[ALSA - driver 0001622]: ASUS A8V-MX onboard sound does not work

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2006-02-10T13:09:01Z

Last Modified: 02-10-2006 14:09 CET
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Summary: ASUS A8V-MX onboard sound does not work
Description:
Onboard sound plays for a second, then freezes on Asus A8V-MX mainboard.
Here is sound output from lspci:

matt@duster:~$ lspci | grep Multimedia
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 70)

Here is alsa version (version that came with Ubuntu 5.10):

||/ Name Version Description
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ii alsa-base 1.0.9b-4 ALSA driver configuration files

Here are the sound modules:

root@duster:/home/matt# lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 4484 0
snd_seq_oss 32128 0
snd_seq_midi 9920 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8064 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 52032 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_via82xx 29472 1
gameport 16392 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 87000 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss 51232 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 91020 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24200 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11408 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7936 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 27040 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 9488 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 55784 13
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu40
1_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10912 1 snd

Asus lists the audio chip as "Realtek ALC653", alsamixer shows "Realtek
ALC655 rev 1".
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Relationships ID Summary
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has duplicate 0001557 Sounds play only for a very short time ...
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adaviel - 01-29-06 02:14
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Me, too. ASUS A8V-MX board, AMD64 CPU, FC3-i386 system
tried FC4 base kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 (hda DMA fails)
FC updated 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5
kernel.org 2.6.16-rc1

lspci shows VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 70)
Class 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 70)
Sound is OK for about a second then stops.
With dxs_support=5 sound is OK for about 4 seconds playing 11025/sec file

Tried pci=noacpi, index=0, id="VIA - no difference
Tried looking for drivers at asus.com and viarena.com. ASUS has
current ALSA driver (lists VT8233 up to rev 60, I have rev 70).
VIA has mostly old stuff (2.4 kernel, RehHat8/9) which I could not build
even though it says "FC4". Hard to find things on their site; their
driver directory is not browsable and some links are broken.

Have submitted this issue to ASUS
http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techmailstatus.aspx?ID=WTM2006012863983987
Looks like a boilerplate reply - talks about Windows though
I checked "Linux".Some suggestions re. rearranging IRQ.

Bootup syslog includes
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[287c:1106] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
Hmm.. think that may be VT8251 PCI bridge (match with "lspci -n")

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Tuba - 02-10-06 14:09
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I have attached mplayer8251.strace, which is from a custom 2.6.15 kernel on
Debian. The problem exists on other 2.6.15-kernels tested, as well as on a
box running Mandriva 2006.

Other media players fail in similar ways, either crashing or going into an
endless loop.

Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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12-05-05 18:59 m_yates New Issue
12-05-05 18:59 m_yates Distribution => Ubuntu 5.10
12-05-05 18:59 m_yates Kernel Version => 2.6.12 (also
reproduced using 2.6.15-rc2)
12-06-05 15:53 tiwai Note Added: 0006926
12-06-05 18:21 m_yates Note Added: 0006931
12-06-05 20:16 m_yates Note Added: 0006937
12-07-05 01:09 Dakkus Issue Monitored: Dakkus
12-07-05 11:24 perex Relationship added has duplicate 0001557
12-07-05 16:16 thijser Issue Monitored: thijser
01-02-06 23:53 AlexCline Issue Monitored: AlexCline
01-03-06 20:41 AlexCline Note Added: 0007406
01-29-06 02:14 adaviel Note Added: 0007830
01-29-06 02:15 adaviel Issue Monitored: adaviel
01-30-06 19:36 millallo Issue Monitored: millallo
02-10-06 14:07 Tuba File Added: mplayer8251.strace
02-10-06 14:09 Tuba Note Added: 0008004
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