No sound with Realtek Codec ALC1200

[123vier]

After upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 the sound stopped working completely.

aplay -l says 'no sound cards found'

The soundcard is onboard, my mainboard is an ASUS M3N78-EM.

cat /proc/asound/cards on the other hand tells me

" 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfce78000 irq 21"

and "head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*" gives me

"==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Realtek ALC1200

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#3 <==
Codec: Generic 10de NVIDIA MCP78 HDMI"

Setting various options in alsa-base.conf like "options 3-stack, model=auto etc. " didn't help.

I'm not using the HDMI output nor the optical one, so I don't know if those would work.

The Sound Applet can't find any hardware either beside the dummy-output.

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-10-30 21:26 by-path
AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer', '/dev/seq'] failed with exit code 1:
CheckboxCommand: alsa_record_playback
CheckboxDescription:
 Open the volume control application by right-clicking on the speaker icon in the panel and selecting "Sound Preferences". Select the "Input" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). Select the "Output" tab and choose any alternate (non-default) device(s). When you are done, click the Test button, then speak into the microphone. After a few seconds, your speech will be played back to you.

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CheckboxTest: alsa_record_playback_alternates
Date: Fri Oct 30 21:41:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=de_AT.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2640): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2662): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2683): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This is Jaunty's kernel. Please use Karmic's kernel instead if you
plan to use Karmic.

[123vier (flowrist)]

Why didn't it happen on its own during the upgrade?

[123vier (flowrist)]

I remember now. This is probably caused by the bug where the they forgot to include a script that updated grub after one of the last updates during the alpha stage of karmic.

[123vier (flowrist)]

Updating the menu.lst and consequentially upgrading to the new kernel did the trick!

[valde (valdecinos)]

alguem sabe o que acontece quando atualiza o 9,04 para 9.10 e fica sem som?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

solamente en ingles, por favor

[marcos zago (mdzguard-orb)]

How can I update menu.lst???

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

sudo update-grub

On Oct 31, 2009 10:00 PM, "marcos zago" <email address hidden> wrote:

How can I update menu.lst???

-- No sound with Realtek Codec ALC1200
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[vermeer (vermeer-grange)]

solved my issue! Thanks so much!

For info my soundcard and drivers are :

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at e5100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

Codec: Realtek ALC883

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Thanks for the feedback.