19th November 2024, 1 min read

snd_hda_intel: no codecs initialized

Problem at hand: No sound on my loudspeakers.

Error message during login and booting:

Nov 19 10:53:19 chieftec kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:08:00.6: Codec #0 probe error; disabling it...
Nov 19 10:53:19 chieftec kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:08:00.6: no codecs initialized

Solution: Add below three lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1
options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1
options snd-hda-intel model=basic

On my machine this file did not exist previously.

I found this solution here: [SOLVED]snd_hda_intel: no codecs found - no sound by user broncosman.

Though, even after above change there are still quite a number of messages in the log:

Nov 21 08:39:56 chieftec kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:08:00.1: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1f0500
Nov 21 08:39:56 chieftec kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:08:00.1: spurious response 0x200:0x0, last cmd=0x970740
Nov 21 08:39:56 chieftec kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:08:00.1: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x377200