Linux Lite Forums - Sound

Som

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:55:36 +0800

Estou com problemas com o pulseaudio esta sem som.

No sound device found after kernel update

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:27:33 +0800

Last week, the Lite system updates included a kernel update to 6.8.60 Since that update, I have been unable to get Lite to recognize my sound card. Specifically the headphone port where I plug in my speakers is no longer detected. Looking at the sound mixer, all I have is Dummy Output as a sound device.

I can get sound if I plug in a USB headset, and I get sound remotely from the system if I connect to it via NoMachine, both are treated as separate sound devices from my sound card.

My system is multi-boot, and the headphone port does work when I am booted to Kubuntu, so this is not a hardware problem.

I have tried reinstalling pulseaudio, pipewire, and alsa. I am not sure what else to try at this point and need advice.

Newbi here needs help troubleshooting

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:18:27 +0800

I am Using Linux Lite 7.0 Alongside Windows 10 on Dual Boot (i have used the install alongside windows feture)

System Configuration..

Procerssor: Intel Core i5-4590s
Motherboard: H81 Generic (OEM Chinease Board)
Ram: G.Skill Ripjawsx DDR3 8 GB Dual Channel
SSD (OS): Samsung Evo 870 500GB (Half is used for Linux and other Half is used for Windows 10)
HDD: WD Green 1TB (NTFS) (General Storage, Shared with Windows)
Monitor: Acer Nitro y240 with built in speakers
Headphones:Soundcore Life Q 20
USB Wi-FI Dongle
USB Bluetooth Dongle
USB Logitech wireless Keyboard Dongle
USB Wired Logitech Mouse (Wireless one Died :60

Hello Guys, i am a Linux Noob. After checking out a few OS, i Installed this one as it is very approachable and easy to configure and customize.

Everything is running fine except for one thing.. i do not have any sound in the system. it has been about a couple weeks and i found no solution. So after Lurking about, i Decided to Make a Account and bother you guys directly :011:

here are the 3 peculiar things i noticed during various troubleshooting methods i used..

1- when connected to wireless headphone the system recognizes them and plays sound via them no problem.

2-when system is in no sound mode, videos on any website do not play. they load but do not play. but connecting the headphone and producing sound makes them play again.

3-everytime i restart, system automatically defaults to analog audio despite my connection being HDMI (both produce no sound).

from what i got after running various commands posted on linux forums is that my audio devices are recognized and working well.
Point to note that windows is playing sound no problem.

Thank you for reading this and plese move it to appropriate section if i have posted in wrong one.

on a side note: can i ask Hardware related questions on this forum or is it limited to Software (Linux) Only?

No sound on Acer Chromebook 317 17.3" converted to Linux

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:08:00 +0800

I have a 17.3" Acer Chromebook 317, converted to Linux Mint first of all. Worked well, except no sound (had to use a USB Card), and some of the keys didn't work. The main problem was overheating, 80c running videos. There is no fan, and no ventilation. Eventually I ended up with MX 23.2, Jasper Lake sound worked with pulseaudio . The heat problem remained, but was less than with Mint.
I have now installed Linux Lite 6.6. The keyboard all works, as does the Numpad, and the temperature is much lower. Unfortunately, there is no sound, and it can not find Jasper Lake. Volume Control (pavucontrol), and alsamixer are there, but there is no sign of pulseaudio. Configuration is empty, no cards found. Sound works with a USB card.
It needs to find Jasper Lake. When first installed LL had a 5.15.? kernel. I changed it to 6.6 which MX had, but it made no difference.
Has anyone any suggestions?

B.T.W. I had to use the terminal to install "touchpad-indicator" because its no longer listed in the package manager, wonder why?

Clementine not working

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:48:44 +0800

I installed clementine and tried to play music and this came up: "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."
I followed the directions from the last post asking where to get plugins for clementine and it said to install Restricted Extras...then i tried clementine again and it still said the same thing; plus, after i installed Restricted Extras it crashed and continued to crash every time i started google chrome. So i had to reinstall Linux Lite 6.6.
Thanks for your time.

No Sound on Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14IAN8 (Intel Audio) After Installing Linux Li

Sat, 25 May 2024 12:49:53 +0800

Hi everyone,

I recently installed Linux Lite 6.2 on my Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14IAN8 laptop, but I'm having trouble getting the audio to work.

