Sunday, April 24, 2016

sound - Only HDMI audio since installing Nvidia card: onboard audio device has disappeared


I replaced my graphics card with an Nvidia GT620. However, when I rebooted with the new card, my onboard Intel audio device disappeared completely - does not even appear in lshw.


Now the only audio output is the HDMI audio on the Nvidia card, which is annoying as my monitor has speakers but no headphone jack.


How can I make the HDMI audio device go away, and get back my onboard audio?


Sound Settings Screenshot


Sound-related stanza in lshw:


       *-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: GF108 High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.1
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:60 memory:fccfc000-fccfffff

Output of "aplay -l":


**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Output of sudo lspci | grep Aud


02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)


The cause of the problem was that the Onboard Audio was set to "Auto" in the BIOS: meaning when the BIOS detected the HDMI audio controller, it disabled Onboard Audio.


Setting Onboard Audio to "On" caused the Onboard Audio controller to reappear in Ubuntu alongside the HDMI Audio.


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