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I have no sound on my ThinkBook 14S-IWL Laptop running Ubuntu 22.04.1 anymore.

I have tried everything: Rebooting, regular shutdown, apt-update, updating GRUB, trying to install pipewire/wireplumber/pipewire-session-media and see if that works, no luck.

$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: Generic Digital [Generic Digital]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ cat /proc/asound/modules

0 snd_hda_intel

$ lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 30) (prog-if 80)
Subsystem: Lenovo Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at c131c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at c1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl

$ systemctl --user status pipewire-session-manager.service

Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of pipewire-session-manager.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl --user daemon-reload' to reload units.
○ pipewire-session-manager.service
     Loaded: error (Reason: Unit pipewire-session-manager.service failed to load properly, please adjust/correct and reload service manager: File exists)
     Active: inactive (dead)

Aug 11 08:58:40 thinkbook systemd[2609]: pipewire-session-manager.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit pipewire-session-manager.service failed to load properly, please adjust/correct and reload service manager: File exists
Aug 11 19:27:44 thinkbook systemd[2609]: pipewire-session-manager.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit pipewire-session-manager.service failed to load properly, please adjust/correct and reload service manager: File exists

$ systemctl --user daemon-reload

Does seemingly nothing. The terminal doesn't complain but I also still do not have audio.

$ pactl info | grep '^Server Name'

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.48)

$ aplay -l | grep HDMI

Returns nothing.

Edit: After plugging my 3.5mm Headphones into the headphone jack and rebooting, I get sound over the headphones. But if I unplug the headphones, I get no sound.

Image of Sound Output Devices in Settings

Image of Sound Output Devices in Volume Control

Edit 2: Well now I do not have sound anymore. I have been updating & upgrading Ubuntu but still no fix.

Khyta
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  • Try booting with the previous kernel. – ChanganAuto Aug 11 '22 at 19:56
  • @ChanganAuto that did not work. Booting into 5.10.04-43 instead of 5.10.04-46 does not help. – Khyta Aug 19 '22 at 15:35
  • I had the same problem with a Asus Zenbook UX463F since the 22.04 upgrade and this worked for me : https://www.linux.org/threads/solved-asus-zenbook-15-ux534f-realtek-hd-audio-problem.27384/post-94479 – magtweezers Oct 03 '22 at 15:44

5 Answers5

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I had the exact same issue, for which I found a solution from No sound output devices listed after upgrade from 21.10 to 22.04 :

sudo touch /usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio
systemctl --user restart pipewire-session-manager

(credits go to https://askubuntu.com/users/1156299/adam)

Mossroy
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I had the same error after upgrading. For me a temporary solution was to run

$ systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse

after every boot. Finally I found that /usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d was missing

$ ls -ld /usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d': No such file or directory

and

$ sudo apt --reinstall install pipewire-media-session

solved that for me. Some reports in the Internet say you might want to create this directory before running the reinstall (which IMHO might not be needed)

Edit: Although audio worked for me after this, the error message

mod.rt: could not set nice-level to -11: Permission denied

remained and finally I also had to append

@audio   -  nice     -20

to /etc/security/limits.conf (as seen here) to remove any error messages from the log. (reinstalling rtkit did not work for me either)

I checked the logs to be clean with:

journalctl -b 0 --user-unit=pipewire --user-unit=pipewire-pulse --user-unit=pipewire-media-session --user-unit=init.scope
Florian Schüller
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I had a similar error after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Neither the internal speakers nor the internal microphone were working and also external devices did not work.

What worked for me

I could make the speakers work by installing firmware-sof-signed:

sudo apt install firmware-sof-signed

And I could get the microphone working again by installing alsa-ucm-conf (from https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2479854&p=14127685#post14127685, Post #7):

sudo apt install alsa-ucm-conf

I also tried a lot of other things (see below). Although I was always careful to revert changes I made when it turned out that they did not work, I'm not absolutely sure if the above is sufficient or whether it only works in combination with some other things I tried.

System Information

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i 15 (15IMH05)

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-35-generic

Audio Codecs:

Codec: Nvidia GPU 94 HDMI/DP
Codec: Realtek ALC287
Codec: Intel Kabylake HDMI

Things I tried that made my speakers work but not the microphone

Things I tried that did not work for me

andthum
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For me, only reinstalling pipewire-media-session solved the problem:

sudo apt --reinstall install pipewire-media-session
r_agha_m
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Please try to clean up headphones socket from dirty It may think that that outside headphones connected

konstantin shevchenko
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