I Screwed Up My Audio Drivers. Please Help

I was playing around trying to get my mixer to do something that it is incapable of doing. In this process I thought my realtech audio drivers were out of date so I downloaded the asla drivers for it.

Thats where the story turns bad for me. I am guessing during the configure portion of compiling wiped out everything, and failed to install.

I have went back to USB audio out of my mixer (which was working before I messed up) but there is absolutely nothing for input or output.

PLEASE HELP!! I dont know what to include in this post to help. I am sending my lsmod info. There is no snd_ loaded in it. I have just switched from windows to linux. I am running ubuntu 18.04.

Module Size Used by
joydev 24576 0
nls_iso8859_1 16384 1
intel_rapl 20480 0
x86_pkg_temp_thermal 16384 0
intel_powerclamp 16384 0
coretemp 16384 0
kvm_intel 212992 0
kvm 598016 1 kvm_intel
irqbypass 16384 1 kvm
crct10dif_pclmul 16384 0
crc32_pclmul 16384 0
ghash_clmulni_intel 16384 0
pcbc 16384 0
aesni_intel 188416 0
mxm_wmi 16384 0
aes_x86_64 20480 1 aesni_intel
crypto_simd 16384 1 aesni_intel
glue_helper 16384 1 aesni_intel
cryptd 24576 3 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel
intel_cstate 20480 0
intel_rapl_perf 16384 0
input_leds 16384 0
lpc_ich 24576 0
mei_me 40960 0
mei 90112 1 mei_me
shpchp 36864 0
nvidia_uvm 757760 0
wmi 24576 1 mxm_wmi
mac_hid 16384 0
intel_smartconnect 16384 0
acpi_pad 180224 0
sch_fq_codel 20480 3
parport_pc 36864 0
ppdev 20480 0
lp 20480 0
parport 49152 3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev
ip_tables 28672 0
x_tables 40960 1 ip_tables
autofs4 40960 2
dm_mirror 24576 0
dm_region_hash 20480 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 20480 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
hid_generic 16384 0
usbhid 49152 0
hid 118784 4 hid_generic,usbhid
nvidia_drm 40960 2
nvidia_modeset 1110016 10 nvidia_drm
nvidia 14340096 867 nvidia_modeset,nvidia_uvm
drm_kms_helper 172032 1 nvidia_drm
syscopyarea 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
sysfillrect 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
sysimgblt 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
fb_sys_fops 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
drm 401408 5 nvidia_drm,drm_kms_helper
e1000e 249856 0
ipmi_devintf 20480 0
ahci 36864 2
r8169 86016 0
libahci 32768 1 ahci
ptp 20480 1 e1000e
mii 16384 1 r8169
pps_core 20480 1 ptp
ipmi_msghandler 53248 2 nvidia,ipmi_devintf
video 45056 0

So, unless you blacklisted something, a kernel reinstall and firmware reinstall will fix this.

 sudo dpkg --reconfigure <deb package>

or if that scares you

 sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install <deb package> 

If you are running a custom kernel, just go back to the distro provided at boot.

Linux has driver snd_hda_intel for Realtek and other onboard audio devices

hwinfo --sound or alsa-info.sh would show audio system information

But likely will confirm no snd_hda_intel driver loaded for devices that need it

You can probably get information about working audio configuration by booting from a Live USB Linux ISO

Suggest Reinstall of ALSA may get it working again, but may need some related packages reinstalled too