[HDA-Intel - HDA Intel] ALSA test tone not correctly played back.

[Antonio Sánchez]

There are a problem with the recognition of this device.

If I put the harddrive of this system in another motherboard with sound correctly supported and then put back the harddrive in this motherboard sound works.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D2', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Error: command ['amixer', '-c', '0', 'info'] failed with exit code 1: amixer: Mixer load hw:0 error: Invalid argument
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfdff8000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC887'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302'
   Controls : 40
Card0.Amixer.values: Error: command ['amixer', '-c', '0'] failed with exit code 1: amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: Invalid argument
Date: Fri Oct 22 18:12:35 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 Intel HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [HDA-Intel - HDA Intel] ALSA test tone not correctly played back
amixerStderr: a m i x e r : M i x e r h w : 0 l o a d e r r o r : I n v a l i d a r g u m e n t
dmi.bios.date: 05/04/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F1
dmi.board.name: G41MT-D3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF1:bd05/04/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnG41MT-D3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnG41MT-D3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: G41MT-D3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom reproducible with linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic installed? If it is, please also include the output from `pactl stat'.

[Antonio Sánchez (antoniosanchez)]

Hi Daniel,

After installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic and updating lucid to the latest state sound still doesn't work.

usuario@ticnova:~$ uname -a
Linux ticnova 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 07:54:58 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

usuario@ticnova:~$ dpkg -l | grep backports-modules
ii linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.32-23-generic 2.6.32-23.16 Ubuntu supplied Linux modules for version 2.
ii linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic 2.6.32.23.24 Backported drivers for alsa-driver snapshot.

usuario@ticnova:~$ pactl stat
Actualmente en uso: 1 bloques conteniendo 64,0 KiB bytes en total.
Ubicados durante a lo largo del tiempo: 2900 bloques conteniendo 10,9 MiB bytes en total.
Tamaño de la caché de muestra: 0 B
Nombre de usuario: usuario
Nombre del equipo: ticnova
Nombre del servidor: pulseaudio
Versión del servidor: 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty
Especificación de muestra predeterminada: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Mapa de canal predeterminado: front-left,front-right
Destino predeterminado: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Fuente predeterminada: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: fd9821e4

I'm in contact with the manufacturer and I'll upgrade all the new information about this bug.

Thanks Daniel.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

And if you remove ~/.pulse* and then `killall pulseaudio"?

[Antonio Sánchez (antoniosanchez)]

root@ticnova:/home/usuario# rm -rf .pulse
root@ticnova:/home/usuario# killall pulseaudio

same result after doing this, no sound. Thanks again.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

I'm pretty sure you don't want to do that as root. Is your normal
account the root one?

[Antonio Sánchez (antoniosanchez)]

Sorry, same results for a normal user:

usuario@ticnova:~$ pactl stat
Actualmente en uso: 1 bloques conteniendo 64,0 KiB bytes en total.
Ubicados durante a lo largo del tiempo: 199 bloques conteniendo 9,0 MiB bytes en total.
Tamaño de la caché de muestra: 0 B
Nombre de usuario: usuario
Nombre del equipo: ticnova
Nombre del servidor: pulseaudio
Versión del servidor: 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty
Especificación de muestra predeterminada: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Mapa de canal predeterminado: front-left,front-right
Destino predeterminado: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Fuente predeterminada: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 2ba2c16c

usuario@ticnova:~$ rm -rf .pulse

usuario@ticnova:~$ killall pulseaudio

[actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666)]

also using force as root is a REALLY dumb idea, if you screw up the command and unleash some unholy command you can EASILY ruin your OS without any effort at all, using rm -rf as a standard command is one of the worst habits a user can form. The data is in $HOME and only used when pulseaudio starts, so force is NOT needed.

[Antonio Sánchez (antoniosanchez)]

Finally we have bought a motherboard model fully supported in 10.04. I can not keep doing tests on this hardware because we returned the Gigabyte G41MT-D3 to the supplier.

Thanks for the constructive comments.