Sound issue - Intel HDA

[CHJ]

Yesterday I installed Fedora Core 5 on a notebook, and there is no sound on the notebook. I am not a Linux expert, and it is the first time doing multumedia on a linux installations.

The notebook is based on the Intel 945NG Chipset, and utilises the Sigmatel STAC9200 CODEC for HD sound.

When I use headphones I can hear a very very faint noise when I play music. When I am unplugging the headphones, there is no sound at all, not that I can hear. All the volume controls have been tested at max, min etc. No change.

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel          21329  4
snd_hda_codec         116033  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           7749  0
snd_seq_oss            33345  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                52401  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         12877  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            49105  0
snd_mixer_oss          20417  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                81093  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              26693  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    55109  15 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13345  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         14537  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4222 (rev 02)

I have read many posts around on this and other forums, regarding issues with 82801G (IHC7) Intel HDA sound, but my card does seem to be detected. In alsamixer it states that it is a Intel HD card and uses a STAC9200 chip.

The available options that I have in alsamixer is:
Master , PCM, Capture , Input So

Under input there is only the option "mic". I have checked gnome-volume-control preferences and kmix settings. I have tested with headphones, and checked that all settings are unmuted.

# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 b44
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
#alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
#options snd-card-0 index=0
#options snd-hda-intel index=0
#remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel

Note: The comments ("#") I have added myeself, this had no change on the sound in any way.

Again, I use Fedora Core 5 Final, it has Alsa 1.0.11rc2 and the Kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp

I would appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks.

[shoemael]

I have the same issue. Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9400. Soundcard is detected, snd_hda_intel loads with no errors but no sound. I've been running FC4 on this system with sound working for about 5 weeks. I upgraded to FC5 and the sound no longer works. Same exact problem as CHJ.

Note: The headphone jack did not disable speaker output when you plugged in the headphones in FC4 but the sound played in both headphones and speakers.


[root@oberon ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0098 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
03:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4222 (rev 02)

[red_dungeon]

Open the Settings Tab of the Mixer Applet.

Check [x] External Amplifier

Then look that in your tab the checkbox is selected too...

perhaps it helps

[shoemael]

Looks like this is reported in Fedora bugzilla as bug 182940

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=182940

Which points to ALSA bug 1843 (with fix)

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/al...ew.php?id=1843

Thanks for your help.

[CHJ]

Did you manage to get it fixed?

[shoemael]

I contacted Umar from the bug I linked to earlier. He was kind enough to provide me with the patch he used to resolve the problem. It worked perfectly for me as well.

Grab the 2.6.16 FC source RPM from a mirror (under testing) and apply the attached patch. Build and install the patched kernel and away you go!

Thanks Umar!

[CHJ]

Great stuff. I did manage to get this patch working. Took me a little while to get the hang of the Kernel Source. I have not used a kernel src RPM in Fedora. But great stuff. Finally I have some sound.

[SouthPaw]

I have no idea how to apply a patch. What I did was goto http://www.alsa-project.org/ and download the 1.0.11rc4 drivers and libraries. I compiled IAW http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...dule=hda-intel

Rebooted and to my amazment my sound card worked. I have a Sony Vaio FE550 and the mute button above the key board even works. The only thing I cant get to work are the volume buttons.

[simeonzv]

SouthPaw, thanks! It works for me on my Dell Dimension 3100!

Just had to install the kernel-smp-devel rpm for the kernel source:

yum install kernel-smp-devel

[sciguy125]

Alright, I applied Shoemael's patch to the 2.6.16 kernel. It works, but there's a few problems. They seem to be associated with software suspend, so I'm not sure if the problem is with suspend or alsa. After I suspend, the sound doesn't work anymore, but muting then unmuting fixes it. However, after a suspend, the headphones don't work anymore, even after muting. If I plug them in, sound just keeps playing through the speakers. Right after booting, everything works fine though, something happens when I suspend.

[zii]

I have these installed on my Sony Vaio SZ. It uses the Sigmatel codec for the HDA.
alsa-lib.i386 1.0.11-3.rc2.2 installed
alsa-tools.i386 1.0.10-2.fc5 installed
alsa-utils.i386 1.0.11-4.rc2 installed

Kernel is 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp.

I can see the channels in the Volume control, and they are all unmuted. The Sound Card Detection programme says that an Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller is installed, using the only available PCM device: HDA Generic. /root/scsound.log says:

# cat scsound.log
------- System Config Soundcard --------
Fri May 26 18:09:19 CLT 2006

------- lspci --------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 01d8 (rev a1)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4222 (rev 02)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
09:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Unknown device 8039
09:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments Unknown device 803a
09:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments Unknown device 803b

