[Compaq nx6325, AD1981] Sound gets muted

[Donald Dominko]

The sound icon is not showing that the sound is muted but the mute button is on. I have to pres the mute button twice to enable the sound again however after a few seconds the mute button switches back on (?!) (and this repeats over and over).
It might be pulse related bug. Not sure.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-36.57-generic-pae 3.2.35
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-36-generic-pae i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: donald 12697 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0x80080000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981'
   Components : 'HDA:11d41981,103c30b0,00100200 HDA:14f12bfa,103c30b0,00090000'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 10
Date: Mon Jan 21 22:25:32 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: Built-in Audio - HDA ATI SB
Symptom_Jack: Green Speaker, Internal
Symptom_Type: Sound works for a while, then breaks
Title: [HP Compaq nx6325 (EY351EA#AKN), Analog Devices AD1981, Green Speaker, Internal] fails after a while
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/08/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68TT2 Ver. F.07
dmi.board.name: 30B0
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 40.15
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: XNU63979D09
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68TT2Ver.F.07:bd05/08/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqnx6325(EY351EA#AKN):pvrF.07:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30B0:rvrKBCVersion40.15:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq nx6325 (EY351EA#AKN)
dmi.product.version: F.07
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

master playback switch should not create at speaker node

Node 0x05 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400187: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Control: name="Master Playback Switch", index=0, device=0
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x3d, nsteps=0x3f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals: [0x39 0x39]
  Pincap 0x0001173f: IN OUT HP EAPD Detect Trigger ImpSense
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80
  EAPD 0x2: EAPD
  Pin Default 0x92174110: [Fixed] Speaker at Int Front
    Conn = Analog, Color = Green
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 2
     0x03 0x0e*

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

post the output of alsa-info.sh

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

ports:
  analog-output: Analog Output (priority 9900, available: unknown)
   properties:

 active port: <analog-output>

post the pulseaudio log

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

[Donald Dominko (donald-dominko)]

AlsaInfo: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=9ab02571355a75697109f5a8895f192ca35ab3e7

PulseAudio Log: Can not recreate the bug. I got rid of it by restarting a few times and it went away (?!). Now that bug doesn't want to pop out again so .. AlsaInfo is the only useful thing I can provide at this time.

Thanks for taking a look and helping out with this!

Regards,
Donald

[Donald Dominko (donald-dominko)]

Recreated the bug. Attaching "pulseverbose.log"

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Skipping path 'analog-output-headphones', none of required-any elements preset.
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probing path 'analog-output-headphones'
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Hardware Master' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master' succeeded (volume=1, switch=1, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master Front' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master Mono' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Headphone' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Headphone2' failed.
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probing path 'analog-output-mono'
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Hardware Master' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master' succeeded (volume=2, switch=2, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master Front' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master Mono' failed.
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probing path 'analog-output-lfe-on-mono'
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Hardware Master' succeeded (volume=0, switch=0, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master' succeeded (volume=1, switch=1, enumeration=0).
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Probe of element 'Master Mono' failed.
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Available mixer paths (after tidying):
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Path Set 0x9fdecc0, direction=1
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Path analog-output (Analog Output), direction=1, priority=99, probed=yes, supported=yes, has_mute=yes, has_volume=yes, has_dB=yes, min_volume=0, max_volume=63, min_dB=-126, max_dB=15
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Element Master, direction=1, switch=1, volume=1, volume_limit=-1, enumeration=0, required=0, required_any=0, required_absent=0, mask=0x3600000000f66, n_channels=2, override_map=yes
( 0.063| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Element PCM, direction=1, switch=1, volume=1, volume_limit=-1, enumeration=0, required=0, required_any=0, required_absent=0, mask=0x3600000000f66, n_channels=2, override_map=yes

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

 since model 'hp' for all HP laptops with AD1981HD codec.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commitdiff;h=8970ccda1ae3c3b4ddd5ce366ca2cd88356d664e;hp=a182ee9876c7826d0b8f7789cb5c38c5bfbec441

if possible try the new generic auto parser and you need to remove
SND_PCI_QUIRK_VENDOR(0x103c, "HP nx", AD1981_HP) from ad1981_cfg_tbl

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commitdiff;h=657e1b931d42882cb0a59b599247bef696c22406;hp=a928bd2c565c30e5906d1ddfc21177173b2eef49

[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.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.