[jaunty regression] No sound with HDA intel

[Stefan Krause]

Sound used to work with 8.04 and 8.10 (usually after unmuting a channel), but I can't get jaunty alpha 3 to play any sound.
The hardware is a hp hdx9480 laptop with a Intel HDA chipset. (tIntel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog])

[Also confirmed on Thinkpad T61p with Intel HDA. Used to work with 2.6.28-3 and 2.6.28-4, even when broken in 2.6.28-5 and 2.6.28-6, but a recent update have broke it there, too.]

I checked all channels with alsamixer and alsamixer -D hw:0 and I can't find any muted channel.

Other information:

stef@hape:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xec004000 irq 23

I tried to check whether sound works with aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav. It reports no errors and the volume bar in pavucontrol shows that music is playing.

 stef@hape:~$ ps ux | grep pulse
stef 5807 2.9 0.1 366408 7572 ? Ssl 12:14 0:30 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
stef 5808 0.0 0.0 65972 3040 ? S 12:14 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
stef 7090 0.0 0.0 7488 904 pts/1 S+ 12:31 0:00 grep pulse

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-5-generic 2.6.28-5.15
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=664a01ac-b4a2-473b-b9b1-20664b3cb8f3 ro quiet nosplash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-5.15-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Same here.

T61p 6457-7WU.

 # cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0xfe220000 irq 17
 # aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

This is a new regression, since I was playing audio Jaunty previously.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Not sure, but it may have appeared after the fixes for Bug 316430.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Something just changed, and broke audio back to 2.6.28-3. :-( So now I have no sound in Jaunty with any recent kernel, instead of just the most recent ones being broken.

[matt (bradbury-matthew)]

Found a tempory fix. Restart PulseAudio by typing in terminal:

pulseaudio -k

This command will have to be typed in every time you log in if you want sound from applications.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

That doesn't do it for me. After running it, I still have no sound (and no pulseadio process running). If I try to run pulseaudo after killing it, then:

$ pulseaudio -k
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.

$ ps auxwww | grep pulse
noel 4908 0.0 0.0 7484 904 pts/0 S+ 20:56 0:00 grep pulse

$ pulseaudio
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_284b_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed.

Adding myself to the pulse-rt group did not appear to make any difference. Still no audio under Jaunty anymore.

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

pulseaudio -k doesn't change anything for me (Neither does disabling all system sounds as some voices suggest). Even after yesterday's updates I still have no sound.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

For me, it turns out that of the myriad audio problems people have reported, Bug 315971 is what I had to address (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/315971/comments/15). Basically, the speakers were disabled and needed to be re-enabled.

[Don Spaulding II (donspauldingii)]

I've been bitten by this bug as well (Intel x3100 on Thinkpad T61), and the error message Noel pasted was what I saw when trying to run 'pulseaudio -k' too. I took the hint from the error and ran:

sudo adduser <my_username> pulse-rt

After logging out/back in, audio works fine. Does this sound like a usable solution or a hackish workaround?

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

I've attached the alsa-info output for my Fedora 10 copy. Sound works perfectly fine on that distro. And I decided to do a fresh install for Januty Alpha 4. Some channels were muted, but even after unmuting I get no sound.

I tried to diff the alsa-info output between F10 and Jaunty, but I can't make any sense of the differences.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

> Some channels were muted, but even after unmuting I get no sound.

With Jaunty, even though I have internal speakers working, I cannot get sound out of the headphone jack. It works fine with Hardy, Intrepid and Fedora 10.

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

Thanks to https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4262 (Click on "Guest login (view only) is also available" to actually view the issue) I have sound back. The solution was to set the model in /etc/modprobe.d/options:
options snd-hda-intel model=5stack

Now the question is: Close the bug or leave it open (because sound should work after a standard installation)?

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

> With Jaunty, even though I have internal speakers working, I cannot get sound out of the headphone jack.

Working now, so for me everything is fixed.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Based on my read of the followup comments, marking as fixed. If that's incorrect and there are still people with sound issues with this chipset, please re-open (set status back to New) or file a new bug. Thanks for your report!

[neo (tkolodziejski)]

It still doesn't work for me and I hear only silent noise.

Matt's "temporary fix" works. But as I see it's rather ugly since it just kills pulseaudio.

What is more - as far as I remember in Hardy I was also using the testing version and the sound was broken as well. And I was only able to hear that noise.

[neo (tkolodziejski)]

Yeah, it's working now. I don't know why, but today my jaunty started with sound.

[panton41 (panton41)]

Still broken after trying everything here:

colinritter@Raoul-Duke:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf4600000 irq 22

[panton41 (panton41)]

Let me also add:

colinritter@Raoul-Duke:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: LSI ID 1040
Codec: IDT 92HD71B8X

[panton41 (panton41)]

Turns out headphones work, but main speakers don't.

[AshBelan (ant1mony)]

I only have headphones, and they don't work. I have an Intel 82801JI HD Audio Controller, which worked perfectly in Intrepid. I've tried a few things, and nothing appears to work. Please patch this, Canonical.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

Same problem here!! Regression.
HP Pavilion dv3060

ruth@elise:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X
Codec: LSI ID 1040

ruth@elise:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xd9300000 irq 22

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

Also interesting is, that I really had PERFECT sound in intrepid without any modifications to the pulseaudio config. Now, when I use intrepid kernel on jaunty, so I can hear sound again, the sound is cracky suddenly. And it does not matter if I turn tsched on or off. Actually the sound even sucks, when I run pure alsa!

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
 Region 0: Memory at d9300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

As I'm the original reporter I think I should add some information to this bug and I think it's not a duplicate.

My first problem is that I need to choose model=5stack-no-fp instead of 5stack with newer kernel versions. After that I get some sound back, but my second problem is that I have to set the "Line jack mode" to "line out" after each reboot.
And it even seems that after some time after sound has stopped I have to set the line jack mode again (I'm not sure if I'm clear: aplay test.wav, stop it, wait for a minute, aplay test.wav => no sound until line jack mode is set).
(Maybe powersaving related?)