesn't work on the newest kernel, it's a regression problem and needs a bugreport for the kernel. Commented Jun 27, 2021 at 7:51
  • Back out of the your additions to the modprobe file.. Then type "aplay -l". Most likely you need to modify pluseaudio - or the /etc/pulse/default.pa file. Commented Jun 28, 2021 at 7:58
  • @CinaedSimson what could I edit in /etc/pulse/default.pa file Commented Jul 1, 2021 at 17:41
  • Try restarting pulseaudio: "pulseaudio -k". Commented Jul 2, 2021 at 6:08
  • @CinaedSimson I had already tried. No changes. Commented Jul 4, 2021 at 23:08

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I had the same problem after moving to Mint from Ubuntu (due to an intense hatred of SNAPS) and then upgrading to Linux Mint 22.1 Xia. I ended up switching to a pipewire only solution as I mentioned here based on information I located here. I first tried installing the meta package as suggested with.

sudo apt install pipewire-audio

For some reason that didn't work for me. So I ended up installing and configuring manually as follows:

sudo apt install pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.service wireplumber.service pipewire-pulse.service systemctl --user mask pulseaudio systemctl --user daemon-reload

This resulted in allowing me to switch seamlessly between my HDMI and bluetooth outputs via the Sound settings control panel. If all is well

LANG=C pactl info | grep '^Server Name'

should return

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.0.5)

instead of the multiple servers you may have ended up with in an attempt to resolve this annoying issue.

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