[alsa-devel] "No codecs found" on Intel HDA + AD1988A

[Alexander Chemeris]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> At Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:28:04 +0300,
> Alexander Chemeris wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for mail burst...
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>> > At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:57:04 +0300,
>> > Alexander Chemeris wrote:
>> > Anyway, try to build with --debug=verbose configure option.  Usually
>> > you'll have a bit more messages.
>> > At least, you'll get a message like "codec_mask = 0xxxx" at probing.
>> > If the value is zero, it means that your hardware doesn't set the
>> > codec slot bit, usually a BIOS issue.
>>
>> If I manually set codec_mask to 0xf I get following output:
>>
>> [  634.273106] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 22
>> [  634.273133] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
>> [  634.273138] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:2216: chipset
>> global capabilities = 0x4401
>> [  634.304568] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:786: Overriding
>> codecs probe mask
>> [  634.304574] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:793: codec_mask = 0xf
>> [  635.308511] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:633: hda_intel:
>> azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last
>> cmd=0x000f0000
>> [  636.313617] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1277: hda_intel:
>> Codec #0 probe error; disabling it...
>> [  637.348012] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1277: hda_intel:
>> Codec #1 probe error; disabling it...
>> [  638.384508] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1277: hda_intel:
>> Codec #2 probe error; disabling it...
>> [  639.420508] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1277: hda_intel:
>> Codec #3 probe error; disabling it...
>> [  639.452023] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:786: Overriding
>> codecs probe mask
>> [  639.452029] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:793: codec_mask = 0xf
>> [  640.456014] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:648: hda_intel:
>> azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last
>> cmd=0x000f0000
>> [  640.457380] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:706: hda-intel:
>> get_response timeout: IRS=0x1
>> [  640.458587] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xf0001
>> [  640.459641] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xf0002
>> [  640.460709] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xf0004
>> [  640.460716] ALSA
>> /home/ipse/packages/alsa-git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:783:
>> hda_codec: no AFG or MFG node found
>> [  640.462509] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x100f0000
>> [  640.463624] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x100f0000
>> [  640.464731] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x100f0001
>> [  640.465795] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x100f0002
>> [  640.466858] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x100f0004
>> [  640.466864] ALSA
>> /home/ipse/packages/alsa-git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:783:
>> hda_codec: no AFG or MFG node found
>> [  640.468730] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:688: hda-intel:
>> send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x200f0000
>> [  640.470038] ALSA
>> /home/ipse/packages/alsa-git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:783:
>> hda_codec: no AFG or MFG node found
>> [  640.471210] ALSA
>> /home/ipse/packages/alsa-git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:783:
>> hda_codec: no AFG or MFG node found
>> [  640.471217] ALSA alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1303: hda-intel:
>> no codecs initialized
>> [  640.472915] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A disabled
>>
>> So it looks  like codec is not present or is not recognized...
>> Is it possible, or my hardware looks like broken?
>
> The probing control might not be perfect.  At least you can try to
> enable only one slot at each probe, e.g. probe_mask=1, probe_mask=2,
> probe_mask=4, and probe_mask=8.
>
> If all of these don't work, it should be really a deeper issue.

Seems this does not help. What else could I try?


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