Re: HDA Intel sound driver fails on Acer notebook

[tony mancill <tony@mancill.com>]

FWIW, I'm having problems with this same laptop as well (i386).  Same
number of interrupts in /proc/interrupts.  Interestingly, OSS output works
(mostly), but all of the ALSA commands fail:

tony@maus:~$ amixer -d scontrols
amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument

tony@maus:~$ aplay ./test.wav
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1105:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
'defaults.pcm.dmix_format'
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3957:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file
or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix:0
aplay: main:550: audio open error: No such file or directory

However, this is running 1.0.13.  I have yet to test with the 1.0.14rc1
pre-packages that were posted earlier today.


Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> The HDA Intel sound driver still fails to load on my Acer Aspire 5102
> notebook (Turion64 X2, ATI chipset):
> 
> Here is the PCI info while running x86_64.  I tried i386 and x86_64 and it fails
> on both:
> 
> 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 437b (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 009f
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 64, Cache Line Size 08
>         Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16
>         Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
>                 Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
> 00: 02 10 7b 43 06 00 10 04 01 00 03 04 08 40 00 00
> 10: 04 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 10 9f 00
> 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00
> 40: 00 00 02 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 50: 01 60 42 c8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 60: 05 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> On i386 I get this after doing
>         insmod snd-hda-codec.ko ;  insmod snd-hda-intel.ko
> 
> Dec  1 17:38:29 ac kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> Dec  1 17:38:29 ac kernel: codec_mask = 0xb
> Dec  1 17:38:30 ac kernel: hda_codec: PCI 1025:9f, codec config 5 is selected
> Dec  1 17:38:31 ac kernel: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...
> Dec  1 17:38:32 ac kernel: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode...
> Dec  1 17:38:32 ac kernel: hda-intel: get_response timeout: IRS=0x0
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac last message repeated 24618 times
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac kernel: hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac kernel: hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac kernel: hda-intel: get_response timeout: IRS=0x0
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac kernel: hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac kernel: hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
> Dec  1 17:38:36 ac kernel: hda-intel: get_response timeout: IRS=0x0
> 
> The last three lines repeat many thousands of times, followed by:
> 
> Dec  1 17:38:39 ac kernel: hda_generic: no proper input path found
> Dec  1 17:38:39 ac kernel: hda_generic: no proper output path found
> Dec  1 17:38:39 ac kernel: hda_generic: no PCM found
> 
> Looking at /proc/interrupts, I see exactly 110 interrupts were processed
> by the driver while all this was happening:
> 
>  18:          0        110   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel
> 
> On x86_64 I forgot to enable verbose messages, so there's less information
> but it fails the same way.
> 


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