Lucid Lynx install, w/ volume but no sound, ATI Tech Inc IXP SB4x0 HD Aud Ctlr rev01

[kohrime]

Hi! I'm relatively new at Ubuntu & Linux. I just installed Lucid Lynx and I'm currently having problem of having no sound at all in my laptop (ECS Elitegroup W341UI).

Actually, I first installed Karmic Koala like 2 months ago and it still has that same problem that it didn't had any sound even though there is volume control and is not muted. I never gotten the sound to work in Karmic. When I heard the Lucid Lynx was out, I installed that and it didn't have any sound.

Here's a screenshot that it does have volume (http://i48.tinypic.com/238qag.png) but it doesn't output any sound when I'm playing videos or mp3s.

I tried reading this guide - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting - but still no avail. Tried aplay Front_Left.wav & Front_Right.wav but it doesn't play anything at all. In that troubleshooting tutorial, where the info is asked in ALSA I got this link - http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=c9d9b3b82576f3e05f516b7561189ea574c96e2c

Here is also the lspci of my laptop:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
08:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)I'm quite sure the sound should be okay as it's currently dualboot with Windows XP and it didn't have problems with the the audio in that OS. It only happens when I've installed Ubuntu Karmic and now Ubuntu Lucid.

After countless google & search in this forums for a solution, I haven't found anything to solve this problem at all OTL I'm sorry but I'm honestly quite a n00b still in Linux so I'm not sure if what I'm doing is correct, just endlessly reading and learning here and there ^^;;

Any help to solve this problem will be much appreciated *bows deeply*

Ais

[lrgmmc]

can you post your
aplay -l

[kohrime]

Hi lrgmmc and thanks for replying :D

Here is aprl -l


**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0o.o different? (Okay, sorry, I don't get it OTL)

[lrgmmc]

post
cat /proc/asound/version

[kohrime]

Here is my cat /proc/asound/version

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.

[lrgmmc]

ok i came across a couple posts that said to upgrade alsa.

http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/same sound card as hp mini note 1000. please report back to let us know how it goes.

[kohrime]

Okay, thanks lrgmmc :) Will update you how this goes *crosses fingers*

[kohrime]

OTL I did everything on the tutorial (even though there were some warnings I noticed here and there during the compilation but not that alarming that will be giving it a halt) but to my dismay still no audio OTL

I checked my cat /proc/asound/version now and it is now really upgraded to 1.0.23

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Compiled on May 30 2010 for kernel 2.6.32-21-generic (SMP).The aplay -l looks like this

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0The lspci looks like this

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
08:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)Kindly please help to solve this *bows deeply*

Just tested and checked the sound preferences (http://i46.tinypic.com/20b1tl4.png) and it does detect the player. I'm sure I'm not deaf but I can't hear anything coming out from the speakers of the laptop nor when I plugged in my earphones OTL Kindly help please *bows deeply*

[lrgmmc]

here is another suggestion i found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318942/comments/11 it is the same as above except a few changes when compiling. try that and let me know.

[kohrime]

Just checked and it's not muted there... (http://i46.tinypic.com/157ez9y.png)

[lrgmmc]

if all fails we can have you try updating your kernel.that worked on my netbook.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9379528&postcount=208

[kohrime]

I just did :) Okay, will try compiing & downgrading then :) Or wait, should I just do editing of alsa-base.conf?

[lrgmmc]

well there were some diffrent ./configure options that were needed so i would do it again then.

[kohrime]

Okay :)

Anyway, I was in the middle of this task (compiling)

./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)


when it gave me this error

CC [M] /home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/memory.o
CC [M] /home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.o
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c: In function ‘snd_info_entry_prepare’:
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c:161: error: ‘struct proc_dir_entry’ has no member named ‘owner’
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c: In function ‘snd_info_register’:
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c:1020: error: ‘struct proc_dir_entry’ has no member named ‘owner’
make[3]: *** [/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic'
make: *** [compile] Error 2
OTL

[lrgmmc]

you re downloaded the files right?

[kohrime]

Yeah, I downloaded the files and I mean, when I enter "make" at the terminal, it gave that error OTL

[lrgmmc]

you might have to remove the old ones
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop
then try again

[kohrime]

I just removed them with the commands you gave me and entered it at the terminal. Entered "make" but still the same error as above -


CC [M] /home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.o
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c: In function ‘snd_info_entry_prepare’:
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c:161: error: ‘struct proc_dir_entry’ has no member named ‘owner’
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c: In function ‘snd_info_register’:
/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.c:1020: error: ‘struct proc_dir_entry’ has no member named ‘owner’
make[3]: *** [/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore/info.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic'
make: *** [compile] Error 2OTL

I just realized when I do the command
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)

I get this

checking for current directory... /home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19
checking cross compile...
checking for directory with kernel source... ./configure: line 4820: cd: /usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory
/usr/src/linux-headers-
checking for directory with kernel build...
checking for kernel linux/version.h... no
The file /include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
sources (default is /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/build).

