Problem with Realtek ALC889 sound card on Wheezy (7.1)

Banunya · 08-17-2013, 04:43 AM

I'm running debian wheezy (7.1.0), and I have an onboard realtek ALC889 sound card (The mother board is Gigabyte HA65M-D2H-B3)
The computer produces a really loud static noise, and I can't see the speakers on the Gnome sound menu. I think the problem is with ALSA, but I'm not sure. Help?

aus9 · 08-17-2013, 05:15 AM

hi

based on specs here
http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/...px?pid=3914#sp you have

Quote:

6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)

each hole found = a stack so you have 6 stacks but you also have one optical hole = spdif so 6 stacks 1 spdif

based on this thread
http://forums.gentoo.org/posting.php...b2194ebddef1bf

your codec of alc889 means you can modify your
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and append this line and reboot

Quote:

options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig

do not include the double quotes showing in that post pls...we are debian users

you will need root powers to edit that file, as I don't know how comfortable you are with cli try

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

assuming gnome editor is gedit

but I run debian unstable so if that file does not exist, you have just created it
check it exists and report before appending pls

Banunya · 08-17-2013, 07:15 AM

I did what you suggested, didn't change anything. Any other ideas?

aus9 · 08-17-2013, 08:39 AM

upload an image of your current output to either a image site or as an attachment.

Code:

alsamixer -V all

2) I can't help with speaker icon but in your panel if you RH click you should be able to add an speaker icon, if that helps

3) does this static noise change when you do something...if so what did you do

b) do you hear music when you play it or only static?

Banunya · 08-17-2013, 09:20 AM

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The static noise doesn't change. I can hear other sounds though, but again- with the static noise.

aus9 · 08-17-2013, 06:43 PM

hi

go back into that alsamixer, press the right hand arrow to move to each in turn and
@ headphone..press m to mute
@ lfe......ditto
@ cd....(for the moment) ditto
@ spdifs...press m to mute
@ capture ...press space bar to de-activate

test sound

if static clears
redo only one at time, reverse my request...meaning pressing m to unmute or space bar to activate
---hopefuly we find the culprit....I am betting on lfe

2) I don't have hdmi myself....where is sound coming out of?

3) press the F6 button and report if another sound device shows or not, only if shows...a screenshot pls

Banunya · 08-18-2013, 02:17 AM

Did everything you said, didn't help... I even tried to mute everything later, I still have the static noise, no other sounds. No other devices show up in F6

(Edit: The speakers are connected by the front/headphone port, I unmuted it)

aus9 · 08-18-2013, 02:56 AM

ok what media players have your tried pls?

also name the format you are testing eg mp3 or wav or mpg etc

with vlc, it is supposed to play most formats without extra codecs but I await your response

EDIT
https://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs

https://wiki.debian.org/NewInWheezy

Quote:

Multimedia support

In Debian wheezy, ffmpeg has been replaced by the libav fork, which is considered to feature a more conservative release process and thus fit better to Debian's needs. It provides all libraries and prepares an upgrade path for existing application packages.
Debian wheezy comes with full-featured libav (formerly ffmpeg) libraries and frontends, including e.g. mplayer, mencoder, vlc and transcode. Additional codec support is provided e.g. through lame for MP3 audio encoding, xvidcore for MPEG-4 ASP video encoding, x264 for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding, vo-aacenc for AAC audio encoding and opencore-amr and vo-amrwbenc for Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrowband and Wideband encoding and decoding, respectively. For most use cases, installation of packages from third-party repositories should not be necessary anymore. The times of crippled multimedia support in Debian are finally over!

FabianGreffrath: I know the paragraph about added codecs is very detailed and technical, but all these codecs are explicitely mentioned on purpose. They are kind of buzz words and Debian was long time infamous for not supporting them, so this should get explicit press coverage. I am not a native speaker so the actual wording is, of course, subject to change.

aus9 · 08-18-2013, 03:02 AM

I won't edit above any more but in case its a lib file here are my debian sid stuff

Code:

dpkg -l | grep libav
ii  libav-tools                             6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder
ii  libavahi-client3:i386                   0.6.31-2                      i386         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common-data:i386               0.6.31-2                      i386         Avahi common data files
ii  libavahi-common3:i386                   0.6.31-2                      i386         Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1:i386                     0.6.31-2                      i386         Avahi GLib integration library
ii  libavc1394-0:i386                       0.5.4-2                       i386         control IEEE 1394 audio/video devices
ii  libavcodec53:i386                       6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Libav codec library
ii  libavdevice53:i386                      6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Libav device handling library
ii  libavfilter2:i386                       6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Libav video filtering library
ii  libavformat53:i386                      6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Libav file format library
ii  libavutil51:i386                        6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Libav utility library
gordon@box:~$ dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg
ii  ffmpeg                                  6:0.8.8-1                     i386         Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package)
ii  libxine2-ffmpeg                         1.2.3-1                       i386         MPEG-related plugins for libxine2
gordon@box:~$ dpkg -l | grep vlc
ii  libvlc5                                 2.0.8-1                       i386         multimedia player and streamer library
ii  libvlccore5                             2.0.8-1                       i386         base library for VLC and its modules
ii  vlc                                     2.0.8-1                       i386         multimedia player and streamer
ii  vlc-data                                2.0.8-1                       all          Common data for VLC
ii  vlc-nox

dpkg -l | grep gstream
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa:i386                 0.10.36-1.1                   i386         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3               0.10.15.debian-1              i386         Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer plugin
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386         0.10.36-1.1                   i386         GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386    0.10.36-1.1                   i386         GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0:i386                 0.10.36-1.2                   i386         Core GStreamer libraries and elements

mrapathy · 08-18-2013, 04:12 AM

your problem may be pulseaudio
I have same sound chip in a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
using KDE on wheezy 7.1

On X start I would get crackling noise but nothing else. I dont know what the deal was with pulseaudio but I didnt really seem to need it for anything I want to do removed it got audio chipset detected properly by ALSA and could open kmixer and see audio jacks plugged in and got sound.

just my experience and 2 cents

Banunya · 08-18-2013, 05:33 AM

The static sound plays even when I don't play anything, so I don't think it's important what media players I tried. Now sure of what to do now

Banunya · 08-18-2013, 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrapathy

your problem may be pulseaudio
I have same sound chip in a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
using KDE on wheezy 7.1

On X start I would get crackling noise but nothing else. I dont know what the deal was with pulseaudio but I didnt really seem to need it for anything I want to do removed it got audio chipset detected properly by ALSA and could open kmixer and see audio jacks plugged in and got sound.

just my experience and 2 cents

I don't have pulseaudio installed (I think I removed it at some point when I tried to fix my sound). I do have some of it's libraries, but if I remove it it'll remove a lot of my programs so at least for now I'll keep it

Banunya · 08-18-2013, 06:03 AM

I managed to fix the problem! Just turned the master and fromt volume very high on alsamixer. Static is probably still there, but since the other volumes are high I can turn down the speaker volume and barely hear it. Thanks!