[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#650020: Bug#650020: alsa-utils: alsa fails to recognize VIA8237 (AD1888) - no sound (ICE1712 - OK)

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Eduard Tibet [111125 21:07 +0300]:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.23-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> alsa-utils: alsa fails to recognize VIA8237 (AD1888) - no sound (ICE1712 - OK)
> 
> After upgrading to squeeze (to be honest it was clean install of 6.0) I have no
> sound on AD1888 due to failure in recognition of my sound cards with "Unknown
> hardware: ... Hardware is initialized using a guess method" message. I'm sure
> that it is not hardware problem - I have deprecated Win XP installation so
> there sound works. Moreover recently I bought ICE1712 sound card and it works
> well on my Debian box. I digged into a web to find the solution but with now
> success - there are bug reports with such messages ("Unknown hardware:") but no
> one related exact to my problem (no sound & hardware OK). I've purged (--purge
> remove) and installed alsa-utils several times - no success.
> 
> One strange thing is this message in dmesg log ("codec_read"):
> 
> [    6.018656] VIA 82xx Audio 0000:00:11.5: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 22
> [    6.020035] VIA 82xx Audio 0000:00:11.5: setting latency timer to 64
> [    6.534469] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> [    6.541541] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> [    6.548020] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> [    6.554233] codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> 
> Other info (Please note, that for testing purpose I take my ICE1712 out - there
> are no related strings in dmesg and other log below):
> 
> == uname:
> eduardtibet at tekomspb:~$ uname -a
> Linux tekomspb 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 04:23:54 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

Either install a newer kernel or try to compile 1.0.23 drivers from
source (apt-get install alsa-source) using module-assistant.

We don't maintain such old installations.

Elimar
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