intrepid - regression - intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) soundcard not working on amilo xi2428

[HugoHirsch]

Binary package hint: alsa-utils

Sound worked fine a couple of days ago ... now no sound at all.

:~$ lshw -C sound
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel

:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
Intel

uname -a:
Linux shoshin 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 22 00:29:18 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Could you pleas state what version of Ubuntu you are using? If you are using Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid, could you plesae try playing audio without pulseaudio loaded? To do this, run "pulseaudio -k" from a terminal, and attempt to play audio.

Thanks.

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

As stated above: intrepid, 8.10.
~/Dokumente/mp3$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

Trying to play an audio file from console (not KDE) works fine - if I start a console in KDE I get this:

:~/Dokumente/mp3$ pulseaudio -k
[WARN 18427] polkit-session.c:144:polkit_session_set_uid(): session != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
E: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on session object.
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.
:~/Dokumente/mp3$

pulseaudio is not running (same error message as user root)

VLC:
:~/Dokumente/mp3$ vlc voice-17.wav
VLC media player 0.9.4 Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.4 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintaner-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=1ubuntu3' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-arts' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-x264' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-dv' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "de"
[00000001] main libvlc: vlc wird mit dem Standard-Interface ausgeführt. Benutzen Sie 'cvlc', um vlc ohne Interface zu verwenden.
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error:...

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

Same situation after another kernel update having the same version but a different date timestamp:

:~$ uname -a
Linux shoshin 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

Stuation got more complicated - if I change the display manager zu gdm from kdm sound is working again.
Same machine, same kernel as above.

[Alexandre Racine (alexandreracine)]

Sounds like what I had. Could you test this?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6145853#post6145853

[Alexandre Racine (alexandreracine)]

I was of course referring to the post #2 that offer a solution.

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

The volume setting is not 0 - above solution didn't change a thing.
(alsamixer -Dhw)

In contrast to post from 2008-10-25 there's no sound now.

hirsch@machine:~$ uname -a
Linux machine 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please execute the alsa-info.sh script referenced from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems and attach the URL here.

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=405a26e4a9430c039ec00b24ff0e74bcbf83ade1

Please inform the person helping you.

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

Hi,
the system currently is a 9.04 with all patches - sound is up'n'running. This bug may be closed.

Thx

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Marking this Fix Released per the last comment. Thanks.