3.4e No Sound: NVidia/Conexant Venice aka Intel-HDA [Solved]

[vprasad]

Has anyone gotten theirs to work in 3.4 or 3.4e? I've seen a few threads in which the steps recommended are to run alsaconf and the run alsamixer... which I've done, and which show the sound devices as being unmuted... but still no audio coming out of my laptop-- nothing from the built-in speakers, and nothing from the headphone jack. Is there any other advice on how to get it to work?




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Compaq Presario v3000z Turion64x2 TL-52
WiFi: Broadcom 4311
Audio: Conexant CX20549 Venice / Intel-HDA

[tekwyzrd]

I had a similar problem with my soundblaster live 5.1 a couple times. Try kmix instead of alsamixer. Open the mixer window and make sure levels aren't minimized and all of the "green lights" are illuminated.

[davemc]

I have the same card, and probably the same laptop. I also had this issue at first. The cause was the alsa driver and a bug with it which has been filed. Its affecting alot of people. The workaround is to load the latest driver, modprobe it and set the defaults. Then (ya, I know its a hoaky fix but it works) reboot WITHOUT the power chord. Bootup and login and put it into hibernate, and then bring it back. Voila, you should now have sound. If that does not work then just reboot again without the power chord in and that should do it. After that, it should work with power chord in or out so long as you do not boot into Vista. If you do then guess what?.. All over again, same deal.

[vprasad]

Then (ya, I know its a hoaky fix but it works) reboot WITHOUT the power chord.

That actually worked Thanks so much!