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

bugtrack
2005-12-05T17:59:22Z

The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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<https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1622>
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Reported By: m_yates
Assigned To:
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Project: ALSA - driver
Issue ID: 1622
Category: PCI - via82xx
Reproducibility: always
Severity: block
Priority: normal
Status: new
Distribution: Ubuntu 5.10
Kernel Version: 2.6.12 (also reproduced using 2.6.15-rc2)
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Date Submitted: 12-05-2005 18:59 CET
Last Modified: 12-05-2005 18:59 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
+++-==============-==============-============================================
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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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)
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