Sound not working

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Contents 1 Detect sound card 2 Loading the module 3 Soundcard specific fixes 4 Kmix setup 5 Tips and tricks

Detect sound card

Click link above if:

• If your sound isn't working
• You do not know the exact device name
• You know the name but do not have the module name

Loading the module

• Before you click the above link know your module name
• If your sound works after this go to kmix setup

Soundcard specific fixes

• fixes for specific cards

Kmix setup

• minor fixes for kmix

Tips and tricks

• On M8, it is sometimes necessary after installation or upgrading to open a terminal, become root, and type:

alsaconf
alsactl store

Note that alsactl is part of alsa-utils, which is not installed by default.

• Various tips can be found here for fixing annoyances with sounds
• Make sure KDE sound is operating: click KMenu --> Control Center --> Sound & Multimedia --> Sound System. "Enable the sound system" should be checked. Click the Test Sound button to see if it works.
• For snd-hda-intel systems try opening up kwrite or kate as root and commenting out the first line (if that doesn't work, try commenting out the second line instead) in

/etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel 

then run alsaconf.

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