[SigmaTel 92HD206X] ALSA test tone not correctly played back through front jack

[Ben Blout]

In Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04, if I plugged a set of headphones into the front jack of my motherboard, I could hear all the sounds that were also coming out of the speakers connected to the rear jack.

In 10.04 I can not get any sound from the front jack.
I see bug 441502 has similar symptoms

Is it possible this line from my syslog is relevant?
Feb 7 15:09:17 seal kernel: [ 9.268514] input: HDA ATI SB HP Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card0/input14

I'll attach the boot section of the syslog to this report. Lastly, if you need information about the motherboard, lshw says:
 *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: A780GM-A
       vendor: ECS
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: 080014 (05/20/2008)
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: blout 2324 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfccf0000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel 92HD206X'
   Components : 'HDA:83847645,10192816,00100402'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 24
Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfcee8000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Tue Feb 9 00:25:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
SelectedCard: 0 SB HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [SigmaTel 92HD206X] ALSA test tone not correctly played back
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: blout 1835 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: blout 1835 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfccf0000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel 92HD206X'
   Components : 'HDA:83847645,10192816,00100402'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 24
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'RadioSHARK'/'Griffin Technology, Inc. RadioSHARK at usb-0000:00:13.0-1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB077d:627a'
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfcee8000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: blout 4428 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: blout 4428 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: blout 4428 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfccf0000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel 92HD206X'
   Components : 'HDA:83847645,10192816,00100402'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 24
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'RadioSHARK'/'Griffin Technology, Inc. RadioSHARK at usb-0000:00:13.0-1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB077d:627a'
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfcee8000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-999-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

Hi Ben,

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 519157

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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[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Ben Blout wrote:
> In Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04, if I plugged a set of headphones into the front
> jack of my motherboard, I could hear all the sounds that were also
> coming out of the speakers connected to the rear jack.
>
> In 10.04 I can not get any sound from the front jack.

Which Connector is selected in the dropdown menu of GNOME sound
preferences > Output?

[Ben Blout (bdb-new)]

Daniel Chen wrote:
>Which Connector is selected in the dropdown menu of GNOME sound preferences > Output?

If I right-click on the volume control in the notification, choose 'Sound Preferences', then choose the 'Output' tab, the Connector is 'Analog Speakers'.
In the dropdown menu, I can also choose 'Analog Output'. Doing so does not change any of the symptoms.

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[Ben Blout (bdb-new)]

As requested, I ran 'apport-collect -p alsa-base 519157' with an up-to-date system, and then again after installing a mainline kernel (hopefully I did what I should have).

I'm removing the needs-required-logs needs-test-current-image tags.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]

This control is generally used when you want output over s/pdif, not analog speakers connected via the rear panel (note that most mainboard/component integrators expose this as the "front").

[Ben Blout (bdb-new)]

Hmm, I'm a bit above my head, here, but I did this command:
amixer cset numid=33 off

and now 'amixer' shows this:

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]

And the front headphone jack is still not working. What I don't know, though, is if this is the change you were trying to suggest.

[Ben Blout (bdb-new)]

What is making this bug still incomplete? What information could I provide?

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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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[Ben Blout (bdb-new)]

I provided the requested information back on March 29th; I don't know why this bug is considered incomplete.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Are you able to reproduce this symptom using linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev? Note that you need to be running a Lucid kernel.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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