Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Toshiba Satellite M115-S1061
realtek alc861-vd
AlsaMixer shows my card/chip HDA ATI SB and RealTek ALC861-VD
However when I open Rhythmbox or look at sound settings no device appears under Output - Play Sound through.
If I plug in headphones and turn all volume settings in Alsamixer up I can hear sound very, very, very faintly (did I say it was faint).
The very weird thing is that when I run a very old Live CD for SLAX (Linux 2.6.27.27) the sound comes on right away at full normal volume, once the image boots. In examining that environment, it says the audio is coming under OSS and not ALSA.
UPDATES (Additional Details):
The sound card is a RealTek High Defintion Audio Bus on the Motherboard. Based upon what Ubuntu shows in AlsaMixer and Windows 2008 shows me all I know is the Audio Codec is ALC861.
pulseaudio --check
- No Results returned, command prompt is simply returned.
pulseaudio --dump-conf
### Read from configuration file: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ###
daemonize = no
fail = yes
high-priority = yes
nice-level = -11
realtime-scheduling = yes
realtime-priority = 5
allow-module-loading = yes
allow-exit = yes
use-pid-file = yes
system-instance = no
local-server-type = user
cpu-limit = no
enable-shm = yes
flat-volumes = no
lock-memory = no
exit-idle-time = 20
scache-idle-time = 20
dl-search-path = /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules
default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-default-script-file = yes
log-target = auto
log-level = notice
resample-method = speex-float-1
enable-remixing = yes
enable-lfe-remixing = no
default-sample-format = s16le
default-sample-rate = 44100
default-sample-channels = 2
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10
enable-deferred-volume = yes
deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 1
deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
shm-size-bytes = 0
log-meta = no
log-time = no
log-backtrace = 0
rlimit-fsize = -1
rlimit-data = -1
rlimit-stack = -1
rlimit-core = -1
rlimit-rss = -1
rlimit-as = -1
rlimit-nproc = -1
rlimit-nofile = 256
rlimit-memlock = -1
rlimit-locks = -1
rlimit-sigpending = -1
rlimit-msgqueue = -1
rlimit-nice = 31
rlimit-rtprio = 9
rlimit-rttime = 1000000
amixer -c 0
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume penum
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 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%] [30.00dB]
Front Right: 3 [100%] [30.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 17 [55%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 17 [55%] [12.00dB] [on]
pacmd dump
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
Configuration dump generated at Fri Aug 23 23:15:34 2013
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-alsa-card device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_14.2" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_14.2" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1"
load-module module-udev-detect
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-gconf
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
load-module module-x11-publish display=:0
load-module module-x11-bell display=:0 sample=bell.ogg
load-module module-x11-cork-request display=:0
load-module module-x11-xsmp display=:0 session_manager=local/familylaptop:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1289,unix/familylaptop:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1289
load-module module-cli-protocol-unix
set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo 0x10000
set-sink-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo no
suspend-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo yes
set-source-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor 0x10000
set-source-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor no
suspend-source alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor yes
set-source-volume alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo 0x725a
set-source-mute alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo no
suspend-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo yes
set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_14.2 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
set-default-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
EOF
pactl
No valid command specified.