Crystal soundcard CS4236 module not loaded on startup

[Sheephead]

I am running dapper (upgraded from hoary)
My soundcard in crystal semiconductors sc4236 (integrated with motherboard)
I have to manually run sudo modprobe snd-cs4236 to load the sound driver, or manually add it to the startup list file (i forget the name)
This should work out-of-the-box

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Confirming, I have the same problem with Dell Optiplex GX1.
This is with 6.10.
lspci don't list it, (it is ISA PnP as far as I know).
seems that it is wrongly detected as CS4232 (I'll include dmesg)

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Extract from dmesg:
[17179601.548000] pnp: Device 01:01.00 activated.
[17179601.564000] pnp: Device 01:01.00 disabled.
[17179601.580000] cs4232-pnpbios: probe of 01:01.00 failed with error -2
[17179601.596000] CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

pauld@pauld-desktop:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.33-generic)

[Warren Butler (grumpymole)]

May be similar to bug #40116 - a well-known problem with the Thinkpad 600E, which also has this sound card. In this case it always incorrectly detects it as a cd4610.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Extract from lshal:
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_CSC0010'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_CSC0010' (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1) (int)
  info.product = 'Crystal Semiconductor CS423x sound -- control' (string)
  pnp.description = 'Crystal Semiconductor CS423x sound -- control' (string)
  pnp.id = 'CSC0010' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  info.bus = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pnp1/01:01/01:01.02' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pnp1/01:01/01:01.02' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_CSC0003'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_CSC0003' (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1) (int)
  info.product = 'Crystal Semiconductor CS423x sound -- MPU401' (string)
  pnp.description = 'Crystal Semiconductor CS423x sound -- MPU401' (string)
  pnp.id = 'CSC0003' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  info.bus = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pnp1/01:01/01:01.03' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pnp1/01:01/01:01.03' (string)

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

The 'card' is correctly detected by isapnp (extract from dmesg):
[17179573.740000] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
[17179573.740000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179573.844000] isapnp: Card 'CS4236B'
[17179573.844000] isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

"May be similar to bug #40116 - a well-known problem with the Thinkpad 600E, which also has this sound card. In this case it always incorrectly detects it as a cd4610."

We have no problem with CS4237B, but with CS4236B.
I see no reason to think it is detected wrongly.
The problem seems to be it try to load module CS4232, rather than module CS3236.

I am not bright enough to know if bug #41990 is related.

Close (for fix release) bug #18716, seems to have added a CS4236 module, but it was never automatically detected (or rather used). So this bug is to me like a request to really finish work done on #18716.

Like original poster said, adding in /etc/modules:
snd-cs4236
is enough for us to make it work. But we would like it to work
out of the box.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I am assigning this bug to the 'ubuntu-kernel-team' per their bug policy. For future reference you can learn more about their bug policy at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies .

[Andrew Young (andrew-young88)]

Thank you so very very much.
I haven't worked out how to get sound from boot, but getting any sound at all is... awesome.
Thank you.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.17 Edgy Eft kernel task.

Hardy Heron 8.04 was recently released. It would be helpful if you could test the new release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . You should be able to test your bug using the LiveCD. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Lou Ruppert (louferd)]

Running an upgraded hardy, this is still an issue on a Dell GXi:

[ 27.065694] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 41.145019] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 41.250848] isapnp: Card 'CS4236'
[ 41.250892] isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
[ 172.535185] cs4232-pnpbios 01:01.00: activated
[ 172.537955] cs4232-pnpbios 01:01.00: disabled

But once I do a modprobe snd-cs4236 by hand it works fine:

[163347.635406] cs4236_isapnp 01:01.00: activated
[163347.638598] cs4236_isapnp 01:01.02: activated
[163347.641252] cs4236_isapnp 01:01.03: activated

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Please don't reopen bug related to Edgy.

If you still have the issue on Hardy, you need to confirm the Linux (ubuntu) one.

Reading your last comment, i set it as confirmed.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information. Thanks.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Hi, there wasn't response to last comment over this issue on a long time.

also this bug is a dupe from bug #41990 and bug #14688

According to those bugs the problem is not a kernel one but alsa initscripts one. According to the bug #41990 the file /usr/share/doc/alsa-utils/README.init.cs4236 contains information needed for this card owners.

It's not clear for me why that line is not included in /etc/modules.d/alsa-base.conf thou (maybe because is an older isa card?)

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/41990/comments/6
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/14688/comments/12