On Sunday 23 November 2008 05:25, GN wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 22 November 2008 05:03, GN wrote: > >> Nigel Henry wrote: > >>> Update below. > >>> > >>> On Friday 21 November 2008 16:14, Nigel Henry wrote: > >>>> Hi Graeme. > >>>> > >>>> Ok. So far so good. > >>>> > >>>> I've just seen the same errors above, while Googling on that Mitac > >>>> (unknown device) 8227, that shows up on lspci for your soundcard. Will > >>>> you run the command below. > >>>> grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec* > >>>> > >>>> You should see 2 codecs. ALC883 (The correct one for the snd-hda-intel > >>>> module), and also ALC268, which appears to be something to do with > >>>> this Mitac 8227 component on the card. > >>>> > >>>> The fix on the Ubuntu forum (french), was to patch the alsa driver, > >>>> but the instructions are for Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and that has alsa > >>>> driver 1.0.16, which is the same as the installed driver on F9, before > >>>> you upgraded it. Link to the frech Ubuntu forum below. > >>>> http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/audio_intel_hda > >>>> > >>>> Now it may be that the model=medion option is the wrong one, and I see > >>>> from the very sparce specs for your machine on the Medion site, that > >>>> your card provides 6 channels plus digital out. It's possible that the > >>>> alsa development folks have already applied a patch on the 1.0.18a > >>>> driver that you now have, but it's just the model option which is > >>>> wrong. > >>>> > >>>> Would you try the following one. > >>>> options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-6ch-dig > >>>> > >>>> The same forum page for the fix above shows that as an option for the > >>>> Medion MD96367, where both ALC883, and ALC268 codecs are detected. > >>>> It's not your model, but worth a try. > >>>> > >>>> If that produces no changes in Alsamixer, we may have to ask the Alsa > >>>> dev folks. It's possible that the 1.0.18a driver has had the necessary > >>>> patch applied since 1.0.18a was released, and there are nightly > >>>> snapshots of the driver available, which include the latest patches. > >>>> > >>>> Anyway. Try the above model option first. > >>>> > >>>> Nigel > >> > >> Hi Nigel, > >> > >> Yes, I bought my Medion back on 20/3/2008. > >> > >> The output of the following shows 3 Codecs, 0-2. > >> > >> [graeme@flintstone ~]$ grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec* > >> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0:Codec: Realtek ALC883 > >> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1:Codec: LSI ID 1040 > >> /proc/asound/card0/codec#2:Codec: Realtek ALC268 > >> [graeme@flintstone ~]$ > >> > >> model=3stack-6ch-dig brings things back to square one, nothing. > >> > >> model=mitac gives the same as model=medion. > >> > >> I managed to bring up the attached error dialogue while I was fiddling. > >> It may mean something to you. > >> > >> I can configure Kmix, get Amarok running and start playing a CD but no > >> sound from the speakers or the front headphone jacks. > >> > >> Alsamixer and amixer still do not work. Same errors as before. alsaconf > >> is not on my system so I cannot try it. I thought it was in alsa-utils. > >> > >>> Worth a try, and if it doesn't work we pester the Alsa developers for a > >>> patch. > >> > >> A good idea I think. Thanks for the continuing help. Much appreciated. > >> Between us we will get this beggar working :-) > > > > Hi Graeme. > > > > I've found something else that was in a bug report link in the changelog > > from 1.0.18 > 1.0.18a. It's for a Medion MD96630, model wim 2180 notebook > > PC, but also has both ALC883, and ALC268. The link to the bug report is > > below, and I've pasted what I think is the relevant bit to try. > > > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412528 > > > > <quote> > > ------- Comment #2 From Takashi Iwai 2008-07-28 08:07:06 MST ------- > > It seems that your machine has two codecs and they conflict with each > > other. > > > > Remove model option and add probe_mask=1. If it doesn't work, try > > probe_mask=2 > > or probe_mask=8. By the probe_mask option, the driver will choose only > > one codec. > > > > > > ------- Comment #3 From rens groenewegen 2008-08-03 21:22:31 MST ------- > > probe_mask=1 works. > > it activates alc883. shows up as HDA intel. > > > > values 2,4,8 do not work, although mixer loads and shows controls > > etcetera shows as ALC268 > > something wrong with alc268 code, i guess. > > > > i'll do some more probing and return with results > > > > <end quote> > > > > So try the suggestion above, reboot, and see what alsamixer shows. > > > > If it works, as the problem appears to be fixed on the 1.0.18a driver, > > but with a weird model option, as below, so try that as well, having > > removed the probe_mask=1 bit