[lrgmmc]

ok now i think it is a good time to just upgrade you kernel. not that hard either.

mkdir 2.6.34
cd 2.6.34
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb)
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-image-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-image-2.6.34-020634-generic_2.6.34-020634_i386.deb)
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634_2.6.34-020634_all.deb (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634_2.6.34-020634_all.deb)
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-source-2.6.34_2.6.34-020634_all.deb (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/linux-source-2.6.34_2.6.34-020634_all.deb)
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

[kohrime]

Will do that now :D Thank you so much for helping me lrgmmc :'D

[kohrime]

I just finished installing the new kernel as you instructed. Should I get back in installing the alsa-driver-1.0.19? ^^;;

[lrgmmc]

need to reboot. then test if audio if not the ya start the installing.

[kohrime]

Rebooted but it said something like "ureadhead" something something at the beginning before going to the main OS o.o

Anyway, I entered this at terminal

./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-
And it still gave me this

checking for current directory... /home/zeldais/alsa-driver-1.0.19
checking cross compile...
checking for directory with kernel source... ./configure: line 4820: cd: /usr/src/linux-headers-: No such file or directory
/usr/src/linux-headers-
checking for directory with kernel build...
checking for kernel linux/version.h... no
The file /include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
sources (default is /lib/modules/2.6.34-020634-generic/build).OTL

Edit: And oh, I can't hear anything at the speakers of my laptop still OTL

[lrgmmc]

lspci -v

and post

[kohrime]

Here's the lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Kernel modules: ati-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: c0000000-c00fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000038000000-00000000381fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: b0000000-b1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000b2000000-00000000b3ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at c0504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at c0505000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at c0506000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
Memory at c0507000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-piix4

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
Kernel modules: pata_atiixp

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 27
Memory at c0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0300000-f03fffff

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 205f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 17
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]

Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Rioworks Device 2054
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
Memory at c0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2

08:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8225
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8180
Kernel modules: rtl8180

Hmm...

[lrgmmc]

ok i will get back on later today got to get back to work. but i'll keep looking and we'll find a solution.

[kohrime]

Thanks a whole bunch :D I subscribed to this thread through email now :) Take care with work :D

[lrgmmc]

ok maybe we will make some better head way today. so if you could post the output from
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

[kohrime]

cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec outputted

Codec: SigmaTel STAC9200
Codec: LSI ID 1040

Thanks again :D

[lrgmmc]

ok try this
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.confand if you see

options snd-hda-intel model=xxxxchange it to look like

options snd-hda-intel model=oqoif it's not there add it to the end of the file. save and reboot.
there are other models to choose so if it dont work try these as well

dell-d21
dell-d22
dell-d23
dell-m21
dell-m22
dell-m23
dell-m24
dell-m25
dell-m26
dell-m27
gateway-m4
gateway-m4-2
panasonic
i know it is a lot to try but it is what this site sugested
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowtoand i got the model from this site
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt good luck

[kohrime]

Yes! Finally! Finally the audio worked! *confettis* Thanks a whole lot lrgmmc! Your first suggestion did the job already! Yes! ^_____^

To summarize, next time I fresh install Lucid Lynx, I will just do your last post to make the audio work, right? (edit only the alsa-base.conf?)

[lrgmmc]

that sound right. so that is what i would do now since we change a lot of stuff. freash install and then edit the alsa-base.conf.

[lrgmmc]

well have a good day or night. oh and if you have any q's just pm me and i will be glade to help. oh and mark the forum as solved.

[kohrime]

Yeah, there were lots of changes done so that's what I'm going to do first thing tomorrow, fresh install Lucid Lynx XD

Again, I humbly and sincerely thank you for your patience and your big big help in solving my audio problem lrgmmc *bows very deeply*

[buvesz]

Hi. I have the exact same problem as you. With the same soundcard :

When you edited the alsa-base.conf file, what did you put in the end ?


options snd-hda-intel model=oqo

or one of those other models ?


dell-d21
dell-d22
dell-d23
dell-m21
dell-m22
dell-m23
dell-m24
dell-m25
dell-m26
dell-m27
gateway-m4
gateway-m4-2
panasonic

[kohrime]

Hi buvesz ^_^

I only changed that first suggestion and the sound worked :3

options snd-hda-intel model=oqo