Hi, It seems this motherboard has Realtek ALC887-VD2 audio codec. Check mb's docs if it's true and then google for drivers/advise for Ubuntu. Google brings to me this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2209364 You may find some others as well.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Patrick Elliott-Brennan < m...@elliott-brennan.id.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > My new machine has an ASUS motherboard: > > H170M-E D3 > > > and an AMD Radeon R7 360 video card. > > > I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 > > > I am getting no sound through the motherboard's onboard sound card. > > I get sound over HDMI and fortunately my monitor has an HDMI port AND > built in speakers. However these are no-where near as good as my > desktop speakers. > > The only option in the BIOS is HD Audio Controller (enable/disable). > However nothing I change here has any effect. > > In the GUI the onboard sound is greyed out. Alsamixer shows HDMI sound > only. The desktop GUI shows only HDMI. > > aplay -l shows only the HDMI sound. > > I have tried a number of things including > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I have added > > snd_hda_intel > > and adding a line in GRUB > radeon.audio=1 and using 0 as well. > > I have found another possible solution here: > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ > > Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters > > Option: radeon.audio > Value:: 0,1 > Default Value: 0 > Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio > > My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to > add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what? > > Any help would be most appreciated. Without the onboard sound card I'm > stuck with the crappy monitor speakers and cannot use headphones nor > use a microphone for video conferencing etc. > > Regards, > > Patrick > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- http://www.dataparksearch.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