from the options line. > > > > options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo-ms7195-dig > > > > The bit from the changelog is pasted below, and the link to the > > changelog. > > > > <quote> > > - ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for MEDION MD96630 > > Use model=lenovo-ms7195-dig for MEDION MD96630 laptop (17c0:4085) > > with ALC888 codec. > > Reference: Novell bnc#412548 > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412528 > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> > > > > <end quote> > > > > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.18_v1.0.18a > > > > > > Would you also look on the label on the back of your machine, and post > > back the model of your MD96420. > > > > If the above model option does not work, we may still need to let the > > devs know. > > > > All the best. > > > > Nigel. > > Hello Nigel, > > Thank you very much for your time helping me with this. > > Model Number from the sticker underneath the machine is: MIM 2300 > Notebook PC. > > I tried the different probe-mask=?. Probe-mask=1 works OK but not the > others. model=lenovo-ms7195-dig doesn't work. Kmix shows varying > channels depending on the 'model' or 'probe-mask' used. probe-mask=1 > gives the most channels. alsamixer now loads up OK but still no sound. > Shows as ALC883 with 'probe-mask=1' Starting Amarok elicits the xine > error dialogue window with "xine was unable to initialize any audio > drivers" > > UPDATE: > > With 'probe-mask=1 and using Rhythmbox I can get sound out of the > speakers and the front headphone jack. Volume not very high out of the > speakers but is good from the headphones. Too much system activity or > keyboard activity (I'm writing this listening to Tchaikovsky and I can > hear interruptions from the keyboard at times) seems to interfere with > the audio stream. Also there is a lot of noise from the CD drive coming > through the earphones. Don't know how that is happening. Pulseaudio Vol > Cntl can be used as can the panel Vol. Cntl. and also alsamixer. > > It is not properly fixed yet, not anywhere near as good as the sound > under Vista, but it is very, very close and is usable with the > headphones. Perhaps the next driver update will fix it. > > A thought, pulseaudio is the default audio driver for Fedora 9 and > trying to remove it brings up a plethora of dependencies that rely on > it. Perhaps there is some conflict between ALSA and pulseaudio. > > Your help has been indispensable and I cannot thank you enough for all > the time you have put in. Thank you again. Hi Graeme. At last we're getting somewhere. I have Pulseaudio disabled on my F9 install, and use KDE. I have read that some folk complain of low volume when using Pulseaudio. So let's get rid of Pulseaudio, by disabling it. You can always put it back later if you want. There is only one package that you need to remove to disable it, and that is, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio . Removing that will also remove the kde-settings-pulseaudio package, as you, like me, are using KDE. Now reboot, and alsamixer should now open using just alsamixer, rather than alsamixer -D hw:0, and it should be showing all controls for playback. F4 will show capture controls. Assuming that disabling Pulseaudio hasn't made any difference (but it's as well to have it out of the way, just in case it is compounding the sound problems) we'll now try the latest daily snapshot of the alsa driver. Patches are being applied daily, and it's a longshot, but maybe some patch or other has resolved your problem. The daily snapshots of the alsa driver are available at the link below. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/ Download, and install alsa-driver-20081123.tar.gz, using the usual ./configure, make, and as root, make install. Reboot using the options line. options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 I think that the above line is just used to identify if there are conflicts between multiple codecs. Now try the lenovo model option again. options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo-ms7195-dig I don't expect any changes from what you showed on your last post, but at least we will have tried the latest snapshot of the driver. On the link below for your laptop, the audio jacks are shown. (2) is shown asMicrophone/Line in/centre/. (3) is shown as Line out/front speakers, and (4) is shown as S/P-DIF out/rear speakers (this connection is only useable if your software support it). On the back of the machine there is a connection for HDMI out (this also may have a sound component on the graphics card) Do you see the same as I do on your machine? http://www.medion.de/md96420/au/flash.html We are gradually getting there, and I'm not a Alsa sound guru, but try to help where I can. All the best. 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