Here's what I've tried so far:

* Reinstalled PulseAudio and ALSA
* Checked BIOS settings (audio is enabled)
* Made sure there are no physical mute switches engaged
* Updated Linux Lite to the latest version
* Tried loading different kernel modules (`snd_hda_intel`, `sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl`)
* Checked the ALSA mixer (`alsamixer`)

Despite these efforts, the system still doesn't detect any sound cards (`aplay -l` shows no output).

Here's a summary of the relevant terminal output:

* **lspci:** Shows that the audio device is an Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller, but the kernel driver in use is `sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl`.
* **dmesg:** Reveals errors related to the `sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl` module failing to initialize the audio device.
* **lsmod:** Confirms that the `snd_hda_intel` module is loaded but not actively used.
* **aplay -l:** Shows no soundcards found.

I suspect there might be a driver issue or a compatibility problem between the `sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl` module and my Intel audio chip.

Has anyone else encountered a similar issue with this Lenovo model on Linux Lite? Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Lenovo G500 microphone doesn't work

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:02:38 +0800

Hello!

I've got a problem with my Lenovo G500. Internal microphone doesn't work (but recognizable), the same happens when I connect external microphones.
Any ideas how to solve it?

I've checked the Volume control, the microphone is recognized. Here is the screenshot https://imgur.com/a/WUB22fp

My specs are:

OS: Linux Lite 6.6 x86_64
Host: 20236 Lenovo G500
Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic
CPU: Intel i3-3110M (4) @ 2.400GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8570A/8570M

Buzzing in apps

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:19:18 +0800

Hello, I have a serious problem, every time I watch a video, play a game, watch something on VLC, etc. When I use any app apparently, a buzzing sound interrupts the audio after a few minutes. I already tried using another Linux distro but this problem remained. I don't know how to solve it, I'm very new to the Linux world

Unable to pair my Bluetooth headset phones

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:56:26 +0800

Hi folks ! Hope 2023 is ending well for each and everyone of you.

Here's my problem : I have dabbled for some years now with the same Bluetooth USB dongle and headset on various computers, fittes with different distros. Never had a problem.

Was using it under LL on my HP-Compaq mini laptop until it conked out last march. Haven't find the time to get the spare parts, nor the time to fix it yet, so I installed LL on a Samsung mini laptop.

Here comes my problem, can get the whole bluetooth contraption to work, and I can't figure out why. I've checked both dongle and headset on different computers, they work fine. :banghead

Does anyone have any idea to solve my predicament ?

Btw, about my computer :

Code:
inxi -F

System:

  Host: jmb-N150-N210-N220 Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 

  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Linux Lite 6.6 LTS 

Machine:

  Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: N150/N210/N220 v: N/A 

  serial:  

  Mobo: SAMSUNG model: N150/N210/N220 serial:  

  BIOS: Phoenix v: 05JI.M039.20100109.JIP date: 01/09/2010 

Battery:

  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 42.9 Wh condition: 43.3/48.8 Wh (89%) 

CPU:

  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT 

  L2 cache: 512 KiB 

  Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 997 

Graphics:

  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics 

  driver: i915 v: kernel 

  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.4 driver: intel 

  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x576~60Hz 

  OpenGL: renderer: i915 ( v: 2.1 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 

Audio:

  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 

  driver: snd_hda_intel 

  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-91-generic 

Network:

  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 

  IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: 90:4c:e5:97:11:1f 

  Device-2: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet driver: sky2 

  IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: 00:24:54:57:f4:e8 

Drives:

  Local Storage: total: 572.13 GiB used: 51.25 GiB (9.0%) 

  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB 

  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: STORAGE DEVICE 

  size: 125.00 GiB 

Partition:

  ID-1: / size: 438.55 GiB used: 51.24 GiB (11.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 

Sensors:

  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A 

  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 

Info:

  Processes: 225 Uptime: 1h 33m Memory: 1.91 GiB used: 1.18 GiB (62.0%) 

  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38

Change default sound card in Pulse Audio

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:07:31 +0800

I've installed JACK 2 and pulse-module-jack. The system works really well, expect for that I want Jack sink(PulseAudio Jack Sink) to be my default sound card instead of my audio interface. Every time linuxlite boots up, the sound card is always my audio interface and I have to manually change it in the speaker icon to Jack sink(PulseAudio Jack Sink). I want it to be Jack sink(PulseAudio Jack Sink) because I can listen youtube on chrome and record it into my DAW Bitwig. It's just a pain to have to manual change it every time the computer starts up. I'm on LL6.4. Thanks.

linux-lite on a chromebook(wiped)

