My laptop’s internal audio chip is damaged. I use a usb audio device which is working fine. I bought a HDMI to VGA with audio adapter. The display is working fine but no audio output from the adapter. Plz help me .
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Device [USB PnP Sound Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Great. This means the audio subsystem is working correctly, so that doesn’t need to be changed or reconfigured in any way.
Which one?
How have you connected and configured it? Are you still using the USB adapter at the same time? How is this HDMI adapter supposed to work?
What is this chip, and how is it connected to the HDMI output? If the HDMI audio relies on that damaged internal chip then any adapter using that chip won’t work.
Begging for help is completely unnecessary. This can also make a number of people avoid the thread as it normally indicates someone who wants a copy-paste answer rather than someone who is willing to help solve the problem.
the HDMI to VGA adapter is a generic one with audio output.
LIke this
I only use the USB audio device because HDMI audio is not working. it doesn’t even show up in the pulse volume control configuration area.
It used to work before. now there is no option to select HDMI audio.
I even reinstalled endeavour OS but no use.
FYI: the audio is working in windows even now.
The audio jack in my laptop is not working. thats why i said the internal audio chip is not working.
thanks.
green@green-satellitel740 ~]$ aplay -lL
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front:CARD=PCH
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surround21:CARD=PCH
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH
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surround71:CARD=PCH
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usbstream:CARD=PCH
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
OK, so this is likely to be the actual issue rather than the adapter not working.
To get some information about your system can you paste the output of inxi -Faz (as text, ideally within a code fence)?
What has changed since then?
[green@green-satellitel740 ~]$ inxi -Faz
System:
Kernel: 5.16.4-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=6f062846-665c-4ea4-b2d8-ff852f4a792f rw quiet loglevel=3
nowatchdog nvme_load=YES
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1
vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite L740 v: PSK0YL-0FW00P
serial:
Mobo: Intel model: N/A serial: BIOS: INSYDE v: 2.60
date: 06/26/2012
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i3-2350M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1917 high: 2295 min/max: 800/2300 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2295 2: 2241 3: 1537
4: 1597 bogomips: 18364
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Toshiba driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: HDMI1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 85 size: 410x230mm (16.1x9.1")
diag: 470mm (18.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
v: 3.3 Mesa 21.3.5 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Toshiba driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.4-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.44 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:002b class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet vendor: Toshiba
driver: atl1c v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:2062
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR3011 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-1.6:4 chip-ID: 0cf3:3005 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: not found
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.02 TiB used: 14.97 GiB (1.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kodak model: X150 120GB
size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: rev: 61.3 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial:
rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 111.79 GiB size: 109.47 GiB (97.93%)
used: 14.97 GiB (13.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 82.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 224 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Memory: 5.74 GiB
used: 1.74 GiB (30.3%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 986 lib: 238 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.12
I haven’t changed any settings at all. I am a beginner in linux , so i don’t really mess with the system. Just use it for media consumption. It just suddenly stopped working one day.
If you install and run pavucontrol (“PulseAudio Volume Control”, yes it works fine for PipeWire) and look under the Configuration tab, make sure the HDMI output is enabled.
The problem is there is no HDMI option in the configuration tab anymore. It used to have it before but it disappeared. it says “No cards available for configuration”
Not even the working USB adapter?
The usb adapter shows up.
OK, so the internal audio chip isn’t showing up? That will likely be why there’s no HDMI output showing. The question is why…
Could you try kernel-lts and see if that makes any difference?
Tried all four kernel available in AKM but same issue.
I also tried mx-linux and ubuntu through live-usb they didn’t show the audio device as well. But when i boot to windows it works just fine.
The link you posted is not the same. It’s only for video, not audio.
You haven’t clearly answered how do you connect your audio, hardware-wise. Do you connect some cable somewhere and where?
I am surprised you are saying that audio is working in Windows. How? The internal audio is broken. If you don’t use the USB audio, then how do you connect audio output to the speakers? Show us a photo.
Please, verify that audio HDMI is working in Windows and this is all a misunderstanding.
PS.: I have used this kind of adapter. Not all of them provide audio and not all of which provide audio do it right. The specific specifications hw is much more expensive than most similar adapters.
My 3mm audio jack in my laptop doesn’t work.A chip near the jack seems to be shorted and damaged. I use USB audio now. But i want to use the HDMI to VGA adapter with audio i bought .
The 3mm also doesn’t work in windows. It is definitely damaged. The audio is working through the HDMI to VGA adapter in windows but not in linux.
Yes in windows the adapter is working fine with audio.
Yes, i agree. but the adapter was working with audio in endeavourOS when i first bought it . and suddenly one day the HDMI audio option vanished from the pulseaudio volume control configuration tab.
Then it seems you belong to the famous group of Proudly Affected by Pipewire Users!
I can only suggest troubleshooting (read logs, RTFM and test), though I can’t help with pipewire. Maybe after reading feedback from all the recently affected users’ topics, I may start understanding… 
I am starting to suspect the same.