Sony Vaio Fit 15 - No sound on Speakers

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Hi everyone,

I’m pretty new to OpenSuse and I’m facing quite a annoying issue.
When I have my headphones connected to the jack input the sound works like a charm, but when I try to use the speakers, no sound is produced, the volume may be to 100% and still no sound on speakers.
My Vaio (SVF152C29X) configuration is:

cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.7.10-1.16-desktop (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.7.2 20130108 [gcc-4_7-branch revision 195012] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 31 20:21:23 UTC 2013 (97c14ba)

uname -a
Linux hugin.asgard 3.7.10-1.16-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 31 20:21:23 UTC 2013 (97c14ba) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.7.10-1.16-desktop.

head -n 1 /proc/asound/card/codec#**
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Realtek ID 233

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#3 <==
Codec: Intel PantherPoint HDMI

I updated the kernel, the sound driver, installed and updated pulse audio, alsa. I tried to remove pulse audio but had no success.

Anyone has any ideas on this matter!?
Thanks for the help!

Cheers,

Vlad

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If your problem is dual sound devices or if you just need to understand how PulseAudio works, please look at my blog here:

PulseAudio and Selecting the Proper Sound Card Configuration - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

I have a sound testing bash script that also loads required sound applications if not installed here:

S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool - Version 1.11 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Hi jdmcdaniel3…

Thanks for the help… but did not find a solution…
This is really weird… I got sound on my headphones and none on the speakers…
All tests are OK… it shows that the music is playing and all… this is no hardware issue… I have a dual boot with windows and works like a charm…
I’m still looking for the solution…

Anything else I should try???

Thanks

Vlad

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One of the links in jdmcdaniel3’s post pointed to a blog where he noted the benefits of using ‘pavucontrol’ application to examine and tune the pulse audio settings.

In pavucontrol, if on the ‘Output Devices’ tab, you have ‘show all output devices’ selected (at the bottom of the tab) and if toward the top in the ‘port’ selection, check to see what you selections may be ? They could be Speakers, analog out, headphones (or something like that) . Try toggling between those various settings while audio is playing.

Also, do not use Skype as your test for sound as it has its own problems, as I documented in a blog entry : https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/oldcpu/skype-4-0-4-2-opensuse-13-1-151/

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Hey oldcpu,

Thanks for the help, the only Port showing is Analog Output. There is nothing else to select.
Any ideas???

Cheers,

Vlad

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I would need to see more of your PC’s audio configuration to come up with more ideas. You can provide that by running an audio diagnostic script, while your PC is connected to the Internet. This will upload the audio configuration to an alsa sound driver so, so that the information can be accessed by others. To do so, as a regular user send the following command inside a konsole/terminal:


/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

and select the SHARE/UPLOAD option when prompted. When the script completes running, it will pass in the konsole a web-site/URL address where the information was uploaded to. Please post the set-site/URL-address here.