Wed, 17 May 2023 06:34:23 +0800

hi! im not sure if im posting in the right place , but hoping i am. i know you guys are busy & not trying to waste anyones time . I recently was able to install linux lite on this old dell 11 3120 chromebook . it had reached "end of life " according to google . This is an older chromebook & came out before you could get the google play store on them and before they started including the ability to install linux on chromebooks , so the capabilities were severely limited in using the chromeOS . anyway the laptop itself was still in great shape , so i decided to try linux on it . i bricked it twice , by following other forums & trying the recommended linux operating systems, so by the 2nd time , i had a useless laptop & decided to try linux lite , since this is the one that ive always used & had success with . i apologize if my post is duplicate , ive tried searching , but cant find anything & all other forums related to chromebooks , all seem to still have the chromeOS or the "crostini" terminal , so i want to emphasize that this laptop no longer has any part of chrome OS , its all been wiped . its strictly linux terminal , which is great with me . ive only ran into 1 issue & reaching out because im sure you guys will know the commands to use in the terminal to get sound on this laptop . i even have the speaker icon in the tray , everything works beautifully , except that i have no sound ,ive clicked on the "audio mixer" & tried everything there . i have tried many other versions of linux trying to convert from windows , linuxlite has always been the only one thats ever worked out well . thank you for reading / responding or any help you can send

Sound problem in Linux Lite 6.4

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:30:40 +0800

I have installed Windows 10 and Linux Lite 6.4 on my old Desktop PC - Dual boot.

There is no problem of sound in Windows 10 operating system, but sound does not work in Linux Lite 6.4 OS.

I wasted almost 5 hours to resolve this issue, but no success.

When I hover mouse over the volume icon in the system tray, it shows "muted."

I humbly request you to help me to find out resolution to aforesaid issue.

No Sound in my system

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:01:50 +0800

There is no sound in my system speakers.
I tried "inxi -SMA" in my terminal and it showed like this.
It shows two sound devices in the audio in the section, one is Intel and another is Nvidia.

System doesn't recognize sound-card

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:07:30 +0800

Hi, I'm been searching for this solution but it seems that there is no way to solve it xD
well, this are some outputs that I took

Code:
inxi -F

System:

  Host: hto-machine Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 

  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Linux Lite 6.0 LTS 

Machine:

  Type: Laptop System: HUAWEI product: BOHB-WAX9 v: M1120 

  serial:  

  Mobo: HUAWEI model: BOHB-WAX9-PCB-B2 v: M1120 

  serial:  UEFI: HUAWEI v: 1.42 date: 03/25/2022 

Battery:

  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.1 Wh condition: 41.5/41.6 Wh (100%) 

CPU:

  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-10210U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 

  L2 cache: 6144 KiB 

  Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 400/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 

  3: 900 4: 900 5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 

Graphics:

  Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel 

  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 driver: modesetting 

  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 

  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.1 

Audio:

  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel 

  Device-2: ZhuHai JieLi JieLi AC46 type: USB 

  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usb-storage,usbhid 

  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-41-generic 

Network:

  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi 

  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: 7c:70:db:2a:29:07 

Drives:

  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 57.77 GiB (12.1%) 

  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: 311CD0512GB size: 476.94 GiB 

Partition:

  ID-1: / size: 255.67 GiB used: 57.72 GiB (22.6%) fs: ext4 

  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 

Sensors:

  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A 

  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 

Info:

  Processes: 297 Uptime: 1h 25m Memory: 7.51 GiB used: 1.89 GiB (25.2%) 

  Shell: zsh inxi: 3.0.38

pulseaudio doesn't work either
here is a video
I have dual boot with Windows 10, in Windows the audio works fine, but when I switch to Linux Lite 6, the output of the audio mixer is dummy output
Thanks if someone can help

No “Input feedback sounds” in LL 6.0

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:40:45 +0800

Hello,

The “Event sounds” and “Input feedback sounds” worked well for me in LL 5.8, but I can not turn them on in LL 6.0. Both options are enabled in ‘Settings->Appearance->Settings’. The sounds are OK otherwise. I can hear the “Login sound” for example.

The “SoundThemeName” field in ‘Settings->Settings Editor->xsettings’ was empty initially, while in LL 5.8 the value was “Lite”. I have changed the field's value to “Lite”, “/usr/share/sounds/Lite”, “/usr/share/sounds/Lite/index”, and “/usr/share/sounds/Lite/index.theme”, but it didn’t make any difference.

Has anybody turned “Input feedback sounds” on in LL 6.0 and what “SoundThemeName“ value is used?