Re: [Alsa-user] Realtek High Definition Audio and Fedora 9
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Re: [Alsa-user] Realtek High Definition Audio and Fedora 9
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From: GN <gni...@tp...> - 2008-11-21 02:33:20
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Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:18, GN wrote:
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 13:41, GN wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I cannot get sound to work on my Medion MD96420 laptop. According to
>>>> Vista the card is a Realtek High Definition Audio card. Maker Realtek
>>>> Semiconductor Corp.. Driver Version (for Vista) 6.0.1.5523. Two of them
>>>> are listed, one at Location 2 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus) and
>>>> Location 0 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus).
>>>>
>>>> Under Fedora 9 the audio card is listed as Intel Corp.82801H (ICH
>>>> Family) HD Audio Controller (Rev. 03)
>>>>
>>>> Works fine under Vista but absolutely nothing under Fedora 9. I tried to
>>>> build the Linux driver from the realtek site (LinuxPkg_5.07.tar.bz2
>>>> which unpacks to realtek-linux-audiopack-5.07) but it fails complaining
>>>> about needing curses. I have all the ncurses RPMs installed. I have had
>>>> no response from the Realtek support people about this.
>>>>
>>>> I tried building the drivers from the latest alsa-drivers tarball. All
>>>> went OK and installed without error. Again nothing...
>>>>
>>>> The main problem I see is that there is no way to start the sound
>>>> server. There is no option in the sound preferences utility as described
>>>> in the help file for it. See attachment. System > Administration >
>>>> Services had alsasound and alsasound.new. Both showed as running but not
>>>> enabled. I enabled both but didn't help. Re-booted, still no sound. The
>>>> ALSA driver is running according to the alsasound script.
>>>>
>>>> /sbin/lsmod | grep snd gives the following:
>>>>
>>>> [graeme@flintstone Download]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
>>>> snd_hda_intel 376568 0
>>>> snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
>>>> snd_seq_oss 30748 0
>>>> snd_seq_midi_event 9728 1 snd_seq_oss
>>>> snd_seq 45604 5
>>>> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device
>>>> 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>>>> snd_pcm_oss 36640 0
>>>> snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss
>>>> snd_pcm 63108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
>>>> snd_timer 21128 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>>>> snd_page_alloc 11656 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>>>> snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
>>>> snd 47032 10
>>>> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_o
>>>> ss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore
>>>> 9288 1 snd
>>>> [graeme@flintstone Download]$
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps pulseaudio needs to be stopped. but I cannot see how to do that
>>>> at the moment. Clicking on the Volume Control in the panel elicits "No
>>>> volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found" Opening the
>>>> pulseaudio volume control shows "no streams, no sinks and no sources
>>>> available" Got me stumped!
>>>>
>>>> I have the following alsa rpms installed as well as the alsa-driver
>>>> tarball I installed yesterday:
>>>>
>>>> [graeme@flintstone utils]$ rpm -qa | grep alsa
>>>> bluez-utils-alsa-3.32-1.fc9.i386
>>>> alsa-oss-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386
>>>> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386
>>>> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
>>>> alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
>>>> alsa-oss-libs-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386
>>>> alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
>>>> [graeme@flintstone utils]$
>>>>
>>>> Has anybody managed to get this sound card working? All help
>>>> appreciated.
>>> Hi. Can you post a bit of output please.
>>>
>>> cat /proc/asound/cards
>>> cat /proc/asound/version
>>> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
>>>
>>> If the card is shown as card0, open alsamixer as user on a terminal, as
>>> below. alsamixer -D hw:0
>>>
>>> This will show all the playback controls. There may be something muted (M
>>> key toggles mute/unmute), or some sliders may need pushing up. The main
>>> ones would be Master, PCM, and Front, along with the CD one if you are
>>> trying sounds with a music cd.
>>>
>>> You may need to set a model option for snd-hda-intel in
>>> /etc/modprobe.conf, as below.
>>> options snd-hda-intel model=medion
>>>
>>> Then reboot, and check alsamixer again.
>>>
>>> Just some suggestions.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>> Hi Nigel,
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> There are no sound cards recognised, and I don't understand why. See
>> following;
>>
>> [graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
>> --- no soundcards ---
>> [graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version
>> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a.
>> Compiled on Nov 18 2008 for kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 (SMP).
>> [graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
>> cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec#0: No such file or directory
>> [graeme@flintstone ~]$
>>
>> Is there something really basic I'm missing?
>
>
> Hi Graeme.
Hi Nigel,
Thank you very much for your help to date. I am much further along today
because of it.
>
> I see that on your original post here, that you say Vista identified 2
> instances, and I have seen this before where the soundcard uses
> snd-hda-intel, and a sound component in the graphics card also uses
> snd-hda-intel (HDMI I think).
>
> As your lsmod line for snd-hda-intel shows that nothing is using it, signified
> by the "0" at the end of the line, how about removing the module, and
> re-installing it. Do an su to root on the CLI (terminal), and run the
> commands below.
> rmmod snd-hda-intel
> modprobe snd-hda-intel
No errors with the above commands.
>
> If rmmod complains, use modprobe -r snd-hda-intel
>
> Then run, cat /proc/asound/cards again.
OK. I added the line you suggested to /etc/modprobe.conf and it was the
factor that got me to the point where I am at now.
The following now shows up for the three commands you asked me to do;
[graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 22
[graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a.
Compiled on Nov 18 2008 for kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 (SMP).
[graeme@flintstone ~]$
The output for cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 is attached as it is large.
>
> Can you post the output of /sbin/lspci -vv as well. Post the whole lot, as we
> can trim it on the reply.
It is also attached.
>
> Did you by the way try adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf?
> options snd-hda-intel model=medion
Yes. This got me to where I am currently. I now have the the panel
volume controls working but I am still not able to get any audio out of
the machine.
alsamixer and amixer still do not work. See following;
[graeme@flintstone ~]$ amixer
ALSA lib simple_none.c:1491:(simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Headphone
Playback Switch',0,2,0) appears twice or more
amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument
[graeme@flintstone ~]$ alsamixer
ALSA lib simple_none.c:1491:(simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Headphone
Playback Switch',0,2,0) appears twice or more
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument
[graeme@flintstone ~]$
>
> I may be running out of suggestions, but your info provided, may bring others
> in on helping to resolve your problem.
You have been extremely helpful and I really appreciate it. I now think
we are close to getting it working.
--
Kind regards,
Graeme Nichols.
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