[alsa-devel] VIA VT1828S hda_intel errors

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Nov 2 11:27:37 CET 2009


At Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:03:18 -0600,
Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > At Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:05:15 -0600,
> > Robert Hancock wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been using the VT1828S codec support from ALSA git for the last few
> >> weeks. It seems to work fine, but there are some problems showing up in
> >> dmesg:
> >>
> >> Oct 25 20:46:14 newcastle kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:683: No
> >> response from codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x02af0900
> >> Oct 25 20:46:15 newcastle kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:698:
> >> azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x02af0900
> >
> > Note that this isn't always a severe problem.  If polling mode works
> > (you don't see the similar errors after this), it means the IRQ isn't
> > properly generated at verb handling.
> >
> >> It seems like the cmd isn't always the same, previously it was
> >> 0x024f0c00. Is there something bad about this command that could be
> >> causing the response timeout?
> >
> > Hm, both aren't really same, pointing to different widgets.  So,
> > it looks like a generic problem in the codec communication on your
> > board.
> 
> Something VIA guys should look into?

Hopefully.  This is a bit hard problem to track, though...

> >> Also, disabling MSI for one occurrence of
> >> this seems a bit paranoid..
> >
> > MSI was unstable for long time, so disabling it was a sane option :)
> > Now it gets better, so it should be a second option.
> > I changed the code now.
> >
> >> Also saw one of these:
> >>
> >> Oct 26 21:13:20 newcastle kernel: hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is
> >> activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
> >>
> >> and PulseAudio also complained:
> >>
> >> Oct 26 00:27:50 newcastle pulseaudio[16530]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us
> >> up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
> >> Oct 26 00:27:50 newcastle pulseaudio[16530]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely
> >> this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this
> >> issue to the ALSA developers.
> >> Oct 26 00:27:50 newcastle pulseaudio[16530]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken
> >> up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0
> >> or another value < min_avail.
> >
> > Well, this is the case where the hardware reports bad position data.
> > This is usually a hardware bug, and hard to fix properly.  We have some
> > mechanism to correct or take back to the last position.  This should
> > usually work, but apparently not in your case...
> 
> Well, it looks like PulseAudio complained before the IRQ timing
> workaround was activated (about 20 hours earlier)..

Then try to pass bdl_pos_adj=0 option to snd-hda-intel module.
The PA complaining still present?


thanks,

Takashi


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