[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#637620: Bug#637620: alsa-base: No sound with Realtek ALC889A card

[Peter .]

Elimar,

I thought I had included that information in the original report, please find it attached.

As for which card is in use, perhaps you could help me answer this and we can make more sense out of my report after I describe how the system was working.  There is an onboard sound card for this motherboard and an nvidia GT 240.  I was receiving sound via the hdmi connection to the nvidia card prior to Wednesday.  I originally had some trouble getting sound to work in the first place this way and yielded success after running modprobe -i snd_hda_intel.  

Now, after your question about what card was used I decided to try another route which was to unplug the hdmi connection and leverage the hdi connection with a stereo out to the tv speakers, and suddenly sound is now available.  Ii think we can thus somewhat narrow the scope of the problem to sound via hdmi connection of the Nvidia card.

Here are some notes regarding what I did to get sound to work before it stopped last week.
5.  Installation of nvidia proprietary driver (taints kernel) fails
from Nvidia's script.  Problem here is that CC string now "GCC 4.4"
instead of "GCC-4.3" - version check dies if it isn't in quotes and
script dies because it's not handling the space in the string.  Success
with debian package, glxgears reports about 6X increase fps on this
GeForce GT 240 versus the 6150, so something has succeeded here. 6. 
The sound card failed to be detected. lspci reported the card Audio
device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
but aplay reports no device found, alsamixer seg-faulted and apparently
someone thought there was no valid use case for alsaconf.  After much
hunting I was able to get a sound card to appear after manually running
modprobe snd-hda-intel.  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1681577http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVidia_GeForce_G210,_GT220,_or_GT240)  http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2011-February/036418.html 7. 
After adding the tweaks presented in the last forum and still getting
no sound, checked suggests on alsa-base and installed them. 
Additionally reloaded alsa and killed pulse.  HDMI sound success, will
find out if it stays after next reboot.

> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:25:05 +0200
> From: riesebie at lxtec.de
> To: peter_murdoch770 at hotmail.com; 637620 at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#637620: alsa-base: No sound with Realtek ALC889A card
> 
> * Crispy [110813 00:35 -0500]:
> 
> > Package: alsa-base
> > Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-4
> > Severity: important
> 
> [...]
> 
> > --- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
> >  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> >                       HDA Intel at 0xfbff8000 irq 46
> >  1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
> >                       HDA NVidia at 0xfaffc000 irq 17
> > --- End /proc/asound/cards ---
> 
> Which of those cards are connected with your speakersystem?
> 
> Please tell us the output of
> 
> # lsmod | grep snd
> 
> Elimar
> 
> -- 
>   We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
>         -- Linus Torvalds
 		 	   		  
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