No sound in natty w/ HDA ATI SB on IEC 958

[leder]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

This is a regression bug. Pulseaudio was formerly working on Ubuntu 10.04.

There is now in Ubuntu 11.04 no sound via digital output of a Soundcard "HDA ATI SB" with chip Realtek ALC889A.

I expected to have stereo sound output via IEC 958 HDMI connection. This was happening in Ubuntu 10.04.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,1458a102,00100101'
   Controls : 38
   Simple ctrls : 21
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Tags: natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 12/24/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F7i
dmi.board.name: GA-MA790GP-DS4H
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.:bvrF7i:bd12/24/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA790GP-DS4H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA790GP-DS4H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA790GP-DS4H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[leder (gerrit-leder)]

Similar configuration as in Bug #611521, but this here is working on ubuntu 10.04!

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Thanks for your bug report. Could you plesae run the following command in a terminal, so we can get some more information about your hardware. "apport-collect 784784".

Thanks.

[leder (gerrit-leder)]

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I have the following graphics drivers in use:
- nvidia (ubuntu 10.04)
- nouveau (ubuntu 11.04)

Hope this and apport helps!

[leder (gerrit-leder)]

It seems to me that this is a nouveau graphics driver issue and that nv (proprietary nvidia driver) has a HDMI Audio component.
Nouveau seems to have no HDMI Audio driver capabilities.

Should this bug be redirected to package nouveau?

[leder (gerrit-leder)]

confirmed that audio is working with driver nv activated!

Though "additional drivers" program detects nv as "activated, but not in use"!

Now sound via DVI/HDMI is o. k. with stereo configuration.

[leder (gerrit-leder)]

Plz redirect to package nouveau or close this issue, for nv driver can be used as a workaround!