How to switch sound-drivers, and to which? [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller
- by Anders Martini
System settings/sound does not open, freezes and I have to force close. Speaker symbol with volume control does not open scroll-down menu, and there is no sounds. Many people have problems with Hudson Azalia in Ubuntu, but I found no working solution.
I don't really understand much of this, but here are some more details:
aplay -l :
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
(after running this one, it starts some kind of process that doesn't get any results, and doesn't stop, terminal has to be shut down)
lspci -vnn | grep -iA5 audio:
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device [1002:9902]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:184c]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53
Memory at f0444000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
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00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:184c]
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 54
Memory at f0440000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
It seems to me that I'm currently running hda Intel drivers on my AMD Hudson Azalia soundcard. I can't see what drivers this soundcard uses.
Do I need any additional drivers for my soundcard, and where would I find them?