------- lsmod --------
Module Size Used by
ppdev 12741 0
autofs4 22980 1
hidp 24001 2
rfcomm 42709 0
l2cap 31681 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 52901 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 140925 1
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 6977 0
ipt_REJECT 9537 1
xt_state 6209 2
ip_conntrack 54041 2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink 10457 1 ip_conntrack
xt_tcpudp 7233 4
iptable_filter 7105 1
ip_tables 16389 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16965 4 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
vfat 16193 1
fat 51933 1 vfat
dm_mirror 24081 0
dm_multipath 22217 0
dm_mod 55129 2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath
video 18885 0
sony_acpi 9484 0
button 10577 0
battery 13253 0
ac 8901 0
ipv6 246561 16
lp 16265 0
parport_pc 29413 0
parport 38281 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_usb_audio 73537 0
snd_usb_lib 19009 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 28097 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_hwdep 13637 1 snd_usb_audio
nvram 12617 0
usb_storage 66593 0
snd_hda_intel 21329 2
snd_hda_codec 116033 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 7749 0
snd_seq_oss 33345 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 52401 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ohci1394 35845 0
ieee1394 292761 1 ohci1394
joydev 13441 0
sg 36317 0
ipw3945 175784 0
snd_seq_device 12877 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
ieee80211 46828 1 ipw3945
sky2 40769 0
snd_pcm_oss 49105 0
snd_mixer_oss 20417 1 snd_pcm_oss
i2c_i801 12493 0
snd_pcm 81093 4 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_ oss
ehci_hcd 33229 0
uhci_hcd 33233 0
ieee80211_crypt 10240 1 ieee80211
i2c_core 24769 1 i2c_i801
snd_timer 26693 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 55109 16 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel, snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 13345 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14537 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ext3 121417 1
jbd 56917 1 ext3
ata_piix 13893 3
libata 58065 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 20417 4
scsi_mod 129001 4 usb_storage,sg,libata,sd_mod

------- /etc/modprobe.conf --------
alias eth0 sky2
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
alias char-major-10-250 sonypi
options sonypi minor=250

------- /etc/asound.conf --------
#Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand
#SWCONF
#DEV 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0

------- aplay -l --------
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: U0x54c0x28d [USB Device 0x54c:0x28d], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

------- amixer --------
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 127
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [on]

------- /proc/asound/version --------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc2 (Wed Jan 04 08:57:20 2006 UTC).

------- rpm -q alsa-lib --------
alsa-lib-1.0.11-3.rc2.2

------- rpm -q alsa-utils --------
alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2

------- /proc/asound/modules --------
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_usb_audio

------- /proc/asound/pcm --------
00-00: HDA Generic : HDA Generic : playback 1 : capture 1
01-00: USB Audio : USB Audio : playback 1 : capture 1

------- system-config-soundcard --------

/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:273: DeprecationWarning: use gtk.ComboBox
self.primarySubDeviceOptionMenu = gtk.OptionMenu()
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:308: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead
self.timer = gtk.timeout_add (100, self.checkStatus, self)
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:548: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
gtk.main()
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo


Regards,z.

[zii]

OK - Got the sound partially working. It only plays out of the headphones when plugged into the 3.5mm headphone jack. The sound is never routed out of the builtin speakers. This works in WXP.

[nt4cats]

How did you compile it? I am trying the "Howo compile a kernel as a non-root user" instructions found here on the on fedoraforum.org site (link). Basically, I'm:

Using fedora-rpmdevtools-1.6-1.fc5 I am creating a rpmbuild directory in my non-root-user's home directory by running 'fedora-buildrpmtree'. Then, logged in as that user, I am running rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.16-1.2129_FC5.src.rpm (this is the kernel I have installed at present). I then cd into the SPECS directory and run 'rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec. This applies the RedHat/Fedora patches to the kernel tree. I then create a symbolic link under BUILD/kernel-2.6.16 called linux-2.6.16 pointing to linux-2.6.16.i686 (otherwise the patch file I found will not here work). I apply that patch 'patch -p0 < /path/to/patch/file', which complains a bit about two files, both of which seem to be for hardware I do not have so I didn't worry too much about it. According to the HOWTO referenced above, I change the EXTRAVERSION= label. I don't want to change any of the options (whatever the fedora kiddies picked is what I want -- I want something as close to the fedora-built kernel as possible), so I skip the menuconfig step. I then do a 'make rpm', which after a few minutes asks me to do a make oldconfig (apparently there are a few prompts it didn't expect). I answer "yes" to the two things it didn't know about (sounded like do I want oss support for a few drivers), and then re-do 'make rpm'. It cranks for 50 minutes and then dies complains that a directory (/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.16.19-root/modules/blah) is missing.


I'm not sure why I included all my steps above -- because I'm more interested in finding out what worked for you (what instructions did you follow?) versus have you/others debug my steps ... but now that I've spent 10 minutes typing it in I'll leave it there.

[Fry-kun]

Software-controlled headphone jack seems to be the new in-thing, so everyone is doing it. There seem to be lots of bugs filed in alsa bug tracker that are related to this problem.
Workaround: try to boot with headphones unplugged, or if it doesn't help, try to boot into windows (if you still have the windows partition left over with the drivers) and unplug the headphones once there. Then reboot and you'll have speakers.


HTH

[enduro1]

This is working
http://dev-board.com/?p=16