no sound fiesty fawn HDA ATI sigmatel stac9200

[johntkucz]

Okay, I've been trying to get sound to work on my mx3701 laptop, but need help figuring out exactly what my sound card, manufacturer and chipset are, and some terminology defined before I can decipher out what the problem is and how to fix it for my system.

I followed:
e http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Sound

to the key and plugged in "ref" (instead of 3stack) which was listed under the alsa-driver configuration text under the STAC9200 model, was that right? When I

tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9200

cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 260534 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1038 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 3 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 317254 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 17696 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 22927 31170 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb3
17: 13495 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0, HDA Intel
21: 1407 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 260271 260270
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

dmesg (the solution could be in here)
17
[ 22.420000] si3054: cannot initialize. EXT MID = 0000
[ 22.504000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 22.788000] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx
[ 27.480000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[ 27.484000] SCSI device sde: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
[ 27.484000] sde: Write Protect is off
[ 27.484000] sde: Mode Sense: 2a 00 00 00
[ 27.484000] sde: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 27.484000] SCSI device sde: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
[ 27.484000] sde: Write Protect is off
[ 27.484000] sde: Mode Sense: 2a 00 00 00
[ 27.484000] sde: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 27.484000] sde: sde1
[ 27.500000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde
[ 27.500000] SCSI device sdf: 1994751 512-byte hdwr sectors (1021 MB)
[ 27.500000] sdf: Write Protect is off
[ 27.500000] sdf: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[ 27.500000] sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 27.500000] SCSI device sdf: 1994751 512-byte hdwr sectors (1021 MB)
[ 27.500000] sdf: Write Protect is off
[ 27.500000] sdf: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[ 27.500000] sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 27.500000] sdf: sdf1
[ 27.504000] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdf
[ 27.996000] fuse init (API version 7.
[ 28.084000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 28.132000] Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/2f2bc714-21c9-49ec-a278-72a74c8f8474. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951856k
[ 28.312000] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
[ 28.516000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 28.516000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 38.672000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 47.580000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 47.580000] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
[ 47.580000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 54.188000] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input5
[ 54.188000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 54.188000] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input6
[ 54.188000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 54.188000] input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input7
[ 54.188000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 54.188000] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input8
[ 54.192000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[ 54.372000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[ 54.420000] Using specific hotkey driver
[ 54.528000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[ 54.588000] No dock devices found.
[ 54.688000] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
[ 54.836000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[ 70.064000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 70.716000] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 70.964000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.2 disabled
[ 70.996000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 71.972000] si3054: cannot initialize. EXT MID = 0000
[ 72.172000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 72.172000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 72.172000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 72.172000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 72.212000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 72.212000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 72.308000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 72.308000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 72.308000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 75.076000] hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instea

amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 15
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture Mux',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 4
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Caller ID',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Front Mic'
Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Off-hook',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]

asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
SB

kooz@kooz-laptop:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf~/.asoundrc*
cat: /etc/asound.conf~/.asoundrc*: No such file or directory

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

So I assumed stac9200 was right.

lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: d0000000-d00fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d0504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d0505000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d0506000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
Memory at d0507000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at d0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0300000-f03fffff

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 10
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at d0020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0318
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

08:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: <access denied>

In alsamixer I see 10 columns: Master, PCM, LFE (recently turned on after following e http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Sound), IEC958, Three Capture columns, Caller I, Input So, Off-hook.

Call I and Off-hook are muted, I have to manually unmute Master and LFE after every reboot.

Could some of those sound channels be clashing? Should I leave IEC958 off? What IS IEC958, PCM, and LFE?

At the top it says:
HDA ATI SB
SigmaTel STAC9200 for all those 10 channels. What does THAT mean? Do I have an ATI manufacturer or an snd-hda-intel manufactuer? What's the different between those two? Also, is SigmaTel the model (is that synonymous with chipset?) of the ATI soundcard?

Please help! Answering some of these questions will be a step in solving this problem for sure!

You can't mend the "ear" (sound) if you don't know how to identify the ossicles, and whatnot (okay, obscure anatomical reference, but the point is you need to know the parts to fix the whole in this case).

