[IDT 92HD81B1X5] ALSA test tone not correctly played back, no sound after ALSA + Kernel upgrade

[Anugerah Erlaut]

Sound was working fine before kernel and alsa upgrade. After the upgrade, sound doesn't work anymore. It's a vital part of my everyday activity in the computer. I hope it'll be fixed soon..

Thanks,
Anugerah

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: idinkz 1564 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: idinkz 1564 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf2600000 irq 49'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7605,102802f2,00100402'
   Controls : 14
   Simple ctrls : 9
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf2110000 irq 50'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
Date: Sat Oct 23 01:23:27 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_SG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 Intel HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [IDT 92HD81B1X5] ALSA test tone not correctly played back
dmi.bios.date: 07/17/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 090TXC
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd07/17/2009:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1320:pvrNull:rvnDellInc.:rn090TXC:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1320
dmi.product.version: Null
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

What is the output from `pactl stat' in a Terminal?

[Anugerah Erlaut (dark-descension)]

Currently in use: 146 blocks containing 853.1 KiB bytes total.
Allocated during whole lifetime: 376406 blocks containing 898.8 MiB bytes total.
Sample cache size: 0 B
User name: idinkz
Host Name: idinkz-home
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 0fd0e169

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please try removing ~/.pulse* and using `killall pulseaudio'.

[Anugerah Erlaut (dark-descension)]

Deleted ~/.pulse and did 'killall pulseaudio'.

Noticed that ~/.pulse recreate itself after typing in 'killall pulseaudio' (is that supposed to happen?)

No sound yet.. >.<

[Tomas Psika (tomas-psika)]

Anugerah, try to pass "auto" model to snd-hda-intel driver.

I use customized 2.6.36 kernel (no modules) on Gentoo.

If Ubuntu kernel use snd-hda-intel as module, try this in module configuration file (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base ?). Then reboot or restart alsa:

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Hope this helps, Tomas

---

Possible regression in ALSA, so I reported this (https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5176).

[Anugerah Erlaut (dark-descension)]

Tried that already and the other models (dell-m44, dell-laptop, etc.)

Nope.. no avail yet >.<

[Tomas Psika (tomas-psika)]

You should recreate /etc/asound.state.

[Tomas Psika (tomas-psika)]

ALSA report updated.

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5176