I just acquired an Inspiron 5410 AIO (All In One) with AMD processor and the AMD Family 17h (models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller. Once the GUI loads, the computer sets the speaker volume to 100% and plays screeching computer noises for about 3 seconds.
Once I login to my profile and use pavucontrol, I can set the output of the "Family 17h (models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller to “Analog Stereo Output”. This allows audio to come out of the speakers normally.I’m assuming the screeching is coming from the fact that pulse audio hasn’t been started yet (or has been started by lightdm) to play the cute login sounds. But I can’t tolerate the noise every time this thing boots.
Ideas on how to get the max volume screeching to stop?
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It would be helpful if you mention which distro you are facing the issue in.
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The distro is Linuxmint-21.3-cinnamon-64bit
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First reaction would be
Hardware drivers
Launch Menu ‣ Administration ‣ Driver Manager
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/drivers.html
Then do system update and restart.
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Thank’s for the answer, but for the moment I have desinstall Mint on the Dell computer and I use my old computer since this problem is solved so I cannot launch menu/administration/driver manager etc…
Does the sound appear with windows ?
No with windows (11) everything is all right.
Ok
Its a setting after install of mint
Do you want to try again or not ?
Mint comes in several flavours mate, cinnamon or lmde also in 64 or 32 bit
If you want to go again, please let us know whhich version, happy to work with you on a solution rather than having to put up with windows !
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I have try Mint Cinnamon 18.0, then Mint Cinnamon 21.1, and then Mint 21.3 Cinnamon - Edge, and for the moment I want be sure before I try again there is someone who have complete the install without any issue on this Dell Inspiron 5410 AIO (All In One) with AMD processor and the AMD Family 17h (models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller, thank You for the answer.
Hi Gil Geyer,
When you run the Linux Mint live distro, do you also hear noise from the speakers?
Jorge
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Yes its the same sound probably because off the sound card they have a problem with Linux or Mint especialy
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Hi Gil,
Thanks for your reply
I have the same opinion as Paul:
Out of curiosity, what do we get with the following command?
inxi -A | grep driver
Jorge
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Hi everybody!
I have the same problem.
Yet installed Linux Mint 22 on this Dell machine. Everything good on Windows 11. Driver Manager doesn’t show any drivers available.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Hi @Christian_Damasco ,
If you have a new Mint install, all the drivers required by your computer should be loaded,
You can check what drivers are loaded by typing lsmod at a terminal command line.
You can see all the drivers that Mint has by looking in /lib/modules/... … any driver present there can be loaded with the modprobe command.
If you require a proprietary driver ( eg for an nvidia graphics card) you need the instructions that come with that driver.
I have no idea what Mint Driver Manager is supposed to do. Maybe it is malfunctioning. I would just ignore it and use the CLI commands.
In general Linux does not require importing any drivers, they are all included in the install, and those needed are automatically loaded. There are exceptions to that and we mostly deal with those using CLI commands.
Can you tell us what drivers you think you may need… ie is your Mint functioning properly or are there issues?
Regards
Neville
UPDATE
I had a look at driver manager here
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/drivers.html
It seems it only deals with proprietary addon drivers like nvidia.
If yours lists nothing, I would suggest that is because you do not need any external drivers…
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Hi @nevj , thanks for your feedback.
I’m sure drivers are not the problem, but I read about it in the thread. Nothing, for me, suggests a driver malfunction.
I have no other ideas.
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When you do a clean install of mint you are asked if you want to install the drivers for sound, mint then makes a list and does that as part of the process. If you miss that stage on things like youtube you have no sound so have to 8nstall them as suggested.
Failing that in the bottom right of your screen you have a clipboard icon, that takes you to system info (also available in control panel) that also lets you install missing sound modules which then requires a restart to function.
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After Mint is installed a “Welcome” screen will come up. One item listed on it is Driver Management. If that option is selected Mint will check “to see if it (Mint) recommends any additional drivers for your computer”.
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Thanks Howard, you are the Mint expert.
That is a really neat way to help beginners. Missing drivers can cause all sorts of issues. I wonder what it would say in the case where one has a brand new computer and some driver is not yet available for Linux.? It might even give a helpful message.
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