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I've just installed a fresh new Debian 9 LXDE into an Acer AMD notebook and it seems that all the audio devices were correctly recognized: 

root@debian:~# aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: CX20584 Analog [CX20584 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

However, none of these devices are working properly:

  • only a few stuff plays on the headphones, ex:
    speaker-test --device plughw:1,0
    aplay --device plughw:1,0 test.wav
    system beep
  • only a few stuff plays on the HDMI, ex:
    speaker-test --device plughw:0,3
    aplay --device plughw:0,3 test.wav
    system beep
  • no sound from the speakers
  • no volume icon in the bottom task bar

Question

  • Could this be a sound routing issue?
  • Setting the main audio device as default could solve this issue?
  • How to solve that? Any other idea?

Notebook Specifications
Aspire E1-421-0622

  • AMD 2 Core™ Processor E1-1200 (1.4 GHz) 1MB Cache 64-bit Processing
  • AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Controller
  • 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM Memory
  • 256MB shared video memory
  • Atheros HB125 IEEE 802.11b/g/n Fast Ethernet Network Card

Debian Version
debian-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Software selection

(  ) Debian desktop environment
(  ) ... GNOME
(  ) ... Xfce
(  ) ... KDE
(  ) ... Cinnamon
(  ) ... MATE
(X) ... LXDE
(  ) web server
(  ) print server
(  ) SSH server
(X) standard system utilities

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  • Mixer/sound routing issues. Cannot help further.
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Commented Jun 4, 2018 at 1:26
  • @RuiFRibeiro Maybe it is something simpler. Ex: The default audio is set to HDMI instead of speaker. Could this cause the problem?
    – Mark Messa
    Commented Jun 4, 2018 at 1:33
  • That could be a sound routing issue. In my Lenovo in openbsd was set for the headphones only by default. Sound is not my specialty, not able to help
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Commented Jun 4, 2018 at 1:34
  • @RuiFRibeiro Do you think that the latest kernel from backports might be the direction?
    – Mark Messa
    Commented Jun 4, 2018 at 1:49
  • Nah, some sysctl or alsa settings. Não o consigo ajudar mais que isto.
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Commented Jun 4, 2018 at 1:52

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
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Most likely, alsa is loading the correct modules but setting the wrong sound device as default.

Assign card 1 to index=0 with /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf containing: 

alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel

options snd-hda-intel id=Generic_1 index=0
options snd-hda-intel id=Generic index=1

After rebooting, the main audio device should be the default: 

root@debian:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: CX20584 Analog [CX20584 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Open a terminal and confirm in alsamixer that all channels are unmuted.
Speakers, headphones and HDMI should be working now.

Source: Audio and snd-hda-intel

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