Sound card Problem [realtek]

[s0peil]

Hi
i have MB:Gigabyte 770t USB and Cpu Phenom II x2 555 BE
My sound card didnt work and i have no sound at alll.
only hardware that reconized as sound output in my sound setting is 5700 series HDMI which blong to my VGA .

how can i fix this ?

tnx

[catraeus]

open a terminal.
type
lspci

which will tell the cards that the system sees as being installed. Then post that. Hopefully, you will see something like "Audio device:" or "Multimedia audio controller:" Furthermore, that HDMI should show up, but in addition to the sound device that you really want.

Is your sound device built into the motherboard? I have a Gigabyte as well and the sound chip is made by Realtek, so look for something like that in the results of the command. Your motherboard should have the Realtek ALC888 (pretty sweet!) in it.

If there is no Realtek showing in the lspci results, then you might have to intercept the BIOS as you reboot to turn on the built in motherboard feature of this chip.

Usually, out of the box, the motherboard has its sound device turned on.

Next, is ALSA turned on? this is a device manager that actually commands and feeds audio to the chips... type:
alsactl

which should ask you
alsactl: Specify command...

And finally, PulseAudio should be turned on. This is the Operating System software that smoothly interconnects your audio player, the sounds from the OS, Website music and everything to the ALSA interface. Type:
pulseaudio

and it should complain:
E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
or something like that.

If the ALSA isn't there, then you need to open the
System->
Administartion->
Synaptic Package Manager

program from the menu and install ALSA

Likewise for pulseaudio.

Good luck.

[s0peil]

Tnx for your help but the problem still going on !

lspci just shows 2 audio Devices : 1.5700 HDMI (Which is my VGA) 2.Creative USB headset.

Even when i connect headset and set the out put to headset i can only hear clicks warning and error souns not the music !
all coedecs are installed .

my sound card is onboard .

alsactl and pulseaudio is running .
can i download driver seperatly and install it ?

[MikeTbob]

It would be best if you could post the exact output of the command above because we need more than just the device name. The PCIID's and drivers in use will also be listed.

sudo lspci -knn

[s0peil]

soheil@Mad-Lucid:~$ sudo lspci -knn
[sudo] password for soheil: 
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RX780/RX790 Chipset Host Bridge [1002:5957]
	Kernel modules: ati-agp
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A) [1002:5978]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E) [1002:597e]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) [1002:597f]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] [1002:4390]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3c)
	Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller [1002:439c]
	Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
	Kernel modules: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1204]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:68be]
	Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
	Kernel modules: fglrx
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series] [1002:aa58]
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
02:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation Device [1033:0194] (rev 03)
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
04:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
	Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

This is output

[MikeTbob]

Well, it's showing the device and drivers loaded. From what I can tell, this is the correct driver.
Do you have a volume control in the system tray? If so, click it and make sure it isn't muted. Double check speaker connections to PC and to the wall outlet if applicable.
Open a terminal window and try

sudo alsamixer

Again, make sure it's not muted.

[MikeTbob]

I just noticed the other device is using the same module, I'm not sure if this could be a problem or not. Do you need both devices plugged in?

[s0peil]

Which device ? USB creative headset ?
no i can unplug it .but it would be better both devices plugged in.

in termeinal i can see realtek alc 888 i can change the volume but nothin happens
and its not muted.

i plugged my speaker to pc by Analog and SPDIF .both not working .

[s0peil]

here is the screen shot .
http://www.takshare.com/pictures/522...f4dd76c62a.png



i think this ALC 888 Chips blongs to my VGA too .
Cuz It Says card : ATI .
i pressed F6 and i had 3 Sound cards :
1.this
2.Creative USB headset
3.Spdif digitial (which volume dont change and still 00 )

[catraeus]

AHA! That screen shot says that ALSA is being asked to use the video card's output. Also, all of our lspci commands wouldn't have found the Soundblaster, because it's on a USB port (The memory-stick shaped connection) as opposed to PCI (which is on the motherboard only) and lspci is a command that can only find those PCI cards.

by transitivity, you could try lsusb to find the USB headphone dongle, but that is not the problem. The system is recognizing that port. Since you get some output so far you might be able to get it working as follows:

So

Just click on that panel for "Output" that you got to from System->Preferences->Sound from the upper-left menu and select the "Creative USB Headset..." button. Then your sound should come out the headphones. Note that this panel is also the same one that you got to by pressing the "speaker" icon on the menu/task bar then asking for "preferences..."

Select it back to the HDMI selection for the on-board sound jack.

Note that there should be no sound when you plug in to the S/PDIF jack, because that can (usually) only be a digital connection to special speakers that are capable of digital communication.