ALC1200 incorrectly identified and improperly setup

[stout]

Binary package hint: alsa-base

stout@aspen:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
stout@aspen:~$ apt-cache policy alsa-base
alsa-base:
  Installed: 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

That out of the way, my onboard Realtek ALC1200 isn't working in Ubuntu 9.04. The Alsa 1.0.18a reports correcting this.

From http://www.linuxstreet.net/news/E/22304/ALSA-1-0-18-Final-Now-Available-Lots-of-Changes.html,

Since ALSA 1.0.18 RC3 there were quite a few improvements to the Oxygen driver for some high-end C-Media APUs, many HDA Codec driver improvements including support for HDMI audio on the NVIDIA MCP78/7A, ALC1200 / ALC887 support, and many driver updates from the Google Summer of Code projects.

Could we get this package updated please, so that I and many others may have working sound?

Thanks a million,
Dennis Stout

[eyenx (eyenx)]

Hi

Somebody tried his ALC1200 on Karmic Koala BETA? there is ALSA 1.0.20 - Problem should be solved with Karmic?

Greez

[stout (stoutman)]

> Hi
>
> Somebody tried his ALC1200 on Karmic Koala BETA? there is ALSA 1.0.20 -
> Problem should be solved with Karmic?

Sorry, turns out my onboard is an ALC888 that was misidentified with
prior ALSA tools. My sound card now works in Karmic, but I think
there is still progress to be made on selecting audio paths. This is
well out of scope for this bug issue, but I'll throw it out there
anyways. As long as all you're dpoing is hooking speakers up to a
system directly, it's all well and good. these days though, a lot of
people are routing their audio through their HDMI ports to the TV set.

I think it should be significantly easier to do this than editing
various files. I'll send an email in about 11 hours with details on
what I edit to make it work.. Once the edits are done though, then I
can select the proper stuff in the pulse GUI tools.

Like everything else though, it _does_ work so I don't expect a change
any time soon. Maybe I'll write something for it when I'm on vacation
next year.

Dennis

>
> Greez
>
> --
> ALC1200 incorrectly identified and improperly setup
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365411
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>
> Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: alsa-base
>
> stout@aspen:~$ lsb_release -rd
> Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
> Release:        9.04
> stout@aspen:~$ apt-cache policy alsa-base
> alsa-base:
>  Installed: 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8
>  Candidate: 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8
>  Version table:
>  *** 1.0.18.dfsg-1ubuntu8 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> That out of the way, my onboard Realtek ALC1200 isn't working in Ubuntu 9.04.  The Alsa 1.0.18a reports correcting this.
>
> >From http://www.linuxstreet.net/news/E/22304/ALSA-1-0-18-Final-Now-Available-Lots-of-Changes.html,
>
> Since ALSA 1.0.18 RC3 there were quite a few improvements to the Oxygen driver for some high-end C-Media APUs, many HDA Codec driver improvements including support for HDMI audio on the NVIDIA MCP78/7A, ALC1200 / ALC887 support, and many driver updates from the Google Summer of Code projects.
>
> Could we get this package updated please, so that I and many others may have working sound?
>
> Thanks a million,
> Dennis Stout
>

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

The latest development release of Ubuntu is entering Beta. Please
consider taking the time to download the latest live-image from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid and see if this issue still
exists.

If the issue does still exist; in a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)
please execute the following command:
    apport-collect -p alsa-driver 365411

[EricDHH (ericdhh)]

Do i have the alc1200 or 889a here? Got stutter and crackle with lucid alsa, got all fixed with the realtek 5.14 driver package from realtek.com.tw.

Codec: Realtek ALC888
Address: 0
Function Id: 0x1
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0888
Subsystem Id: 0x1458a002
Revision Id: 0x100001
No Modem Function Group found

If there is a mis-detection on boot, the wrong driver is used and the nearly compatible codecs will not work cleanly. We should investigate this, there a lots of posts in mailing lists bout that.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, 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!