[Realtek ALC259] Recording problem

[joehill]

I just installed Ubuntu Maverick on a new Asus Eee PC Seashell 1215T and sound has several issues. The most important is that there seems to be no way to capture. There is supposed to be an internal microphone, and there is also an external microphone input jack, but with or without a microphone plugged in, there is no sound even when I turn the input volume on maximum in the "Sound Preferences" dialogue. There is only one choice for input, "Internal Audio Analog Stereo," which is checked. For the hardware, I have selected the "Internal Audio" with 1 input and 1 output, not the HDMI output.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC259 Analog [ALC259 Analog]
   Subdevices: 0/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: joseph 11671 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: joseph 11671 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfbbf4000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC259'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,1043841c,00100100'
   Controls : 11
   Simple ctrls : 7
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbde8000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Tue Jan 4 12:42:35 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 SB HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [Realtek ALC259] Recording problem
dmi.bios.date: 08/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0303
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 1215T
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0303:bd08/27/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1215T:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1215T:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1215T
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.

[Steve Murphy (stevemurphy)]

This may be related to bug 770555 and 741825 which have different audio chipsets. Can you attach the output of cat /proc/interrupts to see if the issue is related? Also, do you know if the sound works correctly in Natty ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for alsa-driver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[joehill (joseph-hill)]

This is still a problem in Natty. The only way I can get a microphone working is to use a USB microphone.

Here is the output of cat /proc/interrupts:

           CPU0
  0: 63871825 IO-APIC-edge timer
  1: 518132 IO-APIC-edge i8042
  7: 1 IO-APIC-edge
  8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
  9: 67071 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
 12: 34758412 IO-APIC-edge i8042
 14: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
 15: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
 16: 832205085 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, ath9k, hda_intel
 17: 5980086 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
 18: 15899014 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb5, ohci_hcd:usb6, radeon
 19: 1446 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, hda_intel
 22: 4779363 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci
 42: 1 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 61586845 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 IRQ work interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 846 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
MIS: 0

[madbiologist (me-again)]

There is a patch upstream in the recently released kernel 3.1-rc1 which might fix this problem:

commit b68785714b67079385188323631b05a8f9093675
Author: Kailang Yang
Date: Wed Jul 6 09:51:29 2011 +0200

    ALSA: hda - Add Realtek ALC269VC codec support

    Add the support of ALC269VC codec.
    Also delete the unnecessary codec_variant type enum list:
    now only three variants (ALC269VA ALC269VB ALC269VC) are needed.

    In addition, added some aliases:
     - Add ALC269VB alias name ALC277
     - Add ALC269VC alias name ALC259 ALC281X
     - Add ALC269VC for Lenovo device 0x21f3 name ALC3202

    Signed-off-by: Kailang Yang
    Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai

Note the alias name ALC259.

A PPA of this kernel is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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