No Sound from mother board based sound card, ALC861vd
This is a new pc build, my 6th, first time with Linux. Also new to Linux although I played with Unix many moon ago.
I can not get the sound card to play anything. I also tried the front panel headers on the pc, double and triple checked the connections (back connections are on the board). I verified volume controls are not muted, tried the digital, analog, and auto detect settings. Tried with speakers and headset in all jacks.
I read some of the other posts. I am including some of the print outs requested in the other posts.
:~$ aplay --list-devices
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC861VD Analog [ALC861VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC861VD Digital [ALC861VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device cb84
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 3407
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 3407
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at fc00 [size=64]
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=64]
I/O ports at 1c40 [size=64]
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 3407
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 3407
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 3407
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 820d
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 3407
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 2505
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Unknown device 5405
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fcffffff
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fdb00000-fdbfffff
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7300 LE (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 7300LE PCI Express Graphics Adapter
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
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~$ lspnp -v
lspnp: /proc/bus/pnp not available
The last item would not run until I loaded package pnpbios=tools.
Am at a stand still. Looks like the drivers are loaded, saw Capabilities <access denied> which raises a question in my mind. Do not suspect a mother board issue but want to rule out everything first. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
John K.
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- 2007-07-20
| John K (jkadlecik) said : | #1 |
Forgot to mention load is ubuntu 7.04
| Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) said : | #2 |
What are you trying to play? Is this by chance related to codecs, I mean mp3?
| John K (jkadlecik) said : | #3 |
Any sound, system sound, tried cd audio, wav file. Can hear the audio device initialize when the system boots, but can not get the sound to play.
I realize that mother board sound cards are marginal at best. I am in the process of installing a Creative Labs Audigy SE in my windows machine so I can use a Creative Labs Live 24 bit in my ubuntu machine. I read the notes on SE and the problem with Creative drivers. Will update with status in a few hours.
| John K (jkadlecik) said : | #4 |
Creative card worked without a hitch. I disabled the on board audio first, then shut down, inserted the card, booted up and had sound.
Next I shut the pc down, pulled the Creative sound card. On boot up I entered the bios and enabled the on board audio again. Now the on board works. I looked at Alsamixer again, see no change. Shut back down, reinstalled the Creative Card, now I have two sound cards. Both work.
Did I somehow enable something with activation of the Creative driver that I missed with the on board audio driver? I am at a loss to explain.
| John K (jkadlecik) said : | #5 |
Something must have been stuck, do not know what the issue was, motherboard, software, but now fixed and both working.
| Ziv Kohav (ziv-kohav) said : | #6 |
John,
I have the exact same problem- same card. The only difference I see is that my audio revision is a2 and not a1, but everything else is the same. I don't have another card to install like you did, but it seems from your solution that this may not be needed. Did you manage to figure out what was the problem there in the first place?
Thanks,
Ziv
| John K (jkadlecik) said : | #7 |
Ziv,
I have no idea why it was recognized when the sound card was installed. I reloaded ubuntu again because I hosed up the permissions file that we are not suppose to touch with root login. I just looked, the on board audio does not work again. The Creative sound card is working fine. I did not notice until you brought it up. I don't know why it was detected and worked when I installed the sound card the first time. At a loss.
John
| Ziv Kohav (ziv-kohav) said : | #8 |
I actually solved it last night. It was such a relief after 7 hours of browsing through Ubuntu forums. Apparently there's an ALSA patch number 14 which fixes the whole thing. It's 1.0.14rc3 and there are three folders with this patch: alsa-driver-
Good luck.
Ziv
