How To Fix No Sound in Ubuntu And Linux Mint

In this guide, we will show you how to fix the problem of ubuntu/mint no sound after the installation with some methods.

Introduction

Hi guys, We will talk about one of the most common problems you may faced in your Ubuntu system which is that there is no sound after installing the Ubuntu system.

Sound Check

First, you have to check the audio related hardware information to start fixing the sound issue.

You can achieve that by the steps below:

• Install inxi tool

sudo apt install inxi

• Then check the audio information with running the following command:

inxi -SMA

From above screenshot, check audio section, it tells you info about the device and the sound is served with Alsa.

Fix output in sound settings

• Go to sound settings
• If you find you have practically nothing in the sound settings except a dummy output. It means that your sound card is not even recognized.
• So run this command to fix the problem:

sudo alsa force-reload
reboot

• The output should be like that, that the output device will be recognized.

Fix no sound in Ubuntu

• If the above solution did not fix the problem, try reinstall Alsa and Pulse audio

apt-get install --reinstall alsa-base pulseaudio

• Force reload Alsa

sudo alsa force-reload

• Restart and check the sound again.

• Also, try starting Pulseaudio

 pulseaudio --start

• Try remove old Pulseaudio config

• Rename the directory named pulse here

mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/old_pulse

• Reboot the system

Fix no sound in Ubuntu with alsamixer

• Open alsamixer

alsamixer

You will see a screen like this

Check if the speakers or the master audio output is muted .

MM means mute .

OO means unmute.

Exit the screen using Esc key.

If you have more than one sound card. you need to specify the sound card number, so refer to the inxi output as follows

alsamixer -c 1

Finally, you can try to fix the issue with no audio in ubuntu with Speed dispatcher

• Speed dispatcher allows your system to convert text to speech. Sometimes, it may bring your audio back with editing speech-dispatcher file by using the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher

Then change RUN=yes to RUN=no.

• Reboot.

Conclusion

That’s it

In this guide, we illustrated how to fix No Sound in Ubuntu And Linux Mint.

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