My audio HW is broken in U9.10

[psl]

U9.10, i386. Sound card is in PCI slot, it is ForteMedia 801. There is sound card on the motherboard too but I don't use it.
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Fortemedia, Inc Xwave QS3000A [FM801] (rev b2)

Second. Sound preferences in Volume control has dialogue like this (INPUT):

Choose device for sound input:
o Internal Audio Analog Stereo
o Internal Audio Analog Stereo

Is this dialogue about two different devices with the same name? Is the same device listed twice? Very confusing...

BTW, audio was working in Ubuntu 8.04.3 on the same PC fine; at least much better compared with U9.10. I observed similar issues in FC11 before.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: FM801AU [ForteMedia FM801-AU], device 0: FM801 [FM801]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: psl 1916 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: psl 1916 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: psl 1916 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'FM801AU'/'ForteMedia FM801-AU at 0xe000, irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9704'
   Components : 'AC97a:83847605'
   Controls : 44
   Simple ctrls : 29
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'UART'/'MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10'
   Mixer name : ''
   Components : ''
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'SAA7134'/'saa7133[0] at 0xef006000 irq 18'
   Mixer name : 'SAA7134 Mixer'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 6
   Simple ctrls : 3
CheckboxCommand: alsa_record_playback
CheckboxData: Sound is terrible. 8.04 sounds wery well but 9.10 is serius stepback. I hear siome sounds but with gaps; maybe that buffers are played in wrong order or some timer problem. Not only here all sounds. Something was recorded, thsiis good point.
CheckboxDescription:
 Open the volume control application by right-clicking on the speaker icon in the panel and selecting "Sound Preferences". Select the "Input" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). Select the "Output" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). When you are done, click the Test button, then speak into the microphone. After a few seconds, your speech will be played back to you.

 Did you hear your speech played back?
CheckboxTest: alsa_record_playback_alternates
Date: Thu Oct 29 20:47:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
---
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: FM801AU [ForteMedia FM801-AU], device 0: FM801 [FM801]
   Subdevices: 0/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: ubuntu 2951 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 2951 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: ubuntu 2951 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'FM801AU'/'ForteMedia FM801-AU at 0xe000, irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9704'
   Components : 'AC97a:83847605'
   Controls : 44
   Simple ctrls : 29
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'UART'/'MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10'
   Mixer name : ''
   Components : ''
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'SAA7134'/'saa7133[0] at 0xef006000 irq 18'
   Mixer name : 'SAA7134 Mixer'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 6
   Simple ctrls : 3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
Package: alsa-driver (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

Hi psl,

Please, if you are still having issues, test 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 463674

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.

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[psl (slansky)]

AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: FM801AU [ForteMedia FM801-AU], device 0: FM801 [FM801]
   Subdevices: 0/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: psl 1965 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: psl 1965 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: psl 1965 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'FM801AU'/'ForteMedia FM801-AU at 0xe000, irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9704'
   Components : 'AC97a:83847605'
   Controls : 44
   Simple ctrls : 29
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'UART'/'MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10'
   Mixer name : ''
   Components : ''
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'SAA7134'/'saa7133[0] at 0xef006000 irq 18'
   Mixer name : 'SAA7134 Mixer'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 6
   Simple ctrls : 3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100327)
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
UserGroups:

[psl (slansky)]

The last report from apport-collect is still from U9.10 i386, updated with the latest version of packages. Audio is still broken.
I am going to test the same with Ubuntu 10.04 beta...

[psl (slansky)]

Ubuntu 10.04 i386 beta

# apport-collect -p alsa-base 463674
Usage: apport-gtk <report number>

apport-gtk: error: no such option: -p

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Retested in U10.04 i386 beta. My sound card still cannot play nice songs. I hear sound but it is not good, like buffers are played in random order or some buffers are lost.

In the case you will give me some reference sound file, I can play it and record my audio output for your analyze in Audacity or similar tool. I think good test file could be:
1) sine wave of well define frequency - to test continuity and timing/frequency
2) sine wave of increasing frequency - to see if buffers are lost or order of buffer is changed

Don't you miss a suite to test audio in Ubuntu?? Something more serious than checkbox that just play sound check with user if HW is OK.

[psl (slansky)]

Part of my report here is related to #463685 that is about sound quality.

[Lukas Svoboda (svoboda77)]

I confirm the same problem with the same card, in Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 amd64. Audio playback corrupted, FM tuner does not work too. Following settings worked in Ubuntu 8.04:

options snd-fm801 tea575x_tuner=2

[ementos (ementos)]

The same in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS i386 :/
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/109783

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated/deprecated version which has reached EOL does not get support