[karmic] No sound with Realtek ALC883

[Pedro Fragoso]

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe0f8000 irq 20'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC883'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0883,14623ff3,00100002 HDA:11c11040,11c10001,00100200'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 14
Date: Mon Aug 17 16:58:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.25-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic i686

[Pedro Fragoso (ember)]

Tried a bunch of model= for 883 the only one i got some result was with model=targa-2ch-dig .

[cwsnyder (carlwsnyder)]

Running ALSA-Mixer from Terminal shows the Realtek ALC883 chip, HDA ATI SB motherboard sound package, but I am unable to get _any_ sound from Karmic. Sound had worked since I started with Gutsy, although PulseAudio since Intrepid had been problematical. Going to try disabling PulseAudio and going back to ALSA to see if that works.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@Pedro Have you installed linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic and rebooted?

[cwsnyder (carlwsnyder)]

I had installed with only a single user besides root. Using the guide to sound problems on the Ubuntu Forums, I added a different user. The new user sound works on my system. Now I just have to dig into what the differences are between the users.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Try rm -rf ~/.pulse*

On Nov 8, 2009 6:00 PM, "cwsnyder" <email address hidden> wrote:

I had installed with only a single user besides root. Using the guide
to sound problems on the Ubuntu Forums, I added a different user. The
new user sound works on my system. Now I just have to dig into what the
differences are between the users.

-- [karmic] No sound with Realtek ALC883
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414897 You received this ...

Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description:

aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA
Intel], device 0: ALC883 Ana...

[cwsnyder (carlwsnyder)]

@Daniel T Chen
I tried the rm -rf ~/.pulse*
Still no sound. System > Preferences > Sound does not detect any sound hardware with the default user.

sudo lshw for multimedia shows:
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 14.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
             version: 01
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=64
             resources: irq:16 memory:92100000-92103fff
Is there any other information which I can provide with the aim of squashing this 'bug'?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@cwsnyder
Please file a separate bug using "ubuntu-bug alsa-base" in a Terminal
if you have not already done so.

[cwsnyder (carlwsnyder)]

I finally copied the ~/.pulse folder from an alternate user I set up to check if it was just the default user which had the problems with no sound. That fixed my problem, but I don't know why the alternate user worked and the original (default) user did not.

[Dan Dart (dandart)]

For me, this worked. When I made the new user, the sound was muted as it was. I turned it up and it worked for the new user, copying .pulse made it work for me (though Playback/recording through the pulseaudio sound server is now grayed out in kde settings). Maybe it's wrong signals going through.

[Dan Dart (dandart)]

Note that it worked for me before, just yesterday did it stop, but it's OK with the workaround.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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 alsa-base 414897

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.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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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