No sound with snd-intel-hda in feisty

[Stephan Elsner]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20

No sound on IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Z61p. Sound applications behave strange - totem player "tries" to play but the position marker doesn't move.
Mixer is visible and shows all channels. Volume max. Reboot doesn't help.

dmesg shows: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...

lspci -vvv output for sound device:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T60/R60 series
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 21
        Region 0: Memory at ee400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
                Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
                Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                Link: Supported Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Port 0
                Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                Link: ASPM Disabled CommClk- ExtSynch-
                Link: Speed unknown, Width x0

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the missing output requested at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems ? Thanks in advance.

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

Sorry I didn't know that theres a document "how to report sound bugs". Here is the missing information. I tried to set the output both to digital and analog but nothing happens.

elsni@cassiopeia:~$ tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Mixers:
0: Analog Devices AD1981

elsni@cassiopeia:~$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 98 [77%] [-928.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 98 [77%] [-928.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 102 [80%] [-800.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 102 [80%] [-800.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono: Capture [off]
  Front Left: Playback 102 [80%] [-800.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 102 [80%] [-800.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono: Capture [on]
  Front Left: Playback 94 [74%] [-1056.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 94 [74%] [-1056.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 127
  Front Left: 127 [100%]
  Front Right: 127 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback Source',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'PCM' 'ADC'
  Item0: 'PCM'
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 127
  Front Left: Capture 121 [95%] [-192.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 121 [95%] [-192.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mix',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Capture [off]

elsni@cassiopeia:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
Intel

elsni@cassiopeia:~$ sudo cat /etc/asound.conf ~/.asoundrc*
cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory
cat: /home/elsni/.asoundrc*: No such file or directory

elsni@cassiopeia:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0 CPU1
  0: 170468 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
  1: 607 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
  8: 49 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
  9: 204 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
 12: 2351 1187 IO-APIC-edge i8042
 14: 7168 0 IO-APIC-edge libata
 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge libata
 16: 36115 25061 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, libata, eth0, tifm_7xx1, yenta, sdhci:slot0, fglrx
 21: 33693 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, ohci1394, ip...

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

If I start an app from the console which wants to produce sound the following error occurs:
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:867:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) snd_pcm_hw_params_any failed
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:876:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave

[Alessandro Tanasi (jekil)]

I have the same problem with my z61p the it resume after hibernate (bug #98605)

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

Sound does not work for me from the first boot and hibernation does not work either (my z61p does not resume from hibernation, screen remains black)

[Unfinishe (jt-kirk)]

Same problem with my Samsung R65 notebook.

[Unfinishe (jt-kirk)]

The following fixes the sound problem for me:

sudo mkdir /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
sudo wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
sudo tar xfj alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3
sudo vim alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c und AZX_MAX_CODECS von 3 auf 4 ändern
sudo ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
sudo make
sudo make install

[cyborgas (nuno-justoweb)]

Kernel from http://rookery.ubuntu.com/~kyle/kernels/salgado/2007-04-25/ fixed problem with sound on my IBM Thinkpad R50.

[Sebastian Bergmann (sb-sebastian-bergmann)]

Same here with a ThinkPad X60s, I have no sound support at all.

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

The instructions from "Unfinishe" didn't work for me.

elsni@cassiopeia:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3$ sudo ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

beginning of config.log :

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = cassiopeia
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.20-15-generic
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin

## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1375: checking for gcc
configure:1391: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:1401: result: gcc
configure:1645: checking for C compiler version
configure:1648: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:1651: $? = 0
configure:1653: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib -libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu -enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
configure:1656: $? = 0
configure:1658: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:1661: $? = 1
configure:1684: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:1687: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:1690: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:1729: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

the new kernel mentioned has no effect either.

[Sebastian Bergmann (sb-sebastian-bergmann)]

The problem went away for me after enabling the modem in the BIOS of my ThinkPad X60s.

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

Great! This works for me too! Enabling the modem in the BIOS switches on sound on the z61p!
Thank you!

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Closing due to known issue.

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

Why is this issue closed?
It's still a bug because sound does not work with modem disabled, what is not at all obvious.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This is a hardware issue that the vendor must address. There is nothing that the driver can do to work around it.

[Stephan Elsner (elsni)]

But it works in windows...

[Jan Niklas Hasse (jhasse)]

@Stephan Elsner
It works under Linux too!
Just type
sudo apt-get install build-essential
before you follow Unfinishe's instructions.

@Unfinishe
How did you find out? Works! Cool.

[ThinkpadUBUNTU (wjkierstead)]

Turning on the modem fixed the sound on my Z61p as well. Machine/model 9452-JRU