Breezy on Acer laptop no sound!

[iNerdSure]

Breezy is the best distro I have installed so far. Have tried Mandriva 9.0 and 10.2 LE with many devices not detected. Then I experimented with Knoppix 4.0.2 LiveCD, Ubuntu 5.10rc LiveCD. And, now Breezy Badger 5.10 .. the best experience so far on my Acer 4061. Have decided to throw out WinXP.

However, the sound of silence is a let down. I hope someone has a simple explanation and an easy solution for a newbie Linux convert to fix this bug.

My :~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller ( rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definiti on Audio Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Exp ress Port 1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Exp ress Port 2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Exp ress Port 3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB 2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Contro ller (rev 04)
0000:06:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controlle r
0000:06:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
0000:06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C /8139C+ (rev 10)


And :~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
usbhid 30688 0
nls_utf8 2176 0
nls_cp437 5888 0
vfat 12288 0
fat 46492 1 vfat
sd_mod 17424 0
usb_storage 64704 0
scsi_mod 124872 2 sd_mod,usb_storage
rfcomm 34972 0
l2cap 22404 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 43012 4 rfcomm,l2cap
speedstep_centrino 7380 1
cpufreq_userspace 4444 1
cpufreq_stats 5124 0
freq_table 4484 2 speedstep_centrino,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 5916 0
cpufreq_conservative 6820 0
pcmcia 24584 2
i915 17920 1
drm 58004 2 i915
video 16004 0
tc1100_wmi 6916 0
sony_acpi 5516 0
pcc_acpi 11392 0
hotkey 9508 0
dev_acpi 11396 0
i2c_acpi_ec 5760 0
i2c_core 19728 1 i2c_acpi_ec
button 6672 0
battery 9604 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 217408 8
af_packet 20232 2
rtc 11832 0
ipw2200 92680 0
firmware_class 9472 1 ipw2200
ieee80211 27012 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 5636 2 ipw2200,ieee80211
yenta_socket 22540 1
rsrc_nonstatic 12032 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 44932 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
tpm_nsc 6528 0
tpm 9504 1 tpm_nsc
shpchp 80612 0
pci_hotplug 24628 1 shpchp
snd_hda_intel 15872 1
snd_hda_codec 72064 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 46368 0
snd_mixer_oss 16128 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78344 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd 48644 8 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9184 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp 21276 1
agpgart 32328 3 drm,intel_agp
joydev 9280 0
tsdev 7616 0
evdev 9088 1
psmouse 26116 0
mousedev 10912 1
parport_pc 31812 0
lp 11460 0
parport 32072 2 parport_pc,lp
md 40656 0
ext3 115976 2
jbd 48536 1 ext3
dm_mod 50364 4
thermal 13192 0
processor 23100 2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
fan 4740 0
8139too 23552 0
8139cp 18432 0
mii 5248 2 8139too,8139cp
ehci_hcd 29448 0
uhci_hcd 28048 0
usbcore 104188 5 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ide_cd 36996 0
cdrom 33952 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 16128 3
ide_generic 1664 0
piix 9476 1
ide_core 125268 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,piix
unix 24624 849
vesafb 8088 0
capability 5000 0
commoncap 6784 1 capability
vga16fb 12232 1
vgastate 8320 1 vga16fb
softcursor 2432 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbimgblt 2944 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbfillrect 3840 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbcopyarea 4480 2 vesafb,vga16fb
fbcon 34176 72
tileblit 2560 1 fbcon
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5248 1 fbcon

Thanks in advance.

[Muffe]

I have the same problem on a Travelmate 3000. I have already posted a thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75979 It is probably something with the drivers... I wonder about upgrading to the 2.6.13 kernel...

[spooky-mac]

Have you checked if everything got unmuted? Have you run alsaconf already from a terminal as superuser or root?

[Muffe]

Here is the message I get when I try to run amixer as root:

amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

and when I run alsamixer:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

Guess it's not unmuted channels...

[shenki]

see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=412151#post412151

This is about the 5th post thismorning I've read on the Intel HD Audio (ICH6) sound not working. It seems the issue is much more widespread than previously thought, and should have been fixed before releasing breezy.

[iNerdSure]

Originally Posted by spooky-mac Have you checked if everything got unmuted? Have you run alsaconf already from a terminal as superuser or root?

Yes, I have un-mute all settings via alsamixer. Anyway, on Breezy, there is no superuser or root access by default. The first "user" is the "admin" as well. And there's no "alsaconf" command in Breezy.

Can you please elaborate. Thanks.

[kingsidy]

i installed it on an acer aspire 1680 and everything run fine just as it did in hoary.

[iNerdSure]

Any special setting that you used on Acer 1680?

[er-ku]

Hello, iNerdSure,
have you resolved your problem or not? I'm now having exactly the same problem with a TravelMate 4061NLMi, and I want it solved. If you are already able to play music in Linux on your laptop, i'd really appreciate if you told us what you've done to achieve that...

regards,
newly registered RQ

[Muffe]

I still have this problem too, but the only thing I've tried to do to solve it is to download and recompile the 2.6.13 kernel, all settings as in the 2.6.12 kernel shipped with Breezy as default.

I've heard rumours about a bug related to Intel HDA controllers in the ALSA 1.0.9b package (the one that comes with Breezy), so maybe an upgrade to 1.0.10rc2 may do the trick... I don't know.

If someone get this soundcard to work, please post a walkthrough or something to let us others know.