Comment 0 for bug 1110830

Crash report listed Totem as having been stopped. I was not running movie player. Please try to follow this. I had no sound from m-audio 2496 using ice1712 module , no sound issue for seven months now. My son installed a flash update to the BIOS to make it a dual boot uefi bios, and after rebooting Ubuntu 12.10 the m-audio card came up as installed, listed everywhere, and sound even WORKED for awhile. I played an internet radio station and audacious played again until I rebooted. Then audacious crashed, with "Alsa error "snd_pcm_open failed: Invalid argument." Too bad it took seven months of dicking around with this only to have it work for me for ten minutes. I don't even mind that the BIOS flash wiped out Win7 completely, I was hoping that Ubuntu would finally work for me and was overjoyed when it worked for a short while.
using Ubuntu 12.10.
uname -a
Linux brad-Z68AP-D3 3.5.0-22-lowlatency #21-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 12 15:36:50 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 Xfce desktop 4.10, Ubuntu Studio. Nvidia Geforce gtx-560Ti using Nvidia Linux-x86_64 driver version 313.09. Gigabyte GA-z68ap-d3 ver2; 8gb ddr3-2133 ram; M-audio audiophile 2496 pci soundcard. No other pci cards at this time. /proc/asound/version is alsa driver version 1.0.25.
 /proc/asound/pcm ──────────────────────┐ │
│ │01-00: ICE1712 multi : ICE1712 multi : playback 1 : capture 1│ │
Alsamixer now defaults to "Nvidia ID 16" and "this sound device does not have any controls" and resets to that if I select the M-audio card (F6) and close alsamixer. Alsamixer (F2) /proc/asound/cards now lists
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia │ │
│ │ HDA NVidia at 0xf6080000 irq 17 │ │
│ │ 1 [M2496 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96 │ │
│ │ M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xc040, irq 19

whereas prior to BIOS flash the m-audio card was not listed.
lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF114 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
 Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 1568
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 Memory at f6080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

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06:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
 Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
 I/O ports at c040 [size=32]
 I/O ports at c070 [size=16]
 I/O ports at c060 [size=16]
 I/O ports at c000 [size=64]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: snd_ice1712
I have seen others with this issue with M-audio card, Giga GA-z68ap-d3 motherboard and the Nvidia video cards. There was a breakthrough for awhile using the dual-boot bios, this became available for some of the gigabyte cards only recently. I now suspect issue is with nvidia card and PCM settings somewhere. I do not believe it is a volume issue as it was working yesterday.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.21-lowlatency 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: brad 2189 F.... xfce4-volumed
                      brad 2253 F.... pulseaudio
                      brad 2282 F.... xfce4-mixer-plu
                      brad 2950 F.... alsamixer
Date: Wed Jan 30 16:21:55 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-01 (60 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:M2496 failed
Symptom_Card: ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
Symptom_DevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: brad 2189 F.... xfce4-volumed
                      brad 2253 F.... pulseaudio
                      brad 2282 F.... xfce4-mixer-plu
                      brad 2950 F.... alsamixer
Symptom_Type: No sound at all
Title: [ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96, playback] No sound at all
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/13/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: Ua5
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: Z68AP-D3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUa5:bd06/13/2012:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ68AP-D3:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
mtime.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.alsa.base.conf: 2013-01-26T10:19:20.715318