No sound devices present (Dell Studio XPS laptop)

[LarsIvarIgesund]

This is a regression after I upgraded to Natty - however, a similar (or the same) problem was present back in 10.04 at which point I figured out some way to configure it to work somewhat.

I discovered the issue now as I tried to use spotify and amarok, neither of which created any sound, neither on speakers, nor headphones. KMix also shows no devices to adjust.

According to lspci, I have

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)

I think the "fixes" in the previous versions included the STAC92xx driver.

The hardware seems to have:

 1 x mic input jack port.
 2 x output/headphone jack port
 2 x built-in mics (1 analog, 1 digital?), or at least there are two microphone "holes", one on each side of the camera
 1 x hdmi

Part of the issues I had with the previous Ubuntu versions was that I was never able to get the built-in microphone(s) working with programs like skype. Never tried the jack as I don't have a useful microphone readily available.

I don't mind helping with testing various configurations, but it would be good if this stuff could be properly auto-detected. Sound not working out of the box is very non-intuitive and an issue when I wish to recommend Ubuntu to people.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-2ubuntu1b1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-11.25-generic-pae 2.6.37-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic-pae i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/hwC1D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D3p', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf1000000 irq 49'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD73C1X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7675,102802fe,00100103'
   Controls : 1
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xcfeec000 irq 51'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
Date: Wed Dec 29 09:44:13 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nn_NO:nn:no_NO:no:nb_NO:nb:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
dmi.bios.date: 02/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 0Y517R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A07
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A07
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd02/10/2010:svnDellInc.:pnStudioXPS1645:pvrA07:rvnDellInc.:rn0Y517R:rvrA07:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA07:
dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 1645
dmi.product.version: A07
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hi Lars-Ivar and thanks for testing the new version of Ubuntu!

There is an error while initialising your sound card:

[ 24.004283] hda_codec: cannot build controls for #0 (error -16)

However, I've run your codec in an emulator against an updated natty codebase, and it seems to be working there, so this is probably fixed in current Natty. Can you verify? Thanks!

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