[EMU10K1 - SB Live! Value [CT4780], playback] No sound at all. Digital output(s/pdif) sb live!emu10k1 does not work

[Frederick Dsouza]

digital output (s/pdif) sb live! emu10k1 does not work. no sound at all

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic-pae 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: dompi98 1524 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dompi98 1524 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: dompi98 1524 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Live'/'SB Live! Value [CT4780] (rev.10, serial:0x80221102) at 0xe8c0, irq 18'
   Mixer name : 'Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 4'
   Components : 'AC97a:43525914'
   Controls : 222
   Simple ctrls : 42
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x8b0'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x8b0 at usb-0000:00:1f.2-1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB046d:08b0'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 3
   Mono: Capture 2 [67%] [50.00dB] [on]
Date: Fri Jun 1 11:12:37 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:Live successful
Symptom_Card: QuickCam 3000 Pro [pwc] - USB Device 0x46d:0x8b0
Symptom_DevicesInUse:
 1524 1524 1524/dev/snd/controlC1: dompi98 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dompi98 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: dompi98 F...m pulseaudio
Symptom_PulsePlaybackTest: PulseAudio playback test failed
Symptom_Type: No sound at all
Title: [EMU10K1 - SB Live! Value [CT4780], playback] No sound at all
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/18/2002
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: Dimension 8200
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA05:bd04/18/2002:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnDimension8200:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rnDimension8200:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dimension 8200
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

[Frederick Dsouza (freddydesouza43)]

digital output (s/pdif) sb live emu10k1 sound does not work at all on ubuntu. i have also downloade edubutu

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[rv (shuihuzhuan-deactivatedaccount)]

Same for me. I had to switch to analog output! (12.04 - amd64)

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

post the pulseaudio log

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt;hb=HEAD

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt;hb=HEAD

Simple mixer control 'SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]

[rv (shuihuzhuan-deactivatedaccount)]

Here is the pulseaudiolog.

I followed the steps described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log. I only had to do a 'sudo killall pulseaudio' instead of 'killall pulseaudio'

During the log, I :
- launched pulseaudio for my session 'LANG=C pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time=1 > ~/pulseverbose.log 2>&1'
- switched from "Analog stereo duplex" to "Stereo digital IEC ..." (don't understand why there's only a digital stereo choice since ubuntu's switch to pulseaudio? It was digital 5.1 before. But that's not the matter here...)
- used the test for speakers (left and right only). I had no sound output.
- switched back to "Analog stereo duplex"
- and killed pulseaudio.

Thanks

[rv (shuihuzhuan-deactivatedaccount)]

PS : I tried booting with another system on an USB disk. I had the same behaviour, so I don't think it's a misconfiguration (or it's on both systems).

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

you have to specify extinct and extout so that the driver won`t create the headphone playback volume and switch if your card does not have any headphone Jack or Drive
Live drive

ports:
  analog-output;output-amplifier-on: Analog Output / Amplifier (priority 9910, available: unknown)
   properties:

  analog-output;output-amplifier-off: Analog Output / No Amplifier (priority 9900, available: unknown)
   properties:

  analog-output-headphones;output-amplifier-on: Headphones / Amplifier (priority 9010, available: unknown)
   properties:

  analog-output-headphones;output-amplifier-off: Headphones / No Amplifier (priority 9000, available: unknown)
   properties:

Module snd-emu10k1
  ------------------

    Module for EMU10K1/EMU10k2 based PCI sound cards.
   * Sound Blaster Live!
   * Sound Blaster PCI 512
   * Emu APS (partially supported)
   * Sound Blaster Audigy

    extin - bitmap of available external inputs for FX8010 (see bellow)
    extout - bitmap of available external outputs for FX8010 (see bellow)
    seq_ports - allocated sequencer ports (4 by default)
    max_synth_voices - limit of voices used for wavetable (64 by default)
    max_buffer_size - specifies the maximum size of wavetable/pcm buffers
                       given in MB unit. Default value is 128.
    enable_ir - enable IR

    This module supports multiple cards and autoprobe.

    Input & Output configurations [extin/extout]
 * Creative Card wo/Digital out [0x0003/0x1f03]
 * Creative Card w/Digital out [0x0003/0x1f0f]
 * Creative Card w/Digital CD in [0x000f/0x1f0f]
 * Creative Card wo/Digital out + LiveDrive [0x3fc3/0x1fc3]
 * Creative Card w/Digital out + LiveDrive [0x3fc3/0x1fcf]
 * Creative Card w/Digital CD in + LiveDrive [0x3fcf/0x1fcf]
 * Creative Card wo/Digital out + Digital I/O 2 [0x0fc3/0x1f0f]
 * Creative Card w/Digital out + Digital I/O 2 [0x0fc3/0x1f0f]
 * Creative Card w/Digital CD in + Digital I/O 2 [0x0fcf/0x1f0f]
        * Creative Card 5.1/w Digital out + LiveDrive [0x3fc3/0x1fff]
 * Creative Card 5.1 (c) 2003 [0x3fc3/0x7cff]
        * Creative Card all ins and outs [0x3fff/0x7fff]

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  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 'Headphone LFE',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',1
  Capabilities: pvolume penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 100
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 100 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 100 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone Center',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Tone',0
  Capabilities: pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [off]
  Front Right: Playback [off]

[rv (shuihuzhuan-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for your help.

I have a 5.1 card with livedrive. I will try "Creative Card 5.1/w Digital out + LiveDrive [0x3fc3/0x1fff]" tonight for the kernel module parameters and check if it works better.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

http://git.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=838672974ec35c9e9eea4f67a2e7206f5cf87c22

not sure the above patch really work for audigy

[rv (shuihuzhuan-deactivatedaccount)]

Ahem-hem,

When I tried last time (see comment #6), I forgot to also switch my external amplifier to digital "DIN" input and not the "default" digital input (cough-cough)... So, yesterday I tried again and the sound worked. The problem I had few monthes ago seems to be gone, but I will still monitor the thing, at least for some time.

I will also try other kernel parameters, if it can restore a 5.1 digital output (instead of stereo).

Thank you for your help and sorry for the noise

PS : it's not an audigy, just a soundblaster live + livedrive (more than 13 years old but still working).

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

do your sb live have digital capture since pulseaudio open IEC958:0 ?

i.e. you may need to define asym if emu10k1 only support digital playback

( 0.050| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Checking for recording on Digital Stereo (IEC958) (iec958-stereo)
( 0.050| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying iec958:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
( 0.050| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open iec958:0

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

http: //git.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=6174c207d21c09017d4c584bf1a03b6d773447a3

http: //git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/conf/cards/EMU10K1.conf

<confdir:pcm/iec958.conf>

EMU10K1.pcm.iec958.0 {

      type asym
      playback.pcm {

      }
      capture.pcm {

     }

[rv (shuihuzhuan-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry we were in vacation.

For comment #13, I can't try digital capture as I don't have digital devices anymore for input.

However, the bug came back again. Yesterday my wife had no digital sound output anymore, so I switched back to analog. It may be a transient hardware problem?
I will try to further investigate when I can access the computer.

[Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen)]

After upgrading to Kubuntu 12.04 LTS the SPDIF output broke again (it seems to break at every upgrade). I used gnome-alsamixer to a) deselect IEC958 Optical Raw and b) select SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack, and got sound working again.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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