[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#511658: Bug#511658: alsa-base: AMD64 No Sound

Mike Lewis cajun2112 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 22:42:33 UTC 2009


Hey Elimar,

I found a document on the web [1] that said "I also noted on the alsa
web site that sometimes an ALC889A can be misidentified as an ALC885
when in fact it is closer to an ALC888/ALC883."

So, using that, I've tried some of the models listed for the
ALC883/888 with limited success. Right now, in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, I have the following appended:

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 model=3stack-6ch-dig index=0 position_fix=1

I've had some limited success using that line and a combination of:

rmmod snd-hda-intel
modprobe -v snd-hda-intel

When I hit the right combination, I can hear a small 'click' in the
speakers. Then I know it will work.
Although, it has not yet worked after a reboot. I know it sounds
silly, but it only seems to work after waiting
a while after a reboot. Maybe 30 minutes or so. Like it is waiting for
something to time out, or perhaps it's a race
condition. I don't know. Just trying explain what I've tried and under
what conditions it works.

Right now, the sound is working fine. Again, using the above instructions.

I'll hang in there until the weekend when you have something to test
with. It's awfully frustrating to have a machine
that you know will produce sound, but just won't produce it using the
64-bit code.

Thanks,
Mike

Here's the output of lspci -v:

moe:~# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5000
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32

00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI
Express Graphics Port 0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
        Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fcffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable+
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5000
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
(prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device b005
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at fe00 [size=4]
        I/O ports at fd00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at fc00 [size=4]
        I/O ports at fb00 [size=16]
        Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller
(EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        Memory at fe029000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [e4] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00e0
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 4385
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
        I/O ports at 0b00 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
        Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
        Kernel modules: i2c-piix4

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a
[Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5002
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at f900 [size=16]
        Kernel driver in use: ATIIXP_IDE
        Kernel modules: ata_generic, atiixp, ide-pci-generic

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5001
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
(prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: fdf00000-fdffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [f0] Secure device <?>
        Kernel driver in use: k8temp
        Kernel modules: k8temp

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce
7600 GT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 2220
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
        Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Kernel modules: nvidiafb

02:06.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast
Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
        Subsystem: ADMtek Device 0574
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
        Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: tulip
        Kernel modules: tulip

02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device e000
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        Memory at fdffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde20000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169



On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> * Mike Lewis [090113 15:41 -0600]
>> Yes, that is correct. No sound except the occasional beep from the PC speaker.
>>
>> moe:~# modprobe -v snd_hwdep && cat /proc/asound/cards
>> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/kernel/sound/core/snd-hwdep.ko
>> --- no soundcards ---
>> moe:~#
>
> Hmmm, I'll have an amd64 with an snd-intel handy at the weekend.
> Could you please be patient?
>
> Meanwhile you can send the output of (as root):
>
> # lspci -v
>
> Thanks
> Elimar
>
> --
>  On the keyboard of life you have always
>  to keep a finger at the escape key;-)
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