Comment 48 for bug 213206

I am still seeing this bug. I have just installed maverick (10.10) with the following kernel...

# uname -a
Linux cerebellum 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

When I run the "Sound Preferences" applet, the hardware profiles available do not list "Digital 5.1 output" or something to that effect. My motherboard is Asus P5E3 which does have the ADI® AD1988B 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC. Here is the output from "lspci -vnn"...

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8277]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 46
 Region 0: Memory at fe7f8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
  Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
  Address: 00000000fee0100c Data: 41a1
 Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
  DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
   ExtTag- RBE- FLReset+
  DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
   RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
   MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
  DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
  LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
   ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
  LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
   ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
  LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
 Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
  Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
  Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
  Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed
  Status: InProgress-
  VC0: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
   Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
   Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
   Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
  VC1: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
   Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
   Ctrl: Enable+ ID=1 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=80
   Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
 Capabilities: [130 v1] Root Complex Link
  Desc: PortNumber=0f ComponentID=00 EltType=Config
  Link0: Desc: TargetPort=00 TargetComponent=00 AssocRCRB- LinkType=MemMapped LinkValid+
   Addr: 00000000fed1c000
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

As this is my HTPC for my living room that I have brought down to rebuild into a Linux box, my family isn't happy with me right now. I am going to try and rebuild a new kernel and see if there is a config variable or another module I can load. But I hope I'm not stuck rebuilding this back into a Windows box.

I noticed a request to make this a new bug was last posted if another instance came up. First my intent is to see if I need to do something different before doing that. Any ideas?