problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[forwind]

Hi folks,

I am having difficulty getting a friends on-board speakers working on
her laptop. After some reading of forums I'm not sure whether there is a
solution for this or not ?

The setup and details can be read below. The headphones work fine but
the speakers are mute even though nothing is muted. I installed from
source alsa version 1.0.15rc3 but to no avail.


ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Thu Jan 17 23:21:23 GMT 2008
http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
Linux laura-laptop 2.6.22-14-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Dec 18 10:01:34
UTC
2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
snd_rtctimer            4384  1
snd_hda_intel         291616  1
snd_pcm_oss            43264  0
snd_mixer_oss          17664  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                80132  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           4740  0
snd_seq_oss            33792  0
snd_seq_midi            9600  0
snd_rawmidi            25728  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8576  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                54128  7
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              24324  3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9228  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    55428  13
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
Warning: module config file does not exist
This means any kernel modules will not be auto loaded
See your linux distro docs on how to create this file

Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15rc3.
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 22
  2:        : timer
  3:        : sequencer
  4: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
  5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
  6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  8: [ 0- 1]: hardware dependent
  9: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
 10: [ 0]   : control
00-01: HDA Codec 1
00-00: HDA Codec 0
00-02: ALC883 Analog : ALC883 Analog : capture 2
00-01: ALC883 Digital : ALC883 Digital : playback 1
00-00: ALC883 Analog : ALC883 Analog : playback 1 : capture 2
Client info
  cur  clients : 4
  peak clients : 4
  max  clients : 192

Client   0 : "System" [Kernel]
  Port   0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
  Port   1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
    Connecting To: 15:0
Client  14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
  Port   0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
Client  15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
  Port   0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
    Connected From: 0:1
Client 128 : "TiMidity" [User]
  Port   0 : "TiMidity port 0" (-We-)
  Port   1 : "TiMidity port 1" (-We-)
  Port   2 : "TiMidity port 2" (-We-)
  Port   3 : "TiMidity port 3" (-We-)
  Output pool :
    Pool size          : 500
    Cells in use       : 0
    Peak cells in use  : 0
    Alloc success      : 0
    Alloc failures     : 0
  Input pool :
    Pool size          : 1000
    Cells in use       : 0
    Peak cells in use  : 0
    Alloc success      : 0
    Alloc failures     : 0

Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
controlC0  hwC0D0  hwC0D1  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D2c  seq 
timer

CPU -------------------------------------------------------
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz
cpu MHz         : 2001.000
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz
cpu MHz         : 2001.000

RAM -------------------------------------------------------
MemTotal:      1028132 kB
SwapTotal:     3028212 kB

Hardware --------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 03)

does this sound familiar or is everybody blue in the face from hearing
about this 'bug' :)?

Best regards,
Conor

Re: problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:30:37 +0000,
forwind wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am having difficulty getting a friends on-board speakers working on
> her laptop. After some reading of forums I'm not sure whether there is a
> solution for this or not ?
> 
> The setup and details can be read below. The headphones work fine but
> the speakers are mute even though nothing is muted. I installed from
> source alsa version 1.0.15rc3 but to no avail.

It's a VERY old version.  Try to install the latest ALSA HG version or
the daily snapshot tarball.  If it still doesn't work, check the codec
from /proc/asound/card0/codec#* file, and try to pass model option
values listed in ALSA-Configuration.txt.


Takashi

Re: problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[Forwinder]

Takashi wrote:

>It's a VERY old version.  Try to install the latest ALSA HG version or
>the daily snapshot tarball.  If it still doesn't work, check the codec
>from /proc/asound/card0/codec#* file, and try to pass model option
>values listed in ALSA-Configuration.txt.

I installed 1.0.15 from the website and had to add 'acer-aspire' as an
option inorder to get it to work. With 'acer' as the option the
speakers worked but the headphones didn't but 'acer-aspire' as the
option the speakers and headphones worked but the speakers did not mute
when headphones were plugged into the socket.

now it's working pretty okay.

