[SOLVED] P35-DS3L Sound on Debian Sid

digerati1338 · 07-09-2009, 10:11 AM

I can't seem to get my sound working. The sound card is a Realtek ALC888 that is integrated with the DS3L motherboard. I've had it working in the past, but recently switched to Debian amd64 and now I can't get it to work. I believe that it used the snd-hda-intel module.

Here are some outputs:

Code:

mike@ender:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [pcsp           ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp
                      Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61
 1 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfb000000 irq 22

The HDA-Intel card is the correct one, so it is at least seen by the OS.

Code:

mike@ender:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GTS] (rev a1)
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

Code:

mike@ender:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.

Code:

cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.20 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux ender 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 14 15:00:29 UTC 2009 x86_64
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61
HDA Intel at 0xfb000000 irq 22

Audio devices:
0: pcsp
1: ALC888 Analog (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: PC-Speaker
1: Realtek ALC888

Thanks for any help you can give me.

the trooper · 07-09-2009, 10:47 AM

Looks like i'm running a similar system:

Code:

ade@Pc1:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 22

Have you checked the module is loaded?,here's what i get:

Code:

ade@Pc1:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_analog    74864  1 
snd_hda_intel          26680  0 
snd_hda_codec          75168  2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               8120  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            37200  0 
snd_mixer_oss          15072  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                78440  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi            6976  0 
snd_rawmidi            22992  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      7696  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                51312  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              21824  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          7476  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    63864  11 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7984  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9968  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

In the past i had to run alsaconf to get sound working on my machine,but i believe it has been removed from the alsa-utils packages in Testing/Sid.
You could try as root:

alsa reload

Some posts i have read suggest:

dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base

I find alsa reload works for me,might work for you.
Good luck!.

digerati1338 · 07-09-2009, 03:52 PM

You are correct in that alsaconf is no longer included in sid. I used to use that. I have the correct modules loaded, I believe:

Code:

mike@ender:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_realtek   250068  1 
snd_hda_intel          26680  1   
snd_hda_codec          75184  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcsp               10588  2                                    
snd_hwdep               8120  1 snd_hda_codec                      
snd_pcm_oss            37200  1                                    
snd_mixer_oss          15072  1 snd_pcm_oss                        
snd_pcm                78440  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcsp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21824  1 snd_pcm                                         
snd                    63848  13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcsp,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer                             
soundcore               7984  2 snd                                                    
snd_page_alloc          9936  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base didn't seem to have any effect. I selected alsa, which I assume was the default.

alsa load didn't do the trick either.

Also, when KDE starts, and when I run the test in kde control center under multimedia, it says something along the lines of HDA-Intel (Analog ALC888) does not work. Switching back to default.

the trooper · 07-09-2009, 04:23 PM

Did you try alsa reload as well?

Do you have pulseaudio installed?
If so i would try removing it,and just use alsa.

Other things to try would be purging and reinstalling alsa,and checking channel levels with alsamixer.
I know this will sound daft,but are the speakers plugged in and known to work?

digerati1338 · 07-10-2009, 04:01 PM

Yes, I tried alsa reload when alsa load didn't work. It showed it reloading all the modules, but didn't change anything.

I do not have pulseaudio installed.

The speakers are known to work because it is a dual-boot system and they work in Windows 7.

I've tried purging and re-installing alsa without success. Perhaps I'll try purging linux-sound-base.

Also, when I logged on just now, I heard the kde startup sound coming out of my speakers, but afterward couldn't get anything else to play and I got the message "The device HDA Intel (ALC888 Analog) does not work. Falling back to default." in the KDE notification system (KDE 4). The pcsp PC Speaker entry is also gone from cat /proc/asound/cards, so the only one there right now is the correct one.

I'm starting to run out of ideas...

digerati1338 · 07-10-2009, 06:52 PM

Solved!

The fix is quite simple. I just needed to install phonon-backend-xine with aptitude.

Apparently, xine used to be the default backend, but the default was changed to gstreamer. Installing xine fixes the problem.

I think that for other users simply installing that package from the default configuration should solve the problem.