[alsa-devel] Alsa 1.0.13 (and others) does not work on ALC880

Eric erdv38 at gmail.com
Mon May 14 15:00:32 CEST 2007


I installed Ubuntu Feisty on a D900t laptop : it contains a ALC880 audio
chipset 

eric at gondor:~$ lspci |grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)

When modprobing the modules I get :
eric at gondor:~$ sudo modprobe -v snd-hda-intel model=3stack-digout
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko model=3stack-digout

while /var/log/messages says :
May 14 14:42:45 gondor kernel: [ 3699.070904] hda_intel:
azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...


Feisty dist. is provided with alsa-1.0.13. I get no sound, here are the
results of aplay :

eric at gondor:~$ aplay
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:867:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave)
snd_pcm_hw_params_any failed
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:876:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave
aplay: main:550: Erreur d'ouverture audio: Argument invalide
eric at gondor:~$ 

Here are some other infos :

eric at gondor:~$ tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
0: Realtek ALC880
1: SAA7134 Mixer

amixer shows this :
eric at gondor:~$ amixer 
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [on]
  Front Right: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 228 [89%]
  Front Right: Playback 228 [89%]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 60 [47%] [-2144.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 60 [47%] [-2144.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 55 [43%] [-2304.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 55 [43%] [-2304.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [50%] [-2016.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [50%] [-2016.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono: Playback 56 [44%] [-2272.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono: Playback 58 [46%] [-2208.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 60 [47%] [-2144.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 60 [47%] [-2144.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 58 [46%] [-2208.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 58 [46%] [-2208.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 57 [45%] [-2240.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 57 [45%] [-2240.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 53 [42%] [-2368.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 53 [42%] [-2368.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 127
  Front Left: Capture 31 [24%] [-3072.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 31 [24%] [-3072.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 127
  Front Left: Capture 27 [21%] [-3200.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 27 [21%] [-3200.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',2
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 127
  Front Left: Capture 24 [19%] [-3296.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 24 [19%] [-3296.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Caller ID',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: '2ch' '6ch'
  Item0: '6ch'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',2
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Off-hook',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]

aplay -l seems to work :

eric at gondor:~$ aplay -l
**** Liste des PLAYBACK périphériques ****
carte  0: Intel [HDA Intel], périphérique 0 : ALC880 Analog [ALC880
Analog]
  Sous-périphériques: 1/1
  Sous-périphérique: #0: subdevice #0
carte  0: Intel [HDA Intel], périphérique 1 : ALC880 Digital [ALC880
Digital]
  Sous-périphériques: 1/1
  Sous-périphérique: #0: subdevice #0
carte  0: Intel [HDA Intel], périphérique 6 : Si3054 Modem [Si3054
Modem]
  Sous-périphériques: 1/1
  Sous-périphérique: #0: subdevice #0


eric at gondor:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xb0000000 irq 17
 1 [SAA7134        ]: SAA7134 - SAA7134
                      saa7133[0] at 0xb3006000 irq 22

if I try to do a cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 it hangs
while /var/log/messages gives a lot of

May 14 14:44:52 gondor kernel: [ 3825.457412] hda_codec: invalid
dep_range_val 0:7fff
May 14 14:44:52 gondor kernel: [ 3825.457696] hda_codec: invalid
dep_range_val 0:7fff
........................

eric at gondor:~$ sudo lspci -nv
00:00.0 0600: 8086:2580 (rev 04)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:01.0 0604: 8086:2581 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: b1000000-b2ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: c0000000-cfffffff
        Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: 8086:2582
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:2668 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0

00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=32]

00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at 3020 [size=32]

00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        I/O ports at 3040 [size=32]

00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at b0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=0a, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=32
        I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
        Memory behind bridge: b3000000-b30fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge:
0000000050000000-0000000055ffffff
        Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: 1558:0900

00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2640 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        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 3080 [size=16]

00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at 3060 [size=32]

01:00.0 0300: 10de:00c8 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at b2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at b1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint IRQ 0

0a:00.0 0607: 104c:ac50 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 17
        Memory at b3007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=0a, secondary=0b, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 50000000-53fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 58000000-5bfff000
        I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
        I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0a:01.0 0c00: 104c:8023 (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
        Memory at b3004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Memory at b3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0a:02.0 0104: 105a:3373 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 4480 [size=64]
        I/O ports at 44c0 [size=16]
        I/O ports at 4400 [size=128]
        Memory at b3005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at b3020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

0a:03.0 0200: 10ec:8169 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: 1558:0900
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
        Memory at b3004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 54000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

0a:04.0 0480: 1131:7133 (rev f0)
        Subsystem: 1461:f31e
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
        Memory at b3006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

0a:05.0 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 1462:6833
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
        Memory at b3008000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

asoundconf output :
eric at gondor:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
Intel
SAA7134

I tried a lot of workarounds but none worked : boot options (irqpoll,
pci=noacpi), single_cmd=1, position_fix=1, several models of hda-intel
driver, I tried 1.0.13 and 1.0.14rc4 driver, with debug on... 

I must add that I already had this problem with previous distributions
of Ubuntu. It worked with an old one (Breezy) then in Dapper and Edgy,
it did worked ONLY when I self-compiled the driver with debug option
enabled I never understood why. And now with Feisty/alsa 1.0.13/ubuntu
kernel 2.6.20, or an ubuntu kernel with self-compiled alsa 1.0.14rc4, it
does not work. I cannot have one sound :-(.

Please help me ....


Eric







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