Thanks for the help,
Conor


On 1/21/2008, "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

>At Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:30:37 +0000,
>forwind wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am having difficulty getting a friends on-board speakers working on
>> her laptop. After some reading of forums I'm not sure whether there is a
>> solution for this or not ?
>>
>> The setup and details can be read below. The headphones work fine but
>> the speakers are mute even though nothing is muted. I installed from
>> source alsa version 1.0.15rc3 but to no avail.
>
>It's a VERY old version.  Try to install the latest ALSA HG version or
>the daily snapshot tarball.  If it still doesn't work, check the codec
>from /proc/asound/card0/codec#* file, and try to pass model option
>values listed in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
>
>
>Takashi

Re: problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:49:00 +0000,
Forwinder wrote:
> 
> Takashi wrote:
> 
> >It's a VERY old version.  Try to install the latest ALSA HG version or
> >the daily snapshot tarball.  If it still doesn't work, check the codec
> >from /proc/asound/card0/codec#* file, and try to pass model option
> >values listed in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
> 
> I installed 1.0.15 from the website and had to add 'acer-aspire' as an
> option inorder to get it to work. With 'acer' as the option the
> speakers worked but the headphones didn't but 'acer-aspire' as the
> option the speakers and headphones worked but the speakers did not mute
> when headphones were plugged into the socket.
> 
> now it's working pretty okay.

Good to hear.  Could you show the output of "lspci -nv" for the audio
device?  We can add the entry for your device so that the driver works
without an extra model option.


thanks,

Takashi

Re: problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[forwind]

Takashi wrote:
> Good to hear.  Could you show the output of "lspci -nv" for the audio
> device?  We can add the entry for your device so that the driver works
> without an extra model option.

I think this is what you are after:

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1071:8253
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at fc300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0

hope this helps.

Conor

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 18:01 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:49:00 +0000,
> Forwinder wrote:
> > 
> > Takashi wrote:
> > 
> > >It's a VERY old version.  Try to install the latest ALSA HG version or
> > >the daily snapshot tarball.  If it still doesn't work, check the codec
> > >from /proc/asound/card0/codec#* file, and try to pass model option
> > >values listed in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
> > 
> > I installed 1.0.15 from the website and had to add 'acer-aspire' as an
> > option inorder to get it to work. With 'acer' as the option the
> > speakers worked but the headphones didn't but 'acer-aspire' as the
> > option the speakers and headphones worked but the speakers did not mute
> > when headphones were plugged into the socket.
> > 
> > now it's working pretty okay.
> 
> Good to hear.  Could you show the output of "lspci -nv" for the audio
> device?  We can add the entry for your device so that the driver works
> without an extra model option.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi

Re: problems with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:55:13 +0000,
forwind wrote:
> 
> Takashi wrote:
> > Good to hear.  Could you show the output of "lspci -nv" for the audio
> > device?  We can add the entry for your device so that the driver works
> > without an extra model option.
> 
> I think this is what you are after:
> 
> 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
>         Subsystem: 1071:8253
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
>         Memory at fc300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>         Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
> 
> hope this helps.

Hm, this is already listed as model=mitac.

Just to be sure: without the model option, what actually doesn't work?

Also, don't use 1.0.15 but use the HG version or the daily snapshot
version as I requested.  1.0.15 is too old to debug, too.

Note that 1.0.16rc1 has a bug that may won't be built on some old
kernels.  It was already fixed today.


Takashi

> 
> Conor
> 
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 18:01 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:49:00 +0000,
> > Forwinder wrote:
> > > 
> > > Takashi wrote:
> > > 
> > > >It's a VERY old version.  Try to install the latest ALSA HG version or
> > > >the daily snapshot tarball.  If it still doesn't work, check the codec
> > > >from /proc/asound/card0/codec#* file, and try to pass model option
> > > >values listed in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
> > > 
> > > I installed 1.0.15 from the website and had to add 'acer-aspire' as an
> > > option inorder to get it to work. With 'acer' as the option the
> > > speakers worked but the headphones didn't but 'acer-aspire' as the
> > > option the speakers and headphones worked but the speakers did not mute
> > > when headphones were plugged into the socket.
> > > 
> > > now it's working pretty okay.
> > 
> > Good to hear.  Could you show the output of "lspci -nv" for the audio
> > device?  We can add the entry for your device so that the driver works
> > without an extra model option.
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Takashi
>