HDA ATI SB / INTEL Sound card problem

Hi people, It seems that many people are struggling with the HDA ATI or INTEL sound card/chip. Especially laptop users seem to have different problems. Hearing no sound from their speakers but only with their headphones. Or the other way around, no jack sensitivity or only hearing sound from their headphones and not trough the speakers. And, of course the worst kind, not having any sound at all. Many forums are giving the 3stack of 6stack solution which (partially) works for some people. (Changing or adding the following sentence: options snd-hda-intel model=3stack ) into the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file. But the HDA soundcards seem to be complexer than that. There are a lot of different HDA cards with their own set of "rules" To tackle this problem, you have to find out what type of card is in your computer. you can check that by typing: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec (or if that fails : aplay -l ) The output will contain the exact type your your card or chip. For example: "Code:ALC861VD/660VD" Now that you know this, you can look up that type in the list posted below: Model name Description ---------- ----------- ALC880 3stack 3-jack in back and a headphone out 3stack-digout 3-jack in back, a HP out and a SPDIF out 5stack 5-jack in back, 2-jack in front 5stack-digout 5-jack in back, 2-jack in front, a SPDIF out 6stack 6-jack in back, 2-jack in front 6stack-digout 6-jack with a SPDIF out w810 3-jack z71v 3-jack (HP shared SPDIF) asus 3-jack (ASUS Mobo) asus-w1v ASUS W1V asus-dig ASUS with SPDIF out asus-dig2 ASUS with SPDIF out (using GPIO2) uniwill 3-jack fujitsu Fujitsu Laptops (Pi1536) F1734 2-jack lg LG laptop (m1 express dual) lg-lw LG LW20/LW25 laptop tcl TCL S700 clevo Clevo laptops (m520G, m665n) test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can be adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC260 hp HP machines hp-3013 HP machines (3013-variant) fujitsu Fujitsu S7020 acer Acer TravelMate will Will laptops (PB V7900) replacer Replacer 672V basic fixed pin assignment (old default model) auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC262 fujitsu Fujitsu Laptop hp-bpc HP xw4400/6400/8400/9400 laptops hp-bpc-d7000 HP BPC D7000 benq Benq ED8 benq-t31 Benq T31 hippo Hippo (ATI) with jack detection, Sony UX-90s hippo_1 Hippo (Benq) with jack detection sony-assamd Sony ASSAMD basic fixed pin assignment w/o SPDIF auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC268 3stack 3-stack model toshiba Toshiba A205 acer Acer laptops auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC662 3stack-dig 3-stack (2-channel) with SPDIF 3stack-6ch 3-stack (6-channel) 3stack-6ch-dig 3-stack (6-channel) with SPDIF 6stack-dig 6-stack with SPDIF lenovo-101e Lenovo laptop auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC882/885 3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O 6stack-dig 6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O arima Arima W820Di1 targa Targa T8, MSI-1049 T8 asus-a7j ASUS A7J asus-a7m ASUS A7M macpro MacPro support mbp3 Macbook Pro rev3 imac24 iMac 24'' with jack detection w2jc ASUS W2JC auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC883/888 3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O 6stack-dig 6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O 3stack-6ch 3-jack 6-channel 3stack-6ch-dig 3-jack 6-channel with SPDIF I/O 6stack-dig-demo 6-jack digital for Intel demo board acer Acer laptops (Travelmate 3012WTMi, Aspire 5600, etc) acer-aspire Acer Aspire 9810 medion Medion Laptops medion-md2 Medion MD2 targa-dig Targa/MSI targa-2ch-dig Targs/MSI with 2-channel laptop-eapd 3-jack with SPDIF I/O and EAPD (Clevo M540JE, M550JE) lenovo-101e Lenovo 101E lenovo-nb0763 Lenovo NB0763 lenovo-ms7195-dig Lenovo MS7195 haier-w66 Haier W66 6stack-hp HP machines with 6stack (Nettle boards) 3stack-hp HP machines with 3stack (Lucknow, Samba boards) auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC861/660 3stack 3-jack 3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O 6stack-dig 6-jack with SPDIF I/O 3stack-660 3-jack (for ALC660) uniwill-m31 Uniwill M31 laptop toshiba Toshiba laptop support asus Asus laptop support asus-laptop ASUS F2/F3 laptops auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) ALC861VD/660VD 3stack 3-jack 3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF OUT 6stack-dig 6-jack with SPDIF OUT 3stack-660 3-jack (for ALC660VD) 3stack-660-digout 