[alsa-devel] Fwd: No sound with ATI SB450

[Ben DiDonc]

Tobin,
Unfortunately, ACPI was on at all times. My laptop hardly ever boots
without ACPI (randomly, the SATA driver fails before it can even mount
the root partition).
I ran some more tests today:
I loaded Ubuntu Edgy from the live CD where the sound chip used to
work (kernel 2.6.17, alsa driver 1.0.12rc1). Obviously the sound works
straight away. From there , I ran the same series of test: download
and build (--with-debug=detect) the next version of alsa-driver, run a
capture from mic and try playing it back, check syslog and run
alsa-info.sh. I did this for successive versions of alsa-driver
(starting with 1.0.12) until it fails.
Here are the results:

Alsa driver 1.0.12rc1(shipped with edgy):
capture: working, playback working, alsa-info.sh at http://pastebin.ca/453947

Alsa driver 1.0.12: (alsa-info.sh at http://pastebin.ca/453971 )
syslog lines after modprobe:
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
ALSA alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:663:
codec_mask = 0x9
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC861, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
ALSA alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2150: autoconfig:
line_outs=1 (0xb/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2154:    speaker_outs=0
(0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2156:    hp=0x0,
dig_out=0x0, din_in=0x0
ALSA alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2164:    inputs: mic=0xd,
fmic=0x0, line=0x0, fline=0x0, cd=0x11, aux=0x0

capture: working
//capture starting
hda_intel.c:1124: azx_pcm_prepare: bufsize=0x10000, fragsize=0x1000, format=0x11
hda_codec.c:628: hda_codec_setup_stream: NID=0x8, stream=0x1,
channel=0, format=0x11
//capture stopping
hda_codec.c:628: hda_codec_setup_stream: NID=0x8, stream=0x0,
channel=0, format=0x0

playback: working
//starting
ALSA hda_intel.c:1124: azx_pcm_prepare: bufsize=0x10000,
fragsize=0x1000, format=0x11
ALSA hda_codec.c:628: hda_codec_setup_stream: NID=0x3, stream=0x5,
channel=0, format=0x11
//stopping
ALSA hda_codec.c:628: hda_codec_setup_stream: NID=0x3, stream=0x0,
channel=0, format=0x0

alsa-driver-1.0.13 (alsa-info.sh at http://pastebin.ca/453975 )
modprobe snd-hda-intel:
hda_intel.c:680: codec_mask = 0x9
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC861, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
hda_codec.c:2164: autoconfig: line_outs=1 (0xb/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
hda_codec.c:2168:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
hda_codec.c:2172:    hp_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
hda_codec.c:2180:    inputs: mic=0xd, fmic=0x0, line=0x0, fline=0x0,
cd=0x11, aux=0x0
capture works fine, syslog output similar to 1.0.12 plus an extra
"hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead"
in the middle of the capture. Playback works fine too, with the same
syslog entries as 1.0.12


alsa-driver-1.0.14rc1 (alsa-info.sh at http://pastebin.ca/453991 )
modprobe:
ALSA hda_intel.c:696: codec_mask = 0x9
ALSA hda_codec.c:1768: hda_codec: model 'toshiba' is selected for
config 1179:ff10 (Toshiba)
Capture works (output similar to 1.0.12)
Playback does NOT work this time:
syslog shows a call to azx_pcm_prepare: and 4 calls to
hda_codec_setup_stream with different nids (3, 6 ,5, 4 as pointed out
my previous post)


alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2 (alsa-info.sh at http://pastebin.ca/453799 )
modprobe: the codec is correctly detected
ALSA hda_intel.c:696: codec_mask = 0x9
ALSA hda_codec.c:1764: hda_codec: model 'toshiba' is selected for
config 1179:ff10 (Toshiba)
Capture works. Playback does NOT work, same syslog entries as
1.0.14rc1 with multiple calls to hda_codec_setup_stream


alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3 (alsa-info.sh at http://pastebin.ca/453785 )
modprobe: the codec isnt detected.
ALSA hda_intel.c:696: codec_mask = 0x9
capture and playback dont work.

Summary: I tried alsa-driver 1.012 through to 1.0.14rc3 on ubuntu edgy
(kernel 2.6.17). 12 and 13 work fine, 14rc1 and 2 capture works but
not playback, 14rc3 doesnt detect the codec.
What next ? not sure, maybe make a diff of alsa-kernel/pci/hda-intel
between releases 13 and 14 ...