How to get internal mic to work? (Toshiba Satellite L505D S5992)

[lidex]

I had a long break, but finally installed 10.10 and without any ACPI problem as described before (wit 10.04). The sound, however, is still an issue. I can't capture, have done all of the above (including the bug report) and was hoping you would still help me.

You may want to check for a bios update.Can you post the link to the bug report please? And for me this:
Use the alsa-info-script to provide detailed information.
Run this command in a terminal:

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

Choose the upload option and provide a link for the output.
[Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"]

[Comodín]

BIOS is up to date, if there's an update I should receive an e-mail from Toshiba. But I checked and I have the most recent BIOS. Strange thing is that I tried out the Live-CD of Mint 10 (64 bit) and the microphone captured out of the box, Skype worked. Strange, because I thought they derived Mint 10 from Ubuntu 10.10...

Methinks this is what you asked for?:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-...s/alsa-info.sh

[Comodín]

So, I thought maybe the Mint 10 Live-CD is working because it's a newer kernel or something. I downloaded the Ubuntu Live-CD (64 bit) again, installed it on a USB stick and if I run Ubuntu from the USB my mic is working and I can capture and Skype!! But alas, as soon as I install Ubuntu I'm back where I started, changing all the parameters but to no avail. The mic won't capture.

Maybe it has to do with the comment I get before boot, the same one as in my first post, but only now this line:

shpchp 0000.00:01.0 Cannot reserve MMIO region

[IcarusR]

shpchp 0000.00:01.0 Cannot reserve MMIO region

There is a but report on this here...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/577842

Does the id 00:01.0 relate to your sound card by any chance ?
Check output of

lspci

[lidex]

BIOS is up to date, if there's an update I should receive an e-mail from Toshiba. But I checked and I have the most recent BIOS. Strange thing is that I tried out the Live-CD of Mint 10 (64 bit) and the microphone captured out of the box, Skype worked. Strange, because I thought they derived Mint 10 from Ubuntu 10.10...

Methinks this is what you asked for?:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-...s/alsa-info.sh

No. That's the script, I need the output.

[Comodín]

Sorry Lidex, I'm pretty new at Ubuntu, although the date I joined this community says different. Hopefully you meant this: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Byu...thkey=CNWOur0B

I restarted my laptop to see if the numbers of the MMIO region warning are still the same. In my last post I just copied these numbers from my first post, when I was still using 10.04. So I thought I'd check it. For some strange reason this time it did not show this comment, it booted straight from Grub to the desktop without any alert. And guess what, I tried out the sound recorder, opened Pulseaudio and Alsa Mixer and it recorded my voice.

Afterwards I rebooted again and there was again unfortunately a (really quick) message of MMIO region, but I couldn't catch the numbers. And I booted again and again, always MMIO region warning and no capture.

How do I boot with the command line (and with which command) so that I can see the whole boot sequence?

How to check output of lspci???

[lidex]

That's it. Try this then.
Using a Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"
Open this file for editing:

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

Insert this line at the bottom:

 options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Save. Close. Reboot.
Check your levels in alsamixer.

 alsamixer

Press <F6> to select the correct soundcard.
Press <F3> to show playback levels. <F4> selects capture levels [or use <Tab>]
Use the left/right arrow keys to select and up/down arrow keys to change levels. <M> to mute/unmute.
Go to "System ->Preferences ->Sound" and make sure the correct soundcard is default and adjust your profile on the hardware tab.
On the output tab choose the correct device.

If you run this command in a terminal, you can see the last boot sequence:

dmesg | less

The above for scrolling, this next gives the whole thing at once:

dmesg

lspci is done the same way, simply enter the command in a terminal and press enter.

All your logs can be perused with log file viewer. It's good to have. The filename is gnome-system-log. To install:

sudo apt-get install gnome-system-log

Resides in the 'Applications>System>Administration' menu

[Comodín]

Something seems to have worked, by inserting the extra line in alsa-base.conf. As soon as I reboot and open PulseAudio, I click on Input Device and select All Input Device, I can see that the microphone is capturing sound. (Both Front Right slides are silenced, by the way.)

Unfortunately, as soon as I try to record with Soundrecorder, or change a setting with Alsamixer, the microphone freezes. I've tried this now several times.

Thanks for the pointing out the existence of Log File Viewer, that comes in handy. The MMIO region comment seems to have something to do with r8187se, although I have a r8180?!?

[   13.935656] udev[437]: starting version 163
[   14.014369] shpchp 0000:00:01.0: HPC vendor_id 1022 device_id 9602 ss_vid 1022 ss_did 9602
[   14.014374] shpchp 0000:00:01.0: Cannot reserve MMIO region
[   14.033273] r8187se: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

[Comodín]

The solution isn't the most elegant, but it works. I used the "solution" of uaaquarius in this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10144940

I added the extra line in alsa-base.conf and afterwards deleted Pulseaudio from Synaptic Package Manager. It worked and I can use Skype and record sound. Suddenly I have an extra slide in Alsa Mixer called Digital.

Thank you for your assistance!

[Comodín]

The reason I haven't marked this Thread as solved is that I'm still trying to get Pulseaudio somehow to work. The solution mentioned above does work, though the quality of recording is much lower than the few times I got it to work with Pulseaudio and furthermore, the sound adjust button on my laptop doesn't work anymore.

Every suggestion is welcome. Now planning to try and change model in alsa-base.conf randomly and see to what results that might lead.