82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio not working

[LuHe]

Hello,

My notebook is a HP Pavilion dv7-1018eg and I am using Fedora 9

I have a problem with the following audio device:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci |grep Audio 
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -s 00:1b.0 -vn
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 103c:30f4
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at df300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X
Codec: Generic 10de ID 6

I am using kernel 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 and get no sound output

I tried to upgrade the kernel to the current rawhide version ( 2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.x86_64 ) and there I got some output, but the sound was always hanging for some seconds.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: I have the "hanging sound" problem also with Fedora 10 Alpha and the latetst Kubuntu release.

EDIT 2: It seems to work if I play an audio file with mplayer and kill pulseaudio on Kubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3. Is there any chance to get it working on Fedora 9?

EDIT 3: my alsa-info.txt is here: http://pastey.net/93682

[LuHe]

Any Ideas what I sould try?

[BustEz]

hey dude, i just got a laptop with the same audio hardware. just like to tell you that we're in the same boat coz my audio isn't working either

[LuHe]

Hello
wow great to see that somebody has the same hardware
yeah.. i found a solution:

The first thing you have to do is to update your ALSA library:
# su -
# yum --enablerepo=rawhide update alsa*

Then update the ALSA driver (the soundcard is only recognized with alsa >= 1.0.17, fedora 9 has 1.0.16):
# wget "ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2"
# tar -xf alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2
# cd alsa-driver-1.0.17
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Then it works really great

[BustEz]

you legend, wooohooo! Thanx man, does work really great
p.s. we got similar laptops, mines a dv5-1009tx, first thing i did when when i got the machine was to nuke the harddisk and install f9 which sounds like what you did too. They make us forcibly pay for vista lol ugg

Have fun with your new machine!

p.s.s. (you'll have a great time sorting out the "ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller" issue, you'll know what i mean if you try running a vmware image off an external e-sata drive )

[AutoStatic]

Got a DV7-1070 here with exactly the same audio device. But even after installing the rawhide ALSA packages and compiling and installing the 1.0.17 ALSA drivers sound is still hanging. Am I missing something here? Do I also need the 2.6.27 kernel? Thanks!

Jeremy

[LuHe]

Do you use pulseaudio?
It was hanging if I used alsa directly, but with pulseaudio it was working fine.

P.S.: I updated pulseaudio to rawhide, don't know if it makes any difference

[AutoStatic]

Probably will, I'll try. Thanks for the prompt reply Tried both Alsa and PulseAudio.

[AutoStatic]

Updated pulseaudio. Got sound but with Alsa I get a nasty kind of echo so it´s still not useable. With pulseaudio I only get distortion.

[BustEz]

not sure if this helps, but these are the packages i got installed pertaining to pulse & alsa, probably don't need half of them lol.

bluez-utils-alsa-3.32-1.fc9.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.fc10.x86_64
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.17-2.fc10.x86_64
alsa-lib-1.0.17-2.fc10.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.17-1.fc10.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.5.svn20070924.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64

$uname -r
2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64

[AutoStatic]

Thanks BustEz! Big difference already is that I don't have a 64bit system. But Juliana Hatfield is ringing in my ears right now. It has got something to do with ACPI. When I disable it then sound works fine.
This is what I got installed right now:
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 1.0.17-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-core-libs.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-esound-compat.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-libs.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-module-gconf.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-module-lirc.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-module-x11.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
pulseaudio-utils.i386 0.9.11-1.fc10 installed
alsa-lib.i386 1.0.17-2.fc10 installed
alsa-utils.i386 1.0.17-1.fc10 installed
bluez-utils-alsa.i386 3.32-1.fc9 installed

And I compiled and installed the 1.0.17 alsa drivers. Aren't those packaged too? Isn't that the alsa-firmware package?
And wow, even the touchpad works, nice

Ow, cheered too early (forgive me the Dutch expression), sound still hangs every now and then, it's probably some app getting in the way somehow.

[LuHe]

Hello,

what do you mean with "hangs every now and then"?
I also have the same problem and havn't figured out what caused it:

When I watch a movie or play a music file for more then around 15 minutes and
neither move my mouse nor press any key the sound "hangs" (the movie hangs
too). If I move my mouse everything works again for a few seconds, but then my
sound hangs again.

I use kde powersaver and have set the schema to "Akustik", but it doesn't
change anything.

The problem occurs also if I plug in the power supply.

I don't see any useful information in /var/log/messages, dmesg or pulseaudio -
vvvv

Seems like the soundcard is in idle state?

[LuHe]

And I compiled and installed the 1.0.17 alsa drivers. Aren't those packaged too? Isn't that the alsa-firmware package?
And wow, even the touchpad works, nice

AFAIK you also need the kernel modules (snd-hda-intel.ko), which is only provided by the kernel itself.

[lukas@erde ~]$ rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
kernel-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64

[AutoStatic]

Solved this issue. I added pci=noacpi as a kernel option. So maybe it's an IRQ assignment problem? I also added options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1 to /etc/modprobe.conf and updated to the latest alsa drivers (1.0.17) that specifically support this soundcard. I have no problems anymore whatsoever. I need to admit though that I switched to Ubuntu on this laptop since either the power management implementation or the nvidia driver on F9 freezes my notebook.
And the kernelmodule you mention gets built and installed when you compile the alsa-drivers:

cp snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda

[LuHe]

Solved this issue. I added pci=noacpi as a kernel option. So maybe it's an IRQ assignment problem? I also added options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1 to /etc/modprobe.conf and updated to the latest alsa drivers (1.0.17) that specifically support this soundcard. I have no problems anymore whatsoever.

Thanks for this tip.
My audio works great, but watching movies still "hangs".

And the kernelmodule you mention gets built and installed when you compile the alsa-drivers:

Yes, but these aren't in any seperate package (except in the kernel package itself)