VIA vt1720/24 no sound ubuntu 10.04

[triksteerx]

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, alsa does not detect my sound card. This has been a problem on the last three releases of Ubuntu as well. The last released the VIA vt1720/24 line of sound cards worked on was 8.04. I have tried to open alsamixer to unmute, but I get the error no file found. The ICE1724 drivers necessary for this sound card are present. I have tried all tutorials available at help.ubuntu. I was hoping the fact that 10.04 is the newest LTS would mean this would be taken a bit more seriously. The soundcard is present when I run lspci in a terminal.

[triksteerx (triksterx)]

alex@media:~$ lspci -v

02:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
 I/O ports at c000 [size=32]
 I/O ports at c400 [size=128]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: snd-ice1724

alex@media:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
alex@media:~$ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
alex@media:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_ice1724 95837 0
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 2547 1 snd_ice1724
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_ice1724
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_wavefront 33066 0
snd_cs4236 25514 0
snd_ak4xxx_adda 7364 2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_ak4114 7450 1 snd_ice1724
snd_wss_lib 23410 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_opl3_lib 8966 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_hwdep 5412 2 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mpu401 5123 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70662 6 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cs4236,snd_ak4114,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm_oss
snd_mpu401_uart 5617 3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm
snd_pt2258 2911 1 snd_ice1724
snd_i2c 4398 2 snd_ice1724,snd_pt2258
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 4 snd_ice1724,snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19098 4 snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 6 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 54148 21 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_ak4114,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pt2258,snd_i2c,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6620 1 snd

[triksteerx (triksterx)]

upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Mon Aug 23 20:38:05 UTC 2010

!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS \n \l DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer:
Product Name:

!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release: 2.6.32-21-generic
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Processor: unknown
SMP Enabled: Yes

!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version: 1.0.21
Library version: 1.0.22
Utilities version: 1.0.22

!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------

snd_mpu401

!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - Yes

ESound Daemon:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
      Running - No

!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

 1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
                      MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10

!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

02:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)

!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's
!!--------------------------------------------------------

02:0f.0 0401: 1412:1724 (rev 01)
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
!!--------------------------------

snd-atiixp-modem: index=-2
snd-intel8x0m: index=-2
snd-via82xx-modem: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2
snd-usb-us122l: index=-2
snd-usb-usx2y: index=-2
snd-usb-caiaq: index=-2
snd-cmipci: mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
snd-pcsp: index=-2

!!Loaded sound module options
!!--------------------------

!!Module: snd_mpu401
 enable : Y,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N
 id : <NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
 index : -2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2
 irq : 10,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535,65535
 pnp : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y
 port : 816,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
 uart_enter : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y

!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------

crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Aug 23 11:32 /dev/snd/controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Aug 23 11:32 /dev/snd/midiC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Aug 23 11:32 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Aug 23 11:32 /dev/snd/timer

!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!------------

APLAY

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
...

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Well you seem to be in a pinch,
what i did when the sound was not working on my pc, was just to take a old pci card and it worked fine so maybe you can try that.
Cheers

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

And try
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Does this bug still affect you, and did you try the sound troubleshooting guide i sent you.
Cheers

[triksteerx (triksterx)]

The guide was very informative, unfortunately I had already been through that one a couple times with no results. Thank you though for pointing me somewhere other than the help.ubuntu sound problems page that seems to be the default "start here so we can ignore you" answer for sound issues.

I installed a new sound card to get sound up and running, but never was able to get my VT1720/24 working. Sorry I didn't follow through with my post, but launchpad is somewhat of a joke, so I don't bother posting here anymore. If I get to the point I have to report a bug here I just write it off as unfixable now, since it seems like 99% of the answers I get are help.ubuntu guides that I have already tried at least once before posting here or having my thread title changed to, or merged with, something completely unrelated so the odds of someone who has experience with the problem finding the thread in a search are nearly non existant.

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