Also, what is up with sound pref. panel? The Default Mixer Tracks have options HDA ATI SB (Alsa mixer) and SigmaTel STAC9200 (OSS Mixer), then for sound events, Music and movies, and audio conferencing, it's set at ALSA, but have tried autodetect, and has STAC92xx Analog and digital as options, what should those be set at?

-- John
__________________

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

You might find this helpful - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems . If you feel that this is a bug then add the requirements listed there if any are missing from your initial comment. If you just have questions and this is more of a support request please use https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ .

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

okay, you're obviously just sending off that advice by defualt, without really scrutinizing my problem because all the information I just posted CAME FROM the manual sound information check on the link you just proposed? I know you've got lots of bugs to fix, but Are you even looking at the problem, or just dishing off generic advice at random? Your lack of specificity, could only mean the latter. NO, THIS IS A BUG. I've been trying to fix this for days, no other things have helped, so I'm trying to get all the information I can.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

#

    *

   I don't understand this...Where is menu,soundandvideo volumen control? I have the sound icon that has a +/- bar you can raise and lower and "Sound" under Preferences, under system.

   Locating the volume controls:
          o

            Ubuntu: these controls are not the "sound" in preferences. Right click on panel; add to panel; volume controls; speaker icon appears on panel; left click on icon; preferences
          o

            Ubuntu 7.04: sound volume is also accessible from Menu->Sound&Video->Volume Control
          o

            Kubuntu: Alt-F2: kmix <enter>.

#

Check that your switches are set correctly (for instance that if you use the analog output the analog switch is set ON or that the digital or S/PDIF switch is set OFF).

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

If you double click on the sound / speaker icon it will bring up the preferences. I have updated that wiki page appropriately.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

okay, that's a helpful clarification. This new sound preferences file is the GUI equivalent of the CSI alsamixer

I don't know what wikipage you were talking about?

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Sound

?

There's an enormous amount of information on that page, so i'm assuming you meant the sound page? But what exactly was changed?

That's dandy, but I couldn't find the change.

I clarified the previously ambiguous directions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

also,
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Sound
suggest a change to

snd-hda-intel

is it that or

snd-intel-hda?

or interchaneable? I've seen both used.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

When I try to change my
 gedit /etc/asound.conf

I get this

ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 48Khz, stereo,16bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 48Khz, stereo,16bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal.
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit s...

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please read http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/index.php?task=support and tell me the URL of the paste generated by the alsa-info.sh script linked from that page. I need the codec info specifically.

Further, your "bug report" could use some trimming. I suspect the reason Brian mentioned answers.LP is because this "bug report" asks so many questions. The only issue that is remotely related to a "bug" is the lack of sound by default.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

all of those questions were an attempt to solve the bug: "no sound by default", which is the purpose of this entire post: solve the no sound by default bug.

EVeryone else was asking questions I already tried, so solving it myself (and gathering the necessary facts) seemed like the best solution.

The purpose of the questions were to solve the bug. I had been asked a ridiculously absurd number of things to post and no one else was asking those questions, so I posted them.

This the most ridiculous thing. I f$$@ing hate Ubuntu now. Everythnig -- the video, the sound -- that you try to use never works, after that a torturing process of terminal prompts and ridiculous apt-gets insues. I can't complain to anyone because no one is to blame and trying their best, but the copious number of bugs in this OS is wretchedly frustrating to me.

Anyways,

alsa-info.sh still says uploading information to www.pastebin.ca.
It seems to be frozen.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

This by the way IS a definite, HUGE bug. No one better be classifying this NOT as a bug just because questions were asked. Questions and a bug report are not mutually exclusive, anyone who thinks they are probably doesn't know the first thing about problem solving.

How long does also-info.sh take? Even with the --no-upload argument, it's still spinning the "/" forever.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

While this is incrdibly frustrating. Thanks a ton for the support and for actually assigning this bug to a team (Audio Team), "sounds like" it's in good hand! We'll see.

The alsa-info.sh site doesn't specify where to load the script, which may be why it's having some problems???

By the way, I think most of the informatio nfrom the alsa-info.sh script, I already included in bulk, in my previous posts.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

The script defaults to pastebin.ca. This third-party script is developed and used in #alsa/Freenode. If you want something resembling unofficial, realtime assistance, join that channel now and ask for me.

