drivers - Dell Precision 7510 Loses sound after upgrade from 14.04 (OEM) to 16.04 - Ask Ubuntu


so got dell precision 7510 yesterday, , proceeded upgrade 14.04 16.04 i'd rather on latest release. went fine except fact system not detect sound card anymore. if go system settings > sound, there empty box outputs should detected. lspci reveals @ least 2 devices should show up:

audio device: nvidia corporation device 0fbc (rev a1) audio device: intel corporation sunrise point-h hd audio (rev 31) 

i believe intel device 1 need working again.

under additional drivers, noticed missing before well, though open source drivers in use on system (except gpu).

i'd rather not go 14.04 if possible, , i'd not want stay on release (i'd rather machine last me more 3 years left of support). it's been while since i've used ubuntu i'd appreciate of go here. @ moment i'm running sound through h4n via usb, i'd rather not have long term.

edit: may affected bug machine using same chipset: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1616079

( first real shutdown (not reboot) if not done)
seems intel soundcard 2nd one.
select it, install , launch pavucontrol (pulseaudio volume),
go "output devices" tab,
click green button "set fallback" near intel soundcard
(in case, should in bottom)
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as fails, in case problem solved recently, can try latest alsa driver ubuntu ( daily build snapshots, see here) :
paste , run successively 3 commands in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install dkms oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms
reboot

as failed too, may alsa ok not pulseaudio:
check alsamixer:
run alsamixer in maximized terminal, use f6 select intel soundcard : see more faders "line out"? anyway, tweak volumes using left/right arrows scroll thru faders, up/down set each fader levels (set max test) , m key mute/unmute (unmute all)

edit: reset pulseaudio configuration: jackd sound server has sound working, , jackd use underlaying alsa layer, alsa ok problem comes pulseaudio (which sound server using underlaying alsa jackd do) . resetting pulseaudio config current user can done running in terminal:

mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulseold
then
killall pulseaudio
pulseaudio restart creating new config.
check if have tweak pulseaudio config in /etc/pulse

edit2 : restore alsa volume @ startup :
sudo alsactl store , sudo alsactl store 1 when volumes ok . 2nd command may return error if have no second soundcard .
alsactl restore , alsactl restore 1 done @ startup.


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