No sound on internal speaker

Nicolas Martin <nico.martin@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:13:59 +0200

Hi,

I have a Lenovo P520 workstation with an internal speaker on which I'd like to play sound.
OS installed is RHEL 7U6 with alsa 1.1.6

the internal speaker is enabled in BIOS; however I don't have any sound output on it.

The only way to have sound is to plug an external speaker.

If I load the module snd-pcsp, there is an additional card that appears that I can use to play sound on the internal speaker, although the sound quality is very poor (crackling).

I don't really know where to dig concerning this issue; whether it's a bug with the kernel module or alsa; I'd appreciate some guidance.

The audio chipset (not using the Nvidia output):
 # lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
65:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Below the output of aplay -l and aplay -L:
# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC662 rev3 Analog [ALC662 rev3 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 4: ALC233 Analog [ALC233 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    Front speakers
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 2
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 3
    HDMI Audio Output

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