Pulseaudio fails to detect card (HDA Intel)

[Reece H. Dunn]

I get no sound after upgrading oneiric today on [HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC, IDT 92HD75B3X5, Speaker, Internal]. This was working after a previous upgrade (last week some time).

$ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

$ ls -lh /dev/mixer
ls: cannot access /dev/mixer: No such file or directory

$ ls -lh /dev/snd/control*
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2011-10-01 07:46 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 15 2011-10-01 07:46 /dev/snd/controlC1

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xdb100000 irq 47
 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xd3000000 irq 48

$ dmesg | grep "HDA Intel"
[ 15.695473] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 15.695549] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 15.695589] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 15.894116] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13
[ 15.894244] input: HDA Intel Line Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input14
[ 15.894585] HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 15.894733] HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 15.894763] HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: setting latency timer to 64

reece@freya:~$ espeak hello
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround40
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround41
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround50
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround51
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:240: no soundcards found...
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/hwC1D0', '/dev/snd/hwC1D1', '/dev/snd/hwC1D2', '/dev/snd/hwC1D3', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D8p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D9p', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CheckboxSubmission: 5434425585a31b50d9fa7c3153a37fe1
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Sat Oct 1 08:21:56 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Symptom_Jack: Speaker, Internal
Title: [HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC, IDT 92HD75B3X5, Speaker, Internal] Pulseaudio fails to detect card
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-24 (6 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/22/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.16
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 365C
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 32.24
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.16:bd01/22/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv7NotebookPC:pvr049D210000241210000020000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn365C:rvr32.24:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 049D210000241210000020000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart)]

I had the same trouble.

See if this works...go to System-Settings-Sound, and select another sound card. Then run the sound tests and see if that works.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

I wonder if this is a duplicate of bug 862495

[Reece H. Dunn (msclrhd-gmail)]

Restarting the machine has fixed the issue.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

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