[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#463163: alsa-base: no sound with Intel ICH8 on Dell Latitude 630

[Ross Boylan]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.15-4
Severity: normal

I tried a few things from other bug reports, without luck:
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cotton:~# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
cotton:~# ls /dev/snd
timer
cotton:~# ls /proc/asound/
cards  devices  modules  oss  pcm  seq  timers  version
cotton:~# /usr/sbin/alsa restart
Usage: /usr/sbin/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume}
cotton:~# /usr/sbin/alsa reload
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc.
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc.
cotton:~# alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
cotton:~# rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/alsa/asound.state': No such file or directory
cotton:~# amixer
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
cotton:~# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel         239160  0
snd_pcm_oss            39200  0
snd_mixer_oss          15424  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                72324  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21028  1 snd_pcm
snd                    48324  5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7520  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10056  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

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lspci shows
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)

kern.log at the same  time shows
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Jan 29 16:30:14 cotton kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
Jan 29 16:30:14 cotton kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
Jan 29 16:30:15 cotton kernel: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...
Jan 29 16:30:16 cotton kernel: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode...
Jan 29 16:30:20 cotton kernel: hda_codec: No auto-config is available, default to model=ref
Jan 29 16:30:27 cotton kernel: hda-intel: no codecs initialized
Jan 29 16:30:27 cotton kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1b.0 disabled
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I've been hoping this problem would go away, particularly since there
was a reference to its being a fixed upstream issue
(http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/getting-intel-ich8-family-rev-3-sound-card-to-work-in-gutsy/).
However, that page says it was fixed in 1.15, which is what I'm running
(also that report was for Ubuntu).  Hmm.. I just noticed
/proc/asound/version (see below) says 1.14.  Do I need a later kernel?

http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-hda-intel has
various advice, but I think that stuff is all being done by the
Debian infrastructure already (alsa, that page looks a bit dated,
maybe pre-udev).

Let me know if you need more information or have any suggestions.


-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                  Version                               Description
+++-=====================================-=====================================-==========================================================================================
ii  libasound2                            1.0.15-3                              ALSA library
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC).
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
--- no soundcards ---
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2008-01-29 16:30 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.15-4      base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.3-pre11-4   tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.15-1   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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