<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>I just read a series of three blog posts detailing about how useless and broken sound is in Linux.</div><div>This resonated with me.<br></div><div>On my Linux Mint system, the sound device periodically disappears, but it comes back when I reboot.</div><div>I am not well versed in Linux sound, however. I just know it doesn't work, at least in Mint.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On my T14, aplay is working, but aplay -i just hangs without producing output.</div><div><br></div><div>On my desktop, Firefox can play audio just fine, in youtube videos, but aplay doesn't work:</div><div>ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection terminated</div><div>and the Sound control panel also claims that I have no sound devices.</div><div>(Rebooting my desktop should fix this, but I won't do that right now.)</div><div><br></div><div>At some point I plan to install Fedora on a sacrificial machine and see if audio works reliably there.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Jun 2, 2025, at 5:07 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">I know this group has some audiophiles who are well versed in Linux's</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">sound components.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">I bought one of the new N100 mini PCs to run various stuff on, and the plan </div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">is to replace the Raspberry Pi4 with something more powerful, yet close in </div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">power consumption to the Pi.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">The N100 PC runs Xubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, and will be a headless system.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">It has a 3.5mm, and I connected speakers to it.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">When I do:</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><div>$ aplay foo.wav</div><div>Playing WAVE 'foo.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo</div></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">It pretends to play the wave file, but no sound comes out from the speakers.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">But aplay says there are no soundcards ...</div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><div>$ aplay -l</div><div>aplay: device_list:277: no soundcards found...</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">According to alsa-info, the machine is:</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><div>Manufacturer: Firebat_Computer</div><div>Product Name: T8_Plus</div><div>Firmware Version: 5.26</div><div>System SKU: T8P-F</div></div></div><div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">And</div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><div>!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA</div><div>!!-----------------------------</div><div><br></div><div> 0 [PCH]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH</div><div> HDA Intel PCH at 0x6001110000 irq 136</div><div> 1 [HID]: USB-Audio - USB Audio and HID</div><div> CSCTEK USB Audio and HID at usb-0000:00:14.0-6, full speed</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system</div><div>!!--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-N PCH High Definition Audio Controller [8086:54c8]</div><div> DeviceName: Onboard - Sound</div></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">So there is a sound card.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">But why is aplay not seeing it?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">Any help with this is really appreciated ...</div><div><br></div></div><div><span class="qt-gmail_signature_prefix">--</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_signature">Khalid M. 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