On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
At Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:03:37 -0700, Jeff Robins wrote:
Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satellite C655D with Mageia 2 and I have a problem where the internal speakers eventually stop producing sound, but the headphones still work. After doing a bit of research and running alsa-info (attached) I figured out that one of the parts of the sound card had gone into a D3 power state.
Removing and then reloading the snd_hda_intel module fixed the problem, but then the sound would turn off again. I was able to find a post in alsa-users where someone else came up with a better solution using hda-verb to reset the power state: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg28769.html
I also found a thread in the gentoo forums where other people are having the same problem. One of them has kernel 3.5.0: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-932038.html?sid=2bee6543c63f2342057c71b...
I'm open to compiling my own alsa and helping out in any way I can. Please let me know what I can do.
Mageia bug report for completeness: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7292
OK, it's getting interesting now. We've got similar reports but so far only on Lenovo laptops with the Conexant codecs. (I'm not quite sure whether all are with CX20585. Might be with other Conexant variants?)
I asked Conexant guys to check this issue, and they informed that there is no automatic-go-to-D3 feature in the codec hardware itself. And judging from the hardware state, it looks like the class-D speaker goes down due to the over temperature. So, we concluded that this should be very likely Lenovo-specific things.
But now you reported about Toshiba laptop. It brings up again the possibility of the sound driver side... Weird.
Can it be a regression since some kernel version? The kernel regression doesn't mean necessarily a sound driver regression but might be a problem in another part like ACPI, too.
thanks,
Takashi
This never happened with Mageia 1 and I don't think it happened originally with Mageia 2, but started after updates. I was looking into a problem with there being no sound after a hibernation, when my wife told me about the current problem.
I will try to get you the current kernel version of Mageia 1 tonight, but it has been a while since I upgraded to 2. I will also play the sound for a long period in Windows to see if I have a problem there, in case it is temperature related. We never use Windows, so I don't actually know how it acts there.
Thank you,
Jeff