[alsa-devel] Issues w/ Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:33:55 -0800,
Alnie wrote:
> 
> I am having a problem getting this card working in Mint 17.1 (64bit). I
> have found reports from others around the net claiming to have this card
> working (around 2010/2011 mostly). I also tried xubuntu with the same
> results. On a fresh distro when I install the card, it is recognized but
> isn't associated with any driver, if I install the 3.16 kernel or the
> alsa-daily repo it becomes associated with a driver but I get the
> following errors from dmesg...
> 
> [    3.713183] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.0: Probing card using HDA DKMS, version 0.201502151246~ubuntu14.04.1
> [    3.720010] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.0: CORB reset timeout#1, CORBRP = 0
> [    4.744035] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.0: Codec #1 probe error; disabling it...
> [    4.748009] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.0: CORB reset timeout#1, CORBRP = 0
> [    9.772075] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.0: no AFG or MFG node found
> [    9.772100] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.0: no codecs initialized
> 
> and here is my lspci output...
> 
> 05:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG PCI to PCIe Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>      Physical Slot: 3
>      Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>      Bus: primary=05, secondary=06, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=36
>      Memory behind bridge: f4300000-f43fffff
>      Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
>      Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit+
>      Capabilities: [80] Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0040
>      Capabilities: [90] Express PCI-Express to PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00
>      Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> 
> 06:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
>      Subsystem: Creative Labs SB1040
>      Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
>      Memory at f4300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>      Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 3
>      Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
> 
> thank you for any advice & feedback on this.

Could you try 3.13 kernel or older once?  I have also another bug
report indicating a similar problem (no codec found, but with a
totally different system), and the reporter mentioned that the
regression happened between 3.13 and 3.14.


Takashi