[alsa-devel] [Alsa-user] ICH8 HDA not detected after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 25 May 2008 14:50:35 -0700,
stan wrote:
> 
> Janto Schraiber wrote:
> > I got the ASUS P5B mainboard with an Intel HDA compatible Soundchip 
> > (Analog Devices... AD 1988B afaik but I'm not realy sure about that). 
> > Under Ubunt 7.10 it works out of the box but I just recently updated 
> > to the new Ubuntu 8.04 where the card is no longer detected.
> >
> > There are some post on the web about the problem, but most deal with 
> > issues, after you get details per 'head -n 1 
> > /proc/asound/card0/codec*' or the like, but sine the card is not 
> > detected at all, i get no info from commands like that... see:
> >
> > $ cat /proc/asound/cards
> > --- no soundcards ---
> >
> > I installed the latest drivers from source, but it doesn't help. I 
> > also tried to update the kernel, etc. from the 'hardy-proposed' 
> > repository, still no luck.
> >
> > Here's the output from the 'alsa-info.sh' script:
> > http://pastebin.ca/1028944
> >
> > And here's my dmesg:
> > http://pastebin.ca/1028967
> >
> > What should I do to get my card working again?
>  From your dmesg here's the problem.
> HDA Intel: probe of 0000:00:1b.0 failed with error -16

You should have more messages than that.  It's just the end result,
not the cause...

Most likely you didn't enable CONFIG_SND_HDA_* kconfig items.  But
it's just a wild guess.


Takashi

> 
> I'm not a developer so I don't know what that means, just that it is not 
> good.
> 
> I think this is an issue for some hda-intel cards in kernel version 
> 2.6.25.  In the cases I have seen the card was working on the 24 version 
> kernel, but when they moved to 25 it stopped working.  That is, it's a 
> regression.  I don't think there is anything you can do until the 
> problem is fixed there.  Using the earlier kernel is probably not 
> possible with the rest of the system.  I don't know this, but suspect 
> it.  You could try compiling an earlier kernel on your system. 
> 
> I'll cross post this to the alsa-devel mailing list so the developers 
> become aware of the problem.
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