[Intrepid] No sound on ASUS V1V (Intel 82801I / ALC662 codec + ATI RV635 / R6xx codec)

[Marty]

ASUS V1V-AK014E

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

amd_64

Sound was working when 8.10 was first installed but has stopped working at some point since.

Tried everything at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems with no success.

alsa-info.sh output is at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=07a6132ad13e5d45f8af8cd562ac47dc5a2e2031

Tried various combinations of module options to snd_hda_intel without success.

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

No sound try these maybe one will help.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1012179
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997506

Good Luck, let us know how it goes.

[Marty (marty-supine)]

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1012179

All channels are not muted and set at a reasonable volume.

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

The initial troubleshooting steps are similar to the wiki.ubuntu.com ones. Nothing glaringly wrong but still no sound.

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997506

Worked my way through this.

I can see output supposedly passing through pulseaudio when playing a test tone from System -> Preferences -> Sound but can't hear any output.

Pulseaudio crashed shortly after.

Jan 6 12:59:29 cotterpin pulseaudio[6365]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Jan 6 12:59:29 cotterpin pulseaudio[6367]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 6 12:59:29 cotterpin pulseaudio[6367]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 6 12:59:44 cotterpin pulseaudio[6367]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Jan 6 12:59:44 cotterpin pulseaudio[6367]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

[ayxc (ayxc)]

I ran into the same isue with my ASUS V1V. There was no way to get sound working with 8.10.
I could however solve the problem by using the latest ALSA Version (1.0.19). See this link for an automated process (script) to upgrade ALSA:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046137

HTH,
ayxc

[Marty (marty-supine)]

Ayxc, thanks for the suggestion. After running that script I now have sound.

[Marty (marty-supine)]

...and I'm now running Jaunty which seems to have good support for this sound chipset. Resolving