On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Peter Hartman wrote:
> Hi Dominique:
>
> 1) hotplug isn't running.
If you have udev, hotplug is always running. And udev is the standard these
days.
>
> 2) A little more clarification: when I run alsamixer (on the occasions
> when it works) it only shows the Master; but on the occasions when it
> stops working, a mysterious "SPDIF" setting is available (with the
> Master as well).
Sounds like two different sound cards are in contention.
>
> 3) If I run /etc/init.d/alsasound restart on a bootup when it
> works--it will go from working to not working. But, randomly, it will
> start to work again only on a
> reboot.
>
> 4) I am now using vanilla gentoo 1.0.11 alsa-driver and alsa-utils for
> testing with you. With 1.0.13 (gentoo), I get a different error, but
> with 1.0.13 compiled by hand, it has the same effect. Besides, it
> WORKS atleast once in a while with 1.0.11, so I figured I'd stick with
> the vanilla gentoo, until I need to move beyond.
>
> 5) here is my lsmod:
>
> snd_pcm_oss 31328 0
> snd_mixer_oss 13888 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_oss 26624 0
> snd_seq_device 5384 1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq_midi_event 5504 1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq 41072 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_hda_intel 12884 0
> snd_hda_codec 123008 1 snd_hda_intel
> snd_pcm 62788 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
> snd_timer 16004 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd 39332 9
>
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> snd_page_alloc 6856 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
That is not lsmod, but I assume it is all of the entries which start with
snd. ARe there perhaps some old oss modules being loaded as well?
>
> (Unfortunately, this is lsmod on a broken sound bootup; I didn't get
> a chance to lsmod on a working sound setting -- even though the
> /etc/modules.d/alsa remain the same between the two.)
>
> On 10/5/06, Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you want to use the alsa-driver packages with gentoo, you must not
have alsa
>> compiled with the driver. See
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
>>
>>
>> Le Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:09:44 -0500,
>> "Peter Hartman" <peterjohnhartman@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've had quite a headache with the snd hda intel driver. Below is my
>>> lspci. I am using GENTOO (latest) on a brand new Gateway MX6920
>>> Laptop. With alsa-utils-1.0.11 and 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 with
>>> SND_HDA_INTEL compiled in AS A MODULE (It did not work compiled in
>>> directly to the kernel; nor did it work with alsa-driver-1.0.11--by
>>> "did not work" I mean everything ran fine, but no sound came out--) it
>>> worked every few reboots; in other words, it was very random. The
>>> curious thing about "alsamixer"--when it worked it only presented one
>>> control option (Master), whereas when it didn't work there were two or
>>> more controls.
>>>
>> It can be the case if you have an USB sound card as a webcam. The
>> snd_usb_audio will be loaded by hotplug before at alsasound load the
alsa
>> modules, and the regular sound card will be the second sound card.
>>
>> If it is the case, you have to add
>> "snd-usb-audio" (without the double quotes) in /etc/udev/blacklist and
alsasound
>> will work as expected.
>>
>> If it not solve the problem, what is the output of
>>
>> lsmod|grep snd
>>
>> Dominique
>>
>>> I also tried: (a) compiling alsa-utils-1.0.13 and alsa-driver-1.0.13
>>> (and alsa-lib and alsa-header) directly from alsa-sound.org. But then
>>> I get an ioctl error or other strange errors (it sometimes crashes,
>>> sometimes (e.g., mplayer) will say that the sndcard isn't fast enough,
>>> sometimes (madplay) an ioctl error). So I tried (b) emerging the
>>> 1.0.13 ebuilds of alsa stuff. Ditto error message.
>>>
>>> So, in summary, only the MODULE version of snd hda intel worked
>>> (kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r8). But it only worked every few (random)
>>> reboots; when it worked, it worked fine.
>>>
>>> If you want more information, please let me know!
>>>
>>>
>>> lspci -v
>>>
>>>
>>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
>>> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
>>> Memory at d8240000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>>> Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
>>> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>>> Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
>>> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
>>> Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
>>>
>>> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
>>> Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>>> Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
>>> I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
>>> Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d5ffffff
>>> Prefetchable memory behind bridge:
00000000d0000000-00000000d1f00000
>>> Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
>>> Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
>>> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>>> Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
>>> Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
>>> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
>>> Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)
>>>
>>> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
>>> Port 2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>>> Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
>>> Memory behind bridge: d6000000-d7ffffff
>>> Prefetchable memory behind bridge:
00000000d2000000-00000000d3f00000
>>> Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
>>> Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
>>> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>>> Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
>>> Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
>>> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
>>> Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)
>>>
>>> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
>>> UHCI #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
>>> I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
>>>
>>> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
>>> UHCI #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
>>> I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
>>>
>>>
>>> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
>>> UHCI #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
>>> I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
>>>
>>> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
>>> UHCI #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>>> I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
>>>
>>> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2
>>> EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
>>> Memory at d8444000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
>>> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>>> Capabilities: [58] Debug port
>>>
>>>
>>> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
>>> (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
>>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>>> Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
>>> I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
>>> Memory behind bridge: d8000000-d80fffff
>>> Prefetchable memory behind bridge:
0000000050000000-0000000051f00000
>>> Capabilities: [50] #0d [0000]
>>>
>>> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
>>> Bridge (rev 02)
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
>>> Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information
>>>
>>>
>>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
>>> Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
>>> I/O ports at <unassigned>
>>> I/O ports at <unassigned>
>>> I/O ports at <unassigned>
>>> I/O ports at <unassigned>
>>> I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
>>>
>>> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
>>> Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
>>> Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
>>> I/O ports at 18d0 [size=8]
>>> I/O ports at 18c4 [size=4]
>>> I/O ports at 18c8 [size=8]
>>> I/O ports at 18c0 [size=4]
>>> I/O ports at 18b0 [size=16]
>>> Memory at d8444400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
>>> Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
>>> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>>> Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
>>>
>>> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev
>>> 02) Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0366
>>> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
>>> I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dominique Michel
>>
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