Audigy2 ZS Notebook Mic/Line-in input doesn't work

[Félix C. Morency]

Hardware:

Dell Inspiron 9300 with integrated Intel soundcard and PCMCIA Creative Audigy2 ZS Notebook sound card.

Step to reproduce:

Plug-in the soundcard and a mic in the multiple Analog/Digital input jack. Try to play with the Gnome ALSA mixer and/or aumix to get your microphone to work. Analyse that the input line isn't working. You can also try to record something from Audacity. Constat that it is just recording silence.

Version information:

Linux Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 2.6.20-15-generic
ALSA-base v1.0.14rc3
ALSA-utils v1.0.14rc2
aumix 2.8
AlsaMixer v1.0.14rc2

I also tried with the original ALSA from Feisty Fawn (v1.0.13-3) but I had the same issue (this is why I upgraded to v1.0.14rc3). Analog output works very well. I also used the asoundconf-gtk to set my default soundcard.

[Thor H. Johansen (thorhajo)]

I can confirm this bug, on the same card. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 3200 with a SiS chipset and Realtek built-in audio. Eugene Gavrilov of the kX Project seems to have gotten line-in recording working on this particular card in his 3rd party drivers using knowledge from the ALSA project. Maybe he could be asked for input on this?

[Kurt Huwig (k-huwig)]

I've got the same problem with a Realtek ALC861 on a Toshiba A7. I got it somehow fixed by doing this:

1. disable "full duplex" of "artsd" (full duplex sound still works)

2. unload/load the driver. This is done by

a) stopping the sl-modem
b) stopping artsd
c) unloading the module
d) loading the module
e) starting sl-modem
f) starting artsd

I guess there is an easier way. I do also have

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

in my modprobe.d/alsa-base. With "position_fix=1" I do also get no sound from the mic.

[mspanc (mspanc)]

I have the same problem. What can I post to help in solving this bug?

[mspanc (mspanc)]

Audio capture support for Audigy2 ZS Notebook was added in alsa 1.0.14-rc1. See: http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-13--v1-0-14rc1.txt

[Thor H. Johansen (thorhajo)]

We know. The issue here is that it is not working for us, with these drivers, or even drivers from the ALSA rsync repository.

[Kurt Huwig (k-huwig)]

Strangely enough, it stopped working after two days and I can not get it working again. As I have a WindowsXP partition on the same machine, maybe it depends on Windows settings some magic flags or crashing while the sound is active...

[Kurt Huwig (k-huwig)]

With Ubuntu/Dapper 6.10, the mic was working fine.

[mspanc (mspanc)]

Input wasn't working for me in audigy with ubuntu 6.10

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

alsa-driver (1.0.14-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/alsa-base.modprobe: Load snd-seq,
    - debian/alsa-base.postinst: Forcibly remove /etc/modprobe.d/sound
      on dist-upgrade,
    - debian/control: Don't Depend on modutils, and adhere to
      DebianMaintainerField,
    - debian/linux-sound-base.dirs: Don't create modutils or discover,
    - debian/rules: Enable MPU for snd-cmipci,
    - Only ship modprobe configuration,
    - Remove default mode,
    - Invoke modprobe with -Qb and command line options,
    - Remove modprobe post-install script in favour of using udev,
    - Continue to ship the initscript in the apm scripts dir.
  * New upstream version closes LP: #45841, LP: #51357, LP: #57294,
    LP: #59569, LP: #63971, LP: #66843, LP: #68930, LP: #75725,
    LP: #77024, LP: #77099, LP: #77101, LP: #83015, LP: #87195,
    LP: #88546, LP: #88570, LP: #90417, LP: #91721, LP: #92307,
    LP: #92358, LP: #95597, LP: #108563, LP: #110599, LP: #115186,
    LP: #118173, LP: #119086.

alsa-driver (1.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (closes: #391991, #401074, #421853)

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * debian/control: add XS-Vcs-Browser and XS-Vcs-Svn headers.

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]

  * Patch management switched to quilt. This is more comfortable.
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf templates.
    Thanks, debian-l10n-english contributors (closes: #425208).
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf translations:
    Galician: Jacobo Tarrio (closes: #425804).
    Japanese: Kenshi Muto (closes: #426007).
    Portuguese: Traduz (closes: #426111).
    Malayalam: Praveen A (closes: #426241).
    German: Helge Kreutzmann (closes: #426375).
    Czech: Miroslav Kure (closes: #426427).
    Vietnamese: Clytie Siddall (closes: #427148).
    Dutch: Bart Cornelis (closes: #428032).
    Russian: Yuri Kozlov (closes: #428136).
    Spanish: Carlos Galisteo de Cabo (closes: #428572)
    Swedish: Daniel Nylander (closes: #426202)
    Catalan: Jordi Mallach (closes: #428224)
  * Added alsa-drivers debconf templates translations:
    Basque: Piarres Beobide (closes: #425810).
    Bulgarian: Damyan Ivanov (closes: #425854).
    Tamil: Tirumurti Vasudevan (closes: #426081).
    Italian: Luca Monducci (closes: #426152).
    Korean: Sunjae Park (closes: #426618).
    Arabic: Ossama Khayat (closes: #428264)

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate.
  * Added Malayalam translation. Thanks Santhosh Thottingal. (closes: #419524)

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate
  * Merged etch changes

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate
  * Removed debian/patches/98_ens1371_inaudible_sound_def.dpatch. Applied
    different from upstream

alsa-driver (1.0.13-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * Added snd-seq-midi as an optional load above generic modules (snd-rawmidi)
    Thanks Eduard Dumitrescu for testing. (closes: #408036)
  * Added "cx88_alsa (PCI: TV cards...." to d...

[eightinches (alex-techno)]

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 and I am also unable to capture any sound from the line-in/mic/Optical-in on my Audigy 2 ZS Notebook

Alsa drivers are properly selected. I can listen to music threw the sound card. It is also configured to be default the default sound card.

I am attempting to use IDJC and Audacity and both softwares are unable to capture any sound. (but they are able to output sound)

AlsaMixer v1.0.14

If any docs or files needed, feel free to ask.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Felix,

Since you are the original bug reporter, can you confirm if this issue still exists for you? Thanks.

[Félix C. Morency (colibry10)]

Leann,

The bug still happen under my Gusty. Now, the problem comes from the fact that I can't record anything even if I can hear my mic in my speakers.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Thanks for the update Felix. With Gutsy you may want to try installing the linux-backports-modules package to see if that helps.

Additionally, the Hardy Heron Alpha series was recently released which contains an updated version of the kernel. You can download and try the new Hardy Heron Alpha release from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/ . You should be able to then test the new kernel via the LiveCD. If you can, please verify if this bug still exists or not and report back your results. General information regarding the release can also be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ .

We will keep this report open against the actively developed kernel but will be closing it against 2.6.20. Thanks.

[wolfger (wolfger)]

Over 3 months with no response. We are closing this bug report because it is not verified to exist on the current kernel, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can verify this bug on the current kernel, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[eightinches (alex-techno)]

After receiving this comment by email, I decided to try it out again since it had been months since I had done so.

I am pleased to announce that I was able to capture sound with the line-in and to record it using Audacity.

Good jobs guys. This was the only reason I was still using Windows. (was too broke for a new sound card)

[Félix C. Morency (colibry10)]

Same here. Everything seems to work now (with jackd).

[mspanc (mspanc)]

Also works for me. Thanks!