[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#615225: alsa-base: NVidia CK804 with ALC850 goes missing during wheezy upgrade

[Graham Cobb]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

My system was working fine with Squeeze, all the way through to the final
release.  Sound works fine using the "NVidia CK804 with ALC850" integrated in
my motherboard.

As soon as I upgraded to the wheezy testing release, however, the sound
stopped working.  KDE reported that "NVidia CK804 with ALC850" had been
removed. It did, however, find "HDA ATI HDMI" which seems to be the HDMI port
on my video card -- I believe that was also present under Squeeze but I can't
be certain.

The fix turned out to be to set "probe_mask=1" for snd-hda-intel in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.  That then causes both the ALC850 and the HDMI
port to be found.

This seems to be some sort of regression in wheezy as I did not need to specify
that in squeeze.

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                        Version                     Description
+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
ii  libasound2                  1.0.23-2.1                  shared library for ALSA applications
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [CK804          ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
                      NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22
 1 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xd1010000 irq 16
 2 [UART           ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
                      MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       80 Feb 26 00:52 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 Feb 26 00:52 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Feb 26 00:52 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 13 Feb 26 00:52 controlC2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  9 Feb 26 00:52 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Feb 26 00:52 midiC2D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Feb 26 00:52 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Feb 26 00:55 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Feb 26 00:52 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Feb 26 00:52 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 Feb 26 00:55 pcmC1D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Feb 26 00:52 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Feb 26 00:51 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE at euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE at euro)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.23+dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.12-1        tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                       166-1         /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-3   Utilities for configuring and usin

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
pn  alsa-oss                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  oss-compat                    0.0.4+nmu3 OSS compatibility package

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf changed:
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-emu10k1-synth ; : ; }
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1


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