PCI/internal sound card not detected

[rodrigomorante]

Sound was disabled after upgrading from 12.04. Today I did a clean 12.10 install, to no avail. The only device listed is "Dummy Output". Added here some outputs that seem to be relevant:

For "aplay -l":

aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...

For "cat /proc/asound/cards":
--- no soundcards ---

For "lspci -v | grep -A 6 Audio":

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 01de
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
 Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

For "lsb_release -rd":

Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Date: Mon Nov 5 22:27:10 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-05 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: PCI/internal sound card not detected
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/28/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.4.0
dmi.board.name: 0DN075
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.4.0:bd07/28/2007:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStation390:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0DN075:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation 390
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

[ 9.978002] IP: [<c12d361d>] strncpy+0x1d/0x40
[ 9.978070] *pdpt = 00000000369cb001 *pde = 0000000000000000
[ 9.978163] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 9.978254] Modules linked in: i82975x_edac(+) dcdbas edac_core mac_hid ppdev parport_pc lp parport hid_generic usbhid hid uas usb_storage tg3
[ 9.978693]
[ 9.978723] Pid: 445, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 390 /0DN075
[ 9.978844] EIP: 0060:[<c12d361d>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 2
[ 9.978878] EIP is at strncpy+0x1d/0x40
[ 9.978910] EAX: f1638a40 EBX: f1638a40 ECX: 0000001e EDX: 63616465
[ 9.978944] ESI: 63616465 EDI: f1638a40 EBP: f1e4fddc ESP: f1e4fdd0
[ 9.978979] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 9.979012] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 63616465 CR3: 322f7000 CR4: 000007f0
[ 9.979047] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 9.979081] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 9.979113] Process modprobe (pid: 445, ti=f1e4e000 task=f6da4c20 task.ti=f1e4e000)
[ 9.979149] Stack:
[ 9.979178] f1638a40 00000003 f1638140 f1e4fe50 f85c8582 00000004 f1638038 f847c000
[ 9.979424] f1638000 f3c41800 00000000 00000000 f1638034 00000000 00000000 00040000
[ 9.979670] 00040000 00000004 feda0000 f1e4fe30 c15ca7ad f1e4fe30 00000296 00000003
[ 9.979934] Call Trace:
[ 9.979977] [<f85c8582>] i82975x_init_one+0x22c/0x2db [i82975x_edac]
[ 9.980027] [<c15ca7ad>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x40
[ 9.980075] [<c13b5701>] ? pm_runtime_deactivate_timer+0x21/0x30
[ 9.980126] [<c12f4ee7>] pci_device_probe+0x87/0x110
[ 9.980170] [<c11ad637>] ? sysfs_create_link+0x17/0x20
[ 9.980214] [<c13acee3>] driver_probe_device+0x63/0x1e0
[ 9.980258] [<c12f4cb3>] ? pci_match_device+0xb3/0xc0
[ 9.980302] [<c13ad0f1>] __driver_attach+0x91/0xa0
[ 9.980345] [<c13ad060>] ? driver_probe_device+0x1e0/0x1e0
[ 9.980390] [<c13ab6b2>] bus_for_each_dev+0x42/0x80
[ 9.980433] [<c13ac9ce>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[ 9.980476] [<c13ad060>] ? driver_probe_device+0x1e0/0x1e0
[ 9.980520] [<c13ac727>] bus_add_driver+0x187/0x260
[ 9.980564] [<c12f4f70>] ? pci_device_probe+0x110/0x110
[ 9.980607] [<c13ad6da>] driver_register+0x6a/0x140
[ 9.980650] [<f848b000>] ? 0xf848afff
[ 9.980693] [<c12f3f52>] __pci_register_driver+0x42/0xb0
[ 9.980736] [<f848b000>] ? 0xf848afff
[ 9.980778] [<f848b02b>] i82975x_init+0x2b/0x1000 [i82975x_edac]
[ 9.980824] [<c1003112>] do_one_initcall+0x112/0x160
[ 9.980868] [<c109f8b2>] ? set_section_ro_nx+0x62/0x80
[ 9.980912] [<c10a2ad7>] sys_init_module+0xa7/0x210
[ 9.980957] [<c15d14df>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[ 9.980999] Code: 8b 7d fc 89 ec 5d c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 0c 89 5d f4 89 75 f8 89 7d fc 66 66 66 66 90 89 c3 89 d6 89 c7 49 78 08 <ac> aa 84 c0 75 f7 f3 aa 89 d8 8b 75 f8 8b 5d f4 8b 7d fc 89 ec
[ 9.981617] EIP: [<c12d361d>] strncpy+0x1d/0x40 SS:ESP 0068:f1e4fdd0
[ 9.981617] CR2: 0000000063616465

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sébastien Maccagnoni-Munch (tiramiseb)]

I'm affected too. Same controller, another computer manufacturer.

$ lspci -v | grep -A 6 Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 280c
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at e0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

[Felix Schuster (felix-schuster)]

Well,I'm affected, too. Nothing new here?
In 12.04 sound works fine, so I guess it's no big deal to fix that?

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47171

[rodrigomorante (rodrigomorante)]

Raymond, I followed the advice given here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1158033#p1158033

to wit, add

blacklist i82975x_edac

to

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

It really did kill two birds with a stone: booting Ubuntu could take several minutes and the sound was disabled, now both problems are gone.

Thank you very much!

Rodrigo