Tensorbook bionic - No sound

On a fresh install of tensorbook with Ubuntu 18.04, I have no sound.

I have tried a number of ‘solutions’ suggested online - no luck. (for example: How to Resolve no sound problem on Ubuntu 22.04)

I looked around in the discussion groups here for a solution.

The closest I could find was a reference to a 17.10 but there is nothing for 18.04.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/lambda-labs-get/oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms_0.201804250316_ubuntu17.10.1_all.deb

Could someone at lambda labs, please point to a bionic version of this driver so I can try it?

Unfortunately, there is no entry here for a successful build for bionic: Packages in “ALSA daily build snapshots” : ALSA daily build snapshots : “Ubuntu Audio Development Team” team

I had the same problem. I was able to solve it (after a lot of fight) following the steps 1 to 4 from here: SoundTroubleshootingProcedure - Community Help Wiki

Now it works fine.

Good luck!

I have actually when through that earlier as well, but no luck.
The only thing I changed in the instructions is to adapt to 18.04.

Did you get it to work on 18.04?

Ok, decided to start from scratch. Reinstalled the Ubuntu 18.04. Sound works before I install nvidia-drivers.But immediately after nvidia-drivers there is no sound.

To reproduce:

  • Do a stock install of ubuntu 18.04
  • Validate sound is working
  • Then install nvidia-driver
  • ubuntu-drivers devices
  • sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
  • sudo reboot
  • nvidia-smi (Driver 430.26 installed and working correctly
  • Test sound - Failure (No sound on speaker and headphones)
  • install and run pavucontrol to ensure there is Built-in Analog Stereo. Yes
  • run alsamixer and ensure all volumes are turned up
  • test again. Still no Sound

Any help / pointers appreciated

Ok, after the nvidia-driver install and reboot, sound wasn’t working.

But I repeated another which I had done just before the driver install:

  • apt update && apt upgrade

And now sound is back!

Unfortunately, I dismissed the terminal window, so didn’t pay attention to what package got upgraded … sorry.

Sharing just in case anyone else has a similar issue.

I once again have no sound. So, I tried dmesg and saw

snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000.

Here is the full output. Any pointers?

(base) ravi@ravi-tb:~$ dmesg | grep -C1 -E 'ALSA|HDA|HDMI|snd[_-]|sound|hda.codec|hda.intel'

[ 0.243617] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Dell-Video)
[ 0.243617] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
[ 0.243617] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-HPI-Hybrid-Graphics)

[ 3.889742] AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled
[ 3.895810] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 → 0002)
[ 3.896111] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
[ 3.896116] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[ 3.897797] psmouse serio2: synaptics: queried min coordinates: x [1278…], y [1122…]

[ 4.048384] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input14
[ 4.048483] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Linked as a consumer to 0000:00:02.0
[ 4.048525] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[ 4.049513] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver

[ 4.064409] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver in 8 mode, major device number 511
[ 4.096410] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC1220: line_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[ 4.096412] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 4.096413] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 4.096413] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0
[ 4.096414] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: dig-out=0x1e/0x0
[ 4.096414] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: inputs:
[ 4.096415] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Mic=0x18
[ 4.096416] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Headset Mic=0x19
[ 4.096416] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Internal Mic=0x12
[ 4.096866] ACPI Warning: _SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20181213/nsarguments-66)

[ 4.601524] r8169 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0: Link is Down
[ 4.714781] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input19
[ 4.714834] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input20
[ 4.714916] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input21
[ 4.853487] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS
[ 5.118410] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: No response from codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x208f8100
[ 6.122408] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x208f8100
[ 6.122534] azx_single_wait_for_response: 30 callbacks suppressed
[ 6.122623] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: failed to get afg sub nodes
[ 6.122639] snd_hda_codec_hdmi: probe of hdaudioC0D2 failed with error -22
[ 6.123168] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: failed to get afg sub nodes
[ 6.123180] snd_hda_codec_hdmi: probe of hdaudioC0D2 failed with error -22
[ 6.124009] snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: failed to get afg sub nodes
[ 6.124021] snd_hda_codec_hdmi: probe of hdaudioC0D2 failed with error -22
[ 6.124685] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D2: autoconfig for Generic: line_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
[ 6.124685] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D2: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 6.124686] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D2: hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 6.124687] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D2: mono: mono_out=0x0
[ 6.124688] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D2: dig-out=0x3/0x0
[ 6.124688] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC0D2: inputs:
[ 6.125553] snd_hda_codec_generic: probe of hdaudioC0D2 failed with error -5
[ 6.125555] hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec
[ 6.126994] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input15
[ 6.127059] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input16
[ 8.290321] wlp0s20f3: authenticate with a6:17:d8:11:72:eb

[ 8.345567] wlp0s20f3: Limiting TX power to 21 (24 - 3) dBm as advertised by a6:17:d8:11:72:eb
[ 9.007645] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000. -5
[ 9.008268] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000. -5
[ 14.466526] azx_single_send_cmd: 523 callbacks suppressed
[ 20.926428] azx_single_send_cmd: 217 callbacks suppressed
[ 21.376059] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000. -5
[ 21.376790] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000. -5
[ 21.646072] rfkill: input handler disabled

[ 43.183925] azx_single_send_cmd: 217 callbacks suppressed
[ 43.645000] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000. -5
[ 43.645703] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x2b8000. -5
[ 80.136776] azx_single_send_cmd: 236 callbacks suppressed
(base) ravi@ravi-tb:~$