nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio

Asked by Alexander Sanabria

So i had my Ubuntu running an update and was installing when it froze! I reinstalled ubuntu and now my audio card is not working right. When i originally installed Ubuntu like a year ago i had the same problem but eventually got it to work, so the card has worked with Ubuntu perfectly before. But now i can't figure it out.

After running
"lspci -v | less"

i get the following for my audio card:

!!----------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
!!----------------------------------------------------------------------------

So then after i run

"wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash ./alsa-info.sh"

i get the following link results:

!!-------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=d36bd131f7a8796f2d05bc8ff3abc6c85d5427e2
!!--------------------------------------------------------------------------

so then i tried Installing ALSA from source with some time i got it installed but still nothing.
I can get alsaconfig to recognize my card and "activate" it but after i do it, I still don't get
anything, any help would help.

also tried "gnome-volume-control" and get this:
!!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
** (gnome-volume-control:2621): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...
!!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
over and over again

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Alexander Sanabria (alexandersanabria1) said :
#1

Wanted to add that i tried adding
"options snd-hda-intel model=3stack"

to my

"alsa-base.conf "

file but still nothing

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
#2

Your ALSA output shows the following issues:

!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version:
Library version: 1.0.23
Utilities version: 1.0.23

and

!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
!!--------------------------------

snd-atiixp-modem: index=-2
snd-intel8x0m: index=-2
snd-via82xx-modem: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2
snd-usb-us122l: index=-2
snd-usb-usx2y: index=-2
snd-usb-caiaq: index=-2
snd-hda-intel: model=3stack
snd-cmipci: mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
snd-pcsp: index=-2

Please REMOVE the line

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

from the file

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

and SAVE the change to the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file.

Another issue is that the ALSA driver is NOT installed on your PC.

In order to get the ALSA driver installed, please execute step 1 and step 2, then reboot and send us the full terminal output from step 3 and step 4 from this procedure:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure

Please also specify the exact model and make of PC (if known) that you are using.

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Alexander Sanabria (alexandersanabria1) said :
#3

So was upgrading last night to 10.04 lts and when i restarted got a grub error 7. so since this was a partition error decided to do a fresh CD installation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Did it, updated my drivers (video, NVIDIA) and sound worked right out of the box, technically speaking. So don't have any audio issues any more. Attached is a copy of my new alsa-base.conf file just thought i can add it.

!!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# autoloader aliases
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7

# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
#
# Workaround at bug #499695 (reverted in Ubuntu see LP #319505)
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-oss ; : ; }
#
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }

# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist saa7134-alsa ; : ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options saa7134-alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-us122l index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
# Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2
!!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------