The --debug parameter to the script stores the information in a file in /tmp. The reason we need you to use the script is to gather an entire snapshot. If the script is failing to upload the file, simply copy and paste the contents of the file in /tmp to some pastebin, then state the URL here.

Keep in mind that no one's being paid to assist you, and I personally am traveling cross-country ATM. I will attempt to assist you as best I can given the circumstances, but a bit of patience will go a long way.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

nope, the script's not happening, tried it in home folder and desktop with ./alsa-info.sh

You don't need it really, though. I manually posted about every sound information call your could run. Anything specfic? And I'll run it in terminal.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

`cat /proc/asound/card0/codec*`

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

and `lspci -nv`

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

thanks for being flexible with the alsa-info not being in the typical (alsa-info.sh) format because of the script not working. The information (i'm assuming) is hte same, though.

lspci -nv
00:00.0 0600: 1002:5a31 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 0604: 1002:5a3f (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
        Memory behind bridge: d0000000-d00fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:04.0 0604: 1002:5a36 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
        Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:05.0 0604: 1002:5a37 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4374 (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at d0504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4375 (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at d0505000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4373 (rev 80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at d0506000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4372 (rev 83)
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
        I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
        Memory at d0507000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 0101: 1002:4376 (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.2 0403: 1002:437b (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at d0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.3 0601: 1002:4377 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 107b:0318
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 0604: 1002:4371 (rev 80) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
        Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f02fffff
        Prefetchable mem...

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

Dear Chen,

What is cross-country ATM? Also, Im fully aware that ubuntu is "humanity of others", no one gets paid, everything is free -- FSF, GNU, etc. I LOVE That mantra and for that reason -- despite all the infuriating input/output erros when I read from any disk, sound bugs, video errors, and the other thousands of bugs I'm encountering, I've been staying onboard as long as I have been. Also, the free software seems to have a more appealing interface because it can pick and choose best of both worlds (from mac and/or windows) without the competitive, profit factor. I love mac, windows was more widespread, but the Ubuntu "ideology" is the best. Hopefully it's ideology will make it practically useable in time. I've strongly considered "signing off" of it and reverting back to windows and/or mac, but if I get all the bugs fixed, it will, by default be far better than mac OS and/or windows OS combined simply because of its altruistic backbone.

Now, how do I get on the #alsa/Freenode channel ?? Is that IRC?

I've been very patient. INCREDIBLY patient. Some how the patience continues.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

Ubuntu is definitely opening up (forcing the user) all those interesesting things I've wanted to solidify in knowledge (directory tree, permissions, unix file commands, CSI, now IRC...:)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

SSID 0x107b0318 may well need the model=ref parameter, but I've no access to one locally to verify. If the modem is being probed wrongly (which is possible given the AZX_MAX_CODECS change in 2.6.20-16.28), you should use the probe_mask parameter, e.g., `sudo modprobe -r snd-hda-intel && sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel probe_mask=8 model=ref`.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Yes, #alsa/Freenode refers to irc.freenode.net and the #alsa channel (ATM == at the moment). You can use Applications> Internet> Gaim Internet Messenger.

[johntkucz (johntkucz)]

okay, I tried all of those suggestions and updates and after an extensive #alsa/Freenode conversation with Chen, the sound still doesn't work.

A more formal write-up of this same identical bug is at

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3189

[Ewan Dunbar (ewan-dunbar)]

same problem, also (?) on a gateway with 1002:437b. for <a href="http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2007-April/000587.html">this thread on the alsa-dev list</a> is informative - imho I'm doubtful of the suggestion contained inside to investigate the problems on a vendor by vendor basis, since I believe a variety of vendors' cards (toshiba, gateway, etc) were reported working ok in 2.6.17 and broken suddenly in 2.6.20. hope the link helps. -ewan

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Beginning with the Hardy Heron 8.04 development cycle, all open Ubuntu kernel bugs need to be reported against the "linux" kernel package. We are automatically migrating this bug to the new "linux" package. However, development has already began for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. It would be helpful if you could test the upcoming release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . If the issue still exists, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux" task from "Incomplete" to "New". We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Thanks!

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete a while ago and has not had any feedback to provide the requested information. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the latest Karmic 9.10 Alpha release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.