ALSA Upgrade Script

[lkjoel]

Ran the script hoping to get 5 channel audio. Now when I boot the machine I get audio and can see my card in gnome-volume-control for about 5 minutes then audio stops and when I go back into gnome-volume-control the hardware is no longer listed.

Any thoughts? going to run the script again with -r and hope for the best.



Running Ubuntu 10.04, 2.6.32-24-generic-pae
Alsa 1.0.23
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xf9f78000 irq 20
Alsa Log: http://pastebin.com/jn19xyB1

Have you tried using the -s option?

[CarpKing]

This is the driver provided by the manufacturer (Realtek). So would I then be correct in assuming that I need to wait for them to upgrade their driver package to support the latest kernel in use on Maverick?

You may be in the same boat as I am. I am trying to install the Linuxant driver for my Conexant card. I can only compile successfully with this script using -s, otherwise I get the same error I get with the .deb of the Linuxant driver. The driver also comes as a patch, but it only applies successfully to the stable version of ALSA.

The patch seems to claim that it is GPL; I wonder why it isn't in ALSA by default.

[AppleBonker]

You may be in the same boat as I am. I am trying to install the Linuxant driver for my Conexant card. I can only compile successfully with this script using -s, otherwise I get the same error I get with the .deb of the Linuxant driver. The driver also comes as a patch, but it only applies successfully to the stable version of ALSA.

The patch seems to claim that it is GPL; I wonder why it isn't in ALSA by default.

I don't think it's a driver issue on my end anymore. I can get some audio out of the analog ports on my card with the realtek driver as well as the standard alsa driver (unfortunately it is at a terribly low volume and distorted). I can't even compile the driver (not using this script) in Maverick. But, it compiles fine in Lucid. Both installs yield the same buggy analog results though.

[ginjaninjaa]

Hi all,

Am having a problem with alsa on 2.6.32-25-generic kernel. started wit yavdr 0.3 and did a dist upgrade and got the new kernel.

So after a few hours of removing alsa-dkms and backports. I used the script provide here with the -s option to install the alsa driver.

the card is seen and the module is loaded but the aplay say no card available
alsa info locate here
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=7a...296882b148e23c

anyone any ideas.

Chris

[Paulgirardin]

This upgrade failed for me.

See here:

/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23/include/config1.h:175: warning: "CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE" redefined
./include/generated/autoconf.h:2222: note: this is the location of the previous definition
/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23/acore/pcm_native.c: In function ‘snd_pcm_hw_params’:
/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23/acore/pcm_native.c:489: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pm_qos_remove_requirement’
/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23/acore/pcm_native.c:492: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pm_qos_add_requirement’
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23/acore/pcm_native.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23/acore] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.23/alsa-driver-1.0.23] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
make: *** [compile] Error 2

***************************************************************************
*  alsa-driver-1.0.23 make failed
***************************************************************************

The compilation step would not proceed and now the ALSA info script output is:

ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59
--------------------------------

This script visits the following commands/files to collect diagnostic
information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware.

  dmesg
  lspci
  lsmod
  aplay
  amixer
  alsactl
  /proc/asound/
  /sys/class/sound/
  ~/.asoundrc (etc.)

See 'alsa-info.sh --help' for command line options.

cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/asound/modules: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /dev/snd/*: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1504: No soundcards found...
cat: /tmp/alsa-info.iWezHwJd8O/alsactl.tmp: No such file or directory
Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org? [y/N] : y
Uploading information to www.alsa-project.org ...  Done!

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=9fbbe4189007e384ac6d9a5abdff51cac0e51797

[Yellow Pasque]

The script does not work on Maverick unless you use the -s option to grab a snapshot. Maverick already has the latest ALSA release anyway..

[Paulgirardin]

Any suggestions on how to recover from this?

[lkjoel]

Any suggestions on how to recover from this?

Use the -r or the -s option.

[CarpKing]

Hmm... I know this is somewhat tangential to this thread, but I wonder if I could apply the Linuxant patch to the source code of Ubuntu's default ALSA. I have the alsa-source package installed, but I'm not sure how to patch or compile it, as it doesn't seem to have the same directories as the source code downloaded by this script.

[CarpKing]

And so, in the end, my problem was fixed by other means.

I added

options snd-hda-intel model=ideapad

to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and installed updated ALSA modules as per this page.

The latter is probably what fixed my problem, but I'm not completely confident in my restarting of ALSA/pulseaudio while fiddling with the alsa-base.conf options (I did not reboot until the module upgrade).

Sorry for the noise, but hopefully this helps someone.