lpib position_fix ssid quirk addition breaks existing hardware

[Martin Wolf]

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
yesterday i upgraded to 10.04
and now my microphone records together with my voice a constant crackling.
this only happens if i used the shipped kernel 2.6.32-21. if i boot the latest
9.10 kernel (2.6.31-21) the recording works in normal quality.

the microphone is connected to an onboard hda intel card.
i also have an audigy 2 in my system. also my webcam has a mono usb soundcard.

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] (rev a1)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
05:00.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
05:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

[markku.vesala (markku-vesala)]

HOW TO GET FIXEX NO SOUND IS NO FUN I NEED CRISPY SOUND SYSTEM 5.1

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

i updated to the most recent kernel (2.6.32-22) but the problem is still present.
(i did also a fresh installation of 10.04 to eliminate upgrade problems)
the sound works but random noise kills the sound recording quality.
i would really appreciate if someone would take this bug and help me.

amixer settings:

http://pastebin.com/hdSnWdM3

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Hi Martin, we'll need to step through a multiprocess here if you're willing to bear with me.

Firstly, please try installing linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev and rebooting. If that resolves the issue, I have a good idea which change was effective.

Secondly, if that package above was insufficient, please *purge* it (linux-alsa-driver-modules*) and add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (create if necessary), then reboot:

options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

hello again,
sorry for the delay.

i tested both options but both did not help with my problem.
i still get a choppy recording quality.
im sure i did the changes correctly.
i was able to install and purge the package for my 2.6.32.22 kernel
and also edited the file with nano and put the "options" in the last line.

the only thing i remember that was not 100% smooth was the purge
because it mentioned that the update folder could not be deleted
because it is not empty.

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

the bug is still present with recent kernel.
i even removed my audigy2 in the meantime but the crackling on the microphoneport is still there.
it would be really nice if someone give me a hand.

[mikewhatever (mikewhatever)]

Same issue here, though on different hardware.
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: INTEL HDMI [INTEL HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[AceLan Kao (acelankao)]

Martin,

Could you use apport-collect to upload more logs here, thanks.
   apport-collect 572146

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

im unable to complete the task, launchpad claims that something does wrong after my login on the website.

[AceLan Kao (acelankao)]

Martin,

Could you use the following script to collect your audio info and upload the result here?
   http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

this is the alsa-info file.

[El_Presidente (natoforce)]

tested with 2.6.32-24 kernel, same error.

do you need more info?

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

@Martin, you said that it was working under Karmic. Is it possible for you to post an alsa-info being run from Karmic as well? We might be able to figure out the difference between them then. Thanks!

[El_Presidente (natoforce)]

*sigh* ;)

yes i will reinstall karmic ;)

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

@El_Presidente: are you the same person as Martin? Anyway, you don't have to install it - just run it from a Live-CD.

[El_Presidente (natoforce)]

yup i am, will try the live-cd

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
2.6.31-14-generic

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

i tested it with the live-cd and it works flawlessly.
sorry for using my "old account" it seems i accidentally logged in with the wrong email address.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Thanks!
I think this could be position_fix and/or enable_msi related. Since you've tried position_fix=1 already (according to #3), could you instead try to add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

and reboot, see if it helps, then

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0

and reboot and see if it helps?

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

im sorry but it didnt help.

at first i tried:
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

then:
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0

after that:
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1

and in the end
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0

but none of these quirks helped.

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

alsa-info file for ubuntu 10.10 alpha
(the error is also present here)

i really hope we find a solution for this, since im unable to use
my ubuntu installation now for more than 4 months ...

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

@Martin, if you use the following command to record:

pasuspender -- arecord -D plughw:Intel -f cd

...is recording still crackling?

I'm afraid we're about to run out of easy debug options - unless somebody here sees something that I don't. Harder debug options include
1) http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/XRUN_Debug and trying to understand what comes out of it.
2) Bisecting to find out what package, and ultimately commit, that is causing the problem. (E g running Karmic with a Lucid kernel)

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

unfortunately it did not help.
i used this line according to your suggestions.
pasuspender -- arecord -D plughw:Intel -f cd test.wav

there is still a noise inside the file.

i did a lot of bisecting for several problems in wine so i know how this works.
but a little assistance would be nice.

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

does it have to be a lucid kernel on karmic or is the other way round also possible?
since if you remember my first post it worked with 2.6.31-21 on lucid as well.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Right, so first thing would be to try a mainline build: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds

Assuming it is there, you can then use "git bisect" to find out the bad commit, see here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.3.3/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

how do i start from the self compiled kernel?
is there a script to put the kernel in grub and install it?

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Martin, would you mind asking in #ubuntu-kernel? There are people there who are more qualified than I when it comes to compiling and installing kernels and I hope they have time to answer you.

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

i tried now 5 hours to get a bootable kernel. i really dont know what goes wrong ...
i have ext4, ahci and the intel controller built in but ubuntu claims it does not find /
(i used config-2.6.32-24)

would it be possible to get a working config with less "modules" since it takes ages to build
the standard ubuntu config.

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

finally i was able to create a working config. i found out that the error is not present in 2.6.32 but in 2.6.32.21
now im bisecting between these two versions.

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

git bisect visualize of the last bisection step

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

git bisect visualize

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

18:53 < crimsun_> El_Presidente: well, reverting that commit breaks the original reporter's
18:53 < crimsun_> El_Presidente: so, there is no good way to go about this.
18:53 < crimsun_> El_Presidente: just use position_fix=0

[Martin Wolf (mwolf-adiumentum)]

position_fix=2 fixes the problem

the quirk added for ma-770-ud3 is for ALC888
my mainboard P35-ds4 has an ALC889A onboard.

[Alessio Gaeta (meden)]

I own an ASrock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 with a Realtec ALC888 and I had the same crackling problem (very annoying for audio calls, codec gets crazy...). Using the fix by Martin Wolf (comment #32) solved the problem.

[Cachapa (cachapa)]

I have a Sony VAIO S-series (S12C5E).

The fix in comment #32 also fixed the problem for me.

[gcc (chris+ubuntu-qwirx)]

Also affects Jay's laptop, with horrible crackling sound making Skype chats unusable. The fix in comment #32 (position_fix=2) worked for us as well.

jay@rootworks-M90:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [Quadro FX 2500M] (rev a1)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

[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.