[SOLVED] Weird sound problem with debian on hp dv3000 notebook

piojosnos · 07-08-2009, 08:19 PM

Hi,

I have a HP dv3000 laptop, and when I install debian "testing" mostly all works except the wireless.

It happens because "testing" release is currently includes kernel 2.6.26 and my wireless (PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN) is supported from 2.6.27 and above. So I set up my repositories to sid and downloaded 2.6.30 in order to have wireless (mostly what says here: http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn).

But the weird thing is that using the new kernel 2.6.30 I just have no sound! With the default 2.6.26 "testing" kernel I have sound (see lspci below for sound card specs, but mostly an intel). In fact, when ever I play a sound the player is playing (time is running, visual effects, vertical little bars that follow the sound are moving, no error, etc), but just there is no sound.

I've tested mostly every thing I can think about, headphones also don't sound, checked mixer to see if something is muted, checked modules to see if loaded, restarted alsa, etc, I really have not a clue :-/

Other tip is that it's not only the 2.6.30 kernel, what ever kernel I install above 2.6.26 just does not sound, it does not matter the repository it comes from, or if I compile it my self, or even if I install a kernel from ubuntu that I've checked that sounds from a live cd...

This thing is puzzling me... any idea?

lspci:

Quote:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300M GS] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

Best Regards
Demián

beiller · 07-09-2009, 12:58 PM

Are you using Gnome?

Sometimes the mixer is set to mute things by default. Try opening up the mixer in gnome, edit preferences and enable all channels, and make sure none are muted.

Also in gnome you can select which card is being used to output sound in the main gnome menu, although I dont think thats a problem considering you only have 1 sound card.

Otherwise there is a command line utility to run as root : alsaconf . Try running that as root and it should set up your card.

piojosnos · 07-10-2009, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beiller

Are you using Gnome?

No, I'm on fluxbox. Already checked the mixer with alsamixer and all seems to be unmuted...

Quote:

Originally Posted by beiller

Otherwise there is a command line utility to run as root : alsaconf . Try running that as root and it should set up your card.

alsaconf is deprecated (acording to alsa people is used only to identify old ISA / PCI cards) and was removed from alsa-utils (at least from debian testing. Any way, I managed to install it and give it a try but no results so far, still with out sound :-(

piojosnos · 07-13-2009, 09:34 PM

Ok, now this is getting even worst...

I've finally choose to left debian because this problem and move to ubuntu. I've installed 9.04 with the "2.6.28-generic" kernel and then realized that to have my 4GB of ram recognized I had to install from repositories the "2.6.28-server" kernel (same version different flavor). Installed it and guess what? No sound after that:-/

Am I going to lost my sound every time I upgrade a kernel from the repositories?

Any ideas?
This is driving me crazy and I'm clueless...

piojosnos · 07-28-2009, 12:51 PM

Ok, solved the problem

It's not perfect, but at least I can listen music!

The clue that solved the problem was from this post:

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/...on-dv3500.html

And the solution was to create a "/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf" file with the following contents:

Quote:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=hp-m4

Then you can do as root:

Quote:

[root@foo ~]$/etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
[root@foo ~]$alsa force-reload
[root@foo ~]$/etc/init.d/alsa-utils start

It's probable that first time you do a stop / start on alsa-utils you see some errors on the console, further stop / start should work ok. But if that or other thing is giving trouble just delete /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and reload modules, that should do the trick.

Regards,