Surround sound not working in Hardy with Realtek HD audio (ALC861VD)

[Joey Michael]

Trying to enable surround sound with 5.1 creative speakers on Realtek HD audio onboard sound. Tried different sugestions found on the forums but in vain. Please help.

mj@mj-desktop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC861VD Analog [ALC861VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I'm not able to find the options under volume control preferences for the surround speakers. I tried different things like creating a .asoundrc file with some parameters suggested on some forums. Tried changing the pulse daemon file. None have worked so far.

[Joey Michael (joey-eddy)]

Please note that this is an onboard sound card with shared surround port (line-in and mic work as the center/sub woofer and the rear speaker ports)

[Joey Michael (joey-eddy)]

I was able to get the surround/center/rear channels in alsamixer after adding 'options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-digout' but there is no sound from the center/rear speakers even at full volume.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please execute the alsa-info.sh script referenced from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems and attach the URL.

[Joey Michael (joey-eddy)]

Hi Daniel,

Please find the URL below.

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0f5077b2664de79b007c1249e67d0bf5c9209326

Please note that I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy before running alsa-info.sh as I had updated to Ubuntu Intrepid (Alpha 5). Also I have not added the 'options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-digout'.

Thanks,
Joey.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

I presume this symptom is also reproducible on alpha 6 due to the pin structs not matching (?)

[Joey Michael (joey-eddy)]

Yup. It's not working on Alpha 6 too. Please let me know if there is any workaround for this problem.

Thanks,
Joey.

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Joey,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 252701

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . 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.

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