fglx killing sound

Asked by Terry Scott

System is built around a three(ish) year old Gigabyte m/b with on board sound and radeon HD 6140 graphics.
I use a DVI to HDMI into my Toshiba television as a monitor and a cable connecting the green audio port into the television for audio.
I've been using 14.04 since it was released with no problems.
Tried 14.10 but no sound so discarded it.
During May and update was released for fglrx (I tend to do all software updates just before shutting down for the day).
Next day a kernel update then next day noticed no sound.
As per various post's, played around with pulseaudio and alsamixer - still no sound.
As 15.04 was available, installed it into a new partition, checked it out and had sound.
Loaded updates, ubuntu-restricted-extras, fglrx and regular packages - no sound.
Re-installed 15.04 and updates - sound ok.
installed fglrx and no sound.
Un-installed fglrx and sound came back.
Took fglrx off 14.04 system and got sound.
Options:-
1) install fglrx to get good graphics and no sound - not really an option.
2) leave fglrx off and get sound but poor resolution - not ideal but usable.
3) get an new graphics board, either radeon or Nvidia and hope that the drivers will work better with a newer card, possibly pushing sound through an HDMI connection which I currently don't have.
4) throw the toys out of the pram and get a new m/b

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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If 14.04 worked, why did you fix it?

14.04 is LTS and supported til April 2019. 15.04 is only supported 9 months......

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Terry Scott (terrykscott57) said :
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Sound ok on 14.04.02 LTS until the fglrx update.
Can now only get sound on either the 14.04 or the 15.04 system if fglrx is un-installed, thus leaving me with the X server graphics driver

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

What is the output of:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && chmod +x ./alsa-info.sh && ./alsa-info.sh --upload

Thanks

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Terry Scott (terrykscott57) said :
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http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=077430e3de3d016f3b267bafc31b33b4f1fdf06a

The above was performed with fglrx un-instaled on the 14.04 system.

The following was taken previously with fglrx active:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1458092

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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Terry Scott (terrykscott57) said :
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With this driver I do have sound:- Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.6, 128 bits)
With this driver I don't have sound:-Gallium 0.4 on AMD SUMO2

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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