3-jack with SPDIF OUT (for ALC660VD) lenovo Lenovo 3000 C200 dallas Dallas laptops hp HP TX1000 auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) CMI9880 minimal 3-jack in back min_fp 3-jack in back, 2-jack in front full 6-jack in back, 2-jack in front full_dig 6-jack in back, 2-jack in front, SPDIF I/O allout 5-jack in back, 2-jack in front, SPDIF out auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) AD1882 3stack 3-stack mode (default) 6stack 6-stack mode AD1884 N/A AD1981 basic 3-jack (default) hp HP nx6320 thinkpad Lenovo Thinkpad T60/X60/Z60 toshiba Toshiba U205 AD1983 N/A AD1984 basic default configuration thinkpad Lenovo Thinkpad T61/X61 AD1986A 6stack 6-jack, separate surrounds (default) 3stack 3-stack, shared surrounds laptop 2-channel only (FSC V2060, Samsung M50) laptop-eapd 2-channel with EAPD (Samsung R65, ASUS A6J) laptop-automute 2-channel with EAPD and HP-automute (Lenovo N100) ultra 2-channel with EAPD (Samsung Ultra tablet PC) AD1988 6stack 6-jack 6stack-dig ditto with SPDIF 3stack 3-jack 3stack-dig ditto with SPDIF laptop 3-jack with hp-jack automute laptop-dig ditto with SPDIF auto auto-config reading BIOS (default) Conexant 5045 laptop Laptop config test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can be adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y Conexant 5047 laptop Basic Laptop config laptop-hp Laptop config for some HP models (subdevice 30A5) laptop-eapd Laptop config with EAPD support test for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can be adjusted. Appearing only when compiled with $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y STAC9200 ref Reference board dell-d21 Dell (unknown) dell-d22 Dell (unknown) dell-d23 Dell (unknown) dell-m21 Dell Inspiron 630m, Dell Inspiron 640m dell-m22 Dell Latitude D620, Dell Latitude D820 dell-m23 Dell XPS M1710, Dell Precision M90 dell-m24 Dell Latitude 120L dell-m25 Dell Inspiron E1505n dell-m26 Dell Inspiron 1501 dell-m27 Dell Inspiron E1705/9400 STAC9205/9254 ref Reference board dell-m42 Dell (unknown) dell-m43 Dell Precision dell-m44 Dell Inspiron STAC9220/9221 ref Reference board 3stack D945 3stack 5stack D945 5stack + SPDIF intel-mac-v1 Intel Mac Type 1 intel-mac-v2 Intel Mac Type 2 intel-mac-v3 Intel Mac Type 3 intel-mac-v4 Intel Mac Type 4 intel-mac-v5 Intel Mac Type 5 macmini Intel Mac Mini (equivalent with type 3) macbook Intel Mac Book (eq. type 5) macbook-pro-v1 Intel Mac Book Pro 1st generation (eq. type 3) macbook-pro Intel Mac Book Pro 2nd generation (eq. type 3) imac-intel Intel iMac (eq. type 2) imac-intel-20 Intel iMac (newer version) (eq. type 3) dell-d81 Dell (unknown) dell-d82 Dell (unknown) dell-m81 Dell (unknown) dell-m82 Dell XPS M1210 STAC9202/9250/9251 ref Reference board, base config m2-2 Some Gateway MX series laptops m6 Some Gateway NX series laptops pa6 Gateway NX860 series STAC9227/9228/9229/927x ref Reference board 3stack D965 3stack 5stack D965 5stack + SPDIF dell-3stack Dell Dimension E520 STAC9872 vaio Setup for VAIO FE550G/SZ110 vaio-ar Setup for VAIO AR As you can see, every type / chipset has several possibilities. Type the first word from the list in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base or (if that one does not exist) /etc/modprobe.conf Just try them until you've found the right match. ( you can edit these files with your favourite text editor, for example: sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base or sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.conf ) For example: If cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec or : aplay -l return "Realtek ALC260" , Look under "ALC260" in the list and add the following line in your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base or (if that one does not exist or is empty) /etc/modprobe.conf options snd-hda-intel model=hp Reboot and check if your sound if working. Do not forget to check your mixer to see if (new) channels are muted. If that one doesn't work or partially works, try another one in the list eg: options snd-hda-intel model=base options snd-hda-intel model=will or options snd-hda-intel model=acer That's all there is to it! I hope this forum post will help you as good as the info, gathered on the internet by me, in combination with days/weeks/months of testing and searching by me. I would like to know this this post solved your problems. Please let me know by posting your result in this thread. Thank you for your time, good luck and enjoy your sound! Donny K. (Linux Freak)