Answers to: Audio Not working After Debian Upgrade (Lenny, Squeeze & Sid)

Answer by PurpleRabbit

PurpleRabbit — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:53:46 -0400

Hi, I had the same problems (Debian 6 Squeeze), my soundcard was working one moment and then on the next boot it just would not work, no matter what I tried, interestingly the Orca screen reader worked. I (Googled) the solution and found this page, lucky for me Im a noob and was struggling to install the alsa drivers etc & work out what to do, however the other day when I booted my system <fsck> was automatically forced to run by the system while booting (After 26 boots). When it had finnished and the login screen loaded I could tell that the sound was working again. And it is! Maybe you should try to force <fsck> to see if this works.

Answer by pcardout

pcardout — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:09:22 -0400

Are you a member of the audio group?

Look at /etc/group for a line like:

audio:x:29:youruseridshouldbehere

If it's

audio:x:29:

Then that might be an easy fix!

Answer by olejorgenb

olejorgenb — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:12:40 -0400

I'm just throwing out something here:

First off you could try playing around with http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/HDA_Analyzer

Or:

Go to /sys/devices
Find the folder containing vendor_name with content Realtek. (probably pciXXX/xx/xx/hwC0D0)
$ echo $MODELNAME > modelname && echo 1 > reconfig

If you get echo: write error: device or resource busy, make sure all audio apps is closed. Try different stuff for MODELNAME. Since you have a Realtek ALC268, try some of these: (from $KERNELSOURCE/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt)

ALC267/268
  quanta-il1        Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
  3stack            3-stack model
  toshiba           Toshiba A205
  acer              Acer laptops
  acer-dmic Acer    laptops with digital-mic
  acer-aspire       Acer Aspire One
  dell              Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
  zepto             Zepto laptops
  test      for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
                    adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
                    $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
  auto      auto-config reading BIOS (default)
  generic

I'd try test and generic first

I take in now way responsibility for what this might do. (You might have to reboot a couple times)

Answer by Web31337

Web31337 — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:33:05 -0400

What have you tried so far? alsaconf didn't help? Did you try to rebuild alsa from source?