No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

[Marek Zelem]

	Hello

   I have Dell Latitude D531 notebook with
	00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia
sound card. Module snd_hda_intel is automaticaly loaded but no sound card
is detected. Here is the dmesg output:

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ALSA
/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:558:
hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...
ALSA
/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:564:
hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode...
hda_codec: No auto-config is available, default to model=ref
ALSA
/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1020:
hda-intel: no codecs initialized
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.2 disabled

I have linux kernel 2.6.22.1. Also tried alsa 1.0.14 kernel modules built
from alsa sources. The result was the same.

I have also tried all model=xxx arguments, nothing helped.

A also tried pci=noacpi but that caused boot failure.

Am I doing something wrong? Can you please help me with that?

Btw, the system is 64bit, could that be a problem?

lspci -nnv for sound card is:

00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia [1002:4383]
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:0206]
        Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 16
        Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

  Thanks in advance

Marek

Re: No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

[Lee Revell]

On 7/23/07, Marek Zelem <marek@terminus.sk> wrote:
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> ALSA
> /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:558:
> hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...
> ALSA
> /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:564:
> hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode...
> hda_codec: No auto-config is available, default to model=ref
> ALSA
> /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1020:
> hda-intel: no codecs initialized

Takashi-san,

Maybe you should add another printk() to HDA intel driver that
instructs the user to post relevant debug info
(/proc/asound/card0/codecblah...) to alsa-devel in these cases where
we encounter some problem that is likely to result in no sound?  Other
subsystems do it in similar cases (essentially, too many hardware
variants for the maintainers to have any chance of testing them all)
and it seems to produce good results.  It would make a lot of users
happy to not have to google for what to do next...

Lee

Re: No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:42:07 -0400,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> On 7/23/07, Marek Zelem <marek@terminus.sk> wrote:
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > ALSA
> > /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:558:
> > hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...
> > ALSA
> > /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:564:
> > hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode...
> > hda_codec: No auto-config is available, default to model=ref
> > ALSA
> > /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1020:
> > hda-intel: no codecs initialized
> 
> Takashi-san,
> 
> Maybe you should add another printk() to HDA intel driver that
> instructs the user to post relevant debug info
> (/proc/asound/card0/codecblah...) to alsa-devel in these cases where
> we encounter some problem that is likely to result in no sound?  Other
> subsystems do it in similar cases (essentially, too many hardware
> variants for the maintainers to have any chance of testing them all)
> and it seems to produce good results.  It would make a lot of users
> happy to not have to google for what to do next...

Well, in this case, the codec probe itself fails, so we cannot get the
mostly userful information such as codec#* proc files.  Thus it won't
be helpful to give such instructions.

I suspect this particular case is rather an ACPI problem like others.
Some ACPI-related boot options are worth to try...


Takashi

Re: No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

[Marek Zelem]

  Hi

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Well, in this case, the codec probe itself fails, so we cannot get the
> mostly userful information such as codec#* proc files.  Thus it won't
> be helpful to give such instructions.
>
> I suspect this particular case is rather an ACPI problem like others.
> Some ACPI-related boot options are worth to try...

I have tried almost everything about ACPI and also IRQ routing but without
success.
If it helps, the BIOS reports that there is Sigmatel 9205 audio card.

Is there any chance to make it work? I am C programmer so do not hesitate
to point me into sources, add printks which will help to figure out why
the codec is not detected.

Thanks a lot

Marek

Re: No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:53:01 +0200 (CEST),
Marek Zelem wrote:
> 
> 
>   Hi
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Well, in this case, the codec probe itself fails, so we cannot get the
> > mostly userful information such as codec#* proc files.  Thus it won't
> > be helpful to give such instructions.
> >
> > I suspect this particular case is rather an ACPI problem like others.
> > Some ACPI-related boot options are worth to try...
> 
> I have tried almost everything about ACPI and also IRQ routing but without
> success.
> If it helps, the BIOS reports that there is Sigmatel 9205 audio card.

Did you try the ALSA HG version?  There is a known bug specific to
STAC9205 that was fixed after 1.0.14 release.


Takashi

Re: No sound card found for ATI SB600 Azalia

[Marek Zelem]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Did you try the ALSA HG version?  There is a known bug specific to
> STAC9205 that was fixed after 1.0.14 release.

I tried that and it seems it works.
Thanks.

Marek