Sound device not detected on Nvidia card using nouveau driver

[Paul Hewlett]

I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04. The HDMI device on my Nvidia graphics card disappeared. I have the following:

- tried the Nvidia-310, Nvidia-304 drivers
- reverted to the Nouveau driver
- purged and re-installed pulseaudio.

I also ran pavucontrol - this allowed me to specify the HDMI channel 3 (which corresponded to the Nvidia card) in the configuration
and I then ran the Sound settings dialog from System Settings. Sound still did not work.

Incidental issues which may or may not be important:

- rebooting the PC is flaky - some times the system just hangs waiting for the network card to configure. -
- I once had a kernel panic because of an illegal paging request from the snd-hda-intel driver

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:3.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-18.28-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: paul 5631 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: paul 5631 F.... pulseaudio
Date: Thu Apr 18 12:14:43 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-10 (129 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Symptom_Jack: Digital Out, HDMI
Title: [MotherBoard H67ITX-C-E, Nvidia GPU 0b HDMI/DP, Digital Out, HDMI] Pulseaudio fails to detect card
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-15 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/13/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.6.4
dmi.board.asset.tag: NA
dmi.board.name: H67ITX-C-E
dmi.board.vendor: ZOTAC
dmi.board.version: 02/03/05
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: NA
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: NA
dmi.chassis.version: NA
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.4:bd04/13/2012:svnMotherBoardByZOTAC:pnMotherBoardH67ITX-C-E:pvrMotherBoard02/03/05:rvnZOTAC:rnH67ITX-C-E:rvr02/03/05:cvnNA:ct3:cvrNA:
dmi.product.name: MotherBoard H67ITX-C-E
dmi.product.version: MotherBoard 02/03/05
dmi.sys.vendor: MotherBoard By ZOTAC

[Paul Hewlett (phewlett76)]

I followed this link : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS and installed the package.

My Nvidia device has now moved from Card 2 to Card 1 and the system settings->sounds dialog now shows a HDMI/displayport 2 device.

I no longer get random crashes of the kernel from snd_hda_intel module.

Pulse audio no longer reports that it cannot initialise the device. Current error report from pulseaudio is:

Apr 22 12:43:28 Feynmann pulseaudio[3089]: [pulseaudio] source.c: Default and alternate sample rates are the same.
Apr 22 12:43:33 Feynmann pulseaudio[3694]: [pulseaudio] source.c: Default and alternate sample rates are the same.
Apr 22 12:43:33 Feynmann pulseaudio[3694]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!
Apr 22 12:43:33 Feynmann pulseaudio[3694]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.
Apr 22 12:43:33 Feynmann pulseaudio[3735]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Apr 22 12:50:04 Feynmann pulseaudio[4982]: [pulseaudio] source.c: Default and alternate sample rates are the same.
Apr 22 12:50:04 Feynmann pulseaudio[4982]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!
Apr 22 12:50:04 Feynmann pulseaudio[4982]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.

Which does not look serious.

However sound still does not work.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hi Paul,

The OOPS in comment #2 is definitely same as bug 1169984.

As for HDMI Audio + Nouveau, I don't know much about how well it works;
I usually recommend people to use proprietary drivers for both Nvidia
and ATI/AMD.

On 04/22/2013 02:09 PM, Paul Hewlett wrote:
> Hi David
>
> I have concluded that this is not pulseaudio - the fault is not finding
> a working profile (which is alsa)
>
> I installed the latest alsa drivers and now the 'work profile' error
> message no longer appears.
>
> I have reported this in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1170315
>
> Sound still does not work...
>
> Regards
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 22 April 2013 10:23, David Henningsson
> <<email address hidden>
> <mailto:<email address hidden>>> wrote:
>
> On 04/20/2013 06:03 PM, Paul Hewlett wrote:
>
>
> Hi all
>
> In a fit of madness I upgraded to 13.04 and now my sound on my
> Nvidia
> card is not recognised.
>
> The error I get is:
>
> Apr 20 16:45:44 Feynmann pulseaudio[9714]: [pulseaudio]
> module.c: Failed
> to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="2"
> name="pci-0000_01_00.1" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000___01_00.1"
> namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no
> deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=no
> card_properties="module-udev-__detect.discovered=1""):
> initialization failed.
> Apr 20 16:45:44 Feynmann pulseaudio[9714]: [pulseaudio] source.c:
> Default and alternate sample rates are the same.
> Apr 20 16:45:44 Feynmann pulseaudio[9714]: [pulseaudio] module.c:
> module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink
> instead of
> module-combine!
> Apr 20 16:45:44 Feynmann pulseaudio[9714]: [pulseaudio]
> module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please
> make sure
> to remove module-combine from your configuration.
>
> The error seems to be the identical default and alternate sample
> rates ....
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to change
> this? I have
> tried 'paman', 'pavucontrol' and others to no avail.
>
> AFAICS the pulseaudio is configured to use module-udev-detect
> which in
> turn loads module-alsa-card.
>
> Any pointers appreciated
>
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/__ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/__1169984
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1169984>
>
> ...seems to hit a lot of machines recently. I've submitted a fix but
> it is not yet released through the archive.
>
>
> --
> David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
> https://launchpad.net/~diwic
>
>
>
>
> --
> Tel: [phone]
> LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hewlett/0/629/9b4
>
>

--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic

[Paul Hewlett (phewlett76)]

Sound now works when I use the 'aplay' command.

/usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/test.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono

The major issue seems to be fixed.

However playing a test sound from the 'System settings->sound' dialog still does not work. No indication why.

[Paul Hewlett (phewlett76)]

Seeing as 13.04 is officially released I uninstalled the oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms_0.201304220024~raring1_all.deb pacakage as recommended. Sound has now disappeared.

So this is a critical bug for my setup - the latest alsa drivers should become the default (oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms_0.201304220024~raring1_all.deb) at least in my case

[madbiologist (me-again)]

There was a fix for the no HDMI audio on Raring issue (reported in bug 1169984) in the Raring 3.8.0-22.33 kernel update a while ago. If you still have no HDMI audio, and you have an NV84 or NVA3 chip (see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/) this should be fixed in the upstream 3.10 kernel for the NV84. There is a corresponding patch for the NVA3 which will be included either in the upstream 3.11 kernel or the upstream 3.12 kernel. PPA's of these kernels can/will be found at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and instructions on how to install and uninstall them are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

[ 8.868893] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88042428ffe0
[ 8.869379] IP: [<ffffffffa0637730>] patch_generic_hdmi+0xe0/0x550 [snd_hda_codec_hdmi]
[ 8.869814] PGD 4c0e063 PUD bf4d1067 PMD 4240df063 PTE 800000042428f161
[ 8.870245] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
[ 8.870671] Modules linked in: coretemp kvm_intel kvm gpio_ich snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek nvidia(POF) uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc dm_multipath(F) videobuf2_memops scsi_dh(F) videobuf2_core videodev arc4(F) snd_hda_intel(+) snd_usb_audio snd_hda_codec snd_usbmidi_lib rt2800pci snd_hwdep(F) rt2800lib snd_pcm(F) rt2x00pci joydev(F) rt2x00lib snd_page_alloc(F) parport_pc(F) snd_seq_midi(F) mac80211 snd_seq_midi_event(F) microcode(F) ppdev(F) snd_rawmidi(F) cfg80211 bnep serio_raw(F) rfcomm snd_seq(F) snd_seq_device(F) bluetooth snd_timer(F) lpc_ich eeprom_93cx6 crc_ccitt(F) snd(F) soundcore(F) mac_hid mei lp(F) parport(F) nfsd(F) binfmt_misc(F) auth_rpcgss(F) nfs_acl(F) nfs(F) lockd(F) sunrpc(F) fscache(F) nls_iso8859_1(F) ext2(F) btrfs(F) zlib_deflate(F) libcrc32c(F) raid10(F) raid456(F) async_memcpy(F) async_raid6_recov(F) async_pq(F) async_xor(F) xor(F) async_tx(F) raid6_pq(F) raid0(F) multipath(F) linear(F) raid1(F) hid_logitech_dj usbhid hid ghash_clmulni_intel(F) aesni_intel(F) aes_x86_64(F) xts(F) lrw(F) gf128mul(F) ablk_helper(F) cryptd(F) r8169 ahci(F) libahci(F)
[ 8.876024] CPU 2
[ 8.876031] Pid: 899, comm: modprobe Tainted: PF O 3.8.0-18-generic #28-Ubuntu MotherBoard By ZOTAC MotherBoard H67ITX-C-E/H67ITX-C-E
[ 8.877612] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0637730>] [<ffffffffa0637730>] patch_generic_hdmi+0xe0/0x550 [snd_hda_codec_hdmi]
[ 8.878765] RSP: 0018:ffff880424f2dac0 EFLAGS: 00010283
[ 8.879358] RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000000000004
[ 8.879961] RDX: ffff88042428ffd8 RSI: ffff88042428ffe0 RDI: ffff880422f9c420
[ 8.880567] RBP: ffff880424f2daf8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000002
[ 8.881179] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880422f9c000
[ 8.881791] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: ffff880424290000
[ 8.882399] FS: 00007f9aec2b6740(0000) GS:ffff88043f480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 8.883022] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 8.883647] CR2: ffff88042428ffe0 CR3: 000000042056d000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[ 8.884286] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 8.884935] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 8.885584] Process modprobe (pid: 899, threadinfo ffff880424f2c000, task ffff8804222e9740)
[ 8.886256] Stack:
[ 8.886914] 00000000ffffffff ffffffffa0630004 ffffffffa06393a8 0000000000000000
[ 8.887597] ffff880422f9c000 00000000ffffffff ffffffffa063b000 ffff880424f2db58
[ 8.888289] ffffffffa05e2186 6430313a41444858 30312c6230303065 302c313031306564
[ 8.888988] Call Trace:
[ 8.889673] [<ffffffffa05e2186>] snd_hda_codec_configure+0x146/0x440 [snd_hda_codec]
[ 8.890373] [<ffffffffa05942f0>] azx_probe_continue+0x3a0/0x4f0 [snd_hda_intel]
[ 8.891067] [<ffffffffa05928b0>] ? azx_attach_pcm_stream+0x1e0/0x1e0 [snd_hda_intel]
[ 8.8...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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