after Jaunty upgrade, no sound exept from OSS

**Roland123** · April 23rd, 2009

ubuntu 9.04

After upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 sound stopped working on autodetect

when selecting system -> preferences -> sound -> autodetect, then no sound comes from speaker.

When selecting HDA Intel ALC883 ALSA and pressing test, i get an error: could not open device for playback.

Sound works only when OSS is selected.

aplay -l

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lspci -v

Code:

Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)                                                                                    
        Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc Device 0017                                        
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22                                    
        Memory at d2500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]                             
        Capabilities: <access denied>                                                        
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel                                                      
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

When using OSS, flash seems to have no sound and amarok 2 doesn't make any sound either.

Any ideas how to overcome this issue?

I appreciate any help you can give me.

Problem solved: LINK

**darweth** · April 24th, 2009

Same issues with these specs. OSS only thing that works. Worked fine in Intrepid.

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Code:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0107
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
	I/O ports at e080 [size=64]
	Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	Memory at febff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
	Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

**FaceLeg** · April 24th, 2009

Same issue here

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1708B Analog [VT1708B Analog]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: VT1708B Digital [VT1708B Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Code:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82ea
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at fea78000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

No sound in VLC, MPlayer, Exaile, Amarok2 ...

Thought I had broken something, reinstalled Jaunty - still no joy.

EDIT:

If I use "Sound playback" with gnome-sound-properties and select "HDA Intel VT1708B Analog (ALSA) and attempt to test the audio I get the message:

Code:

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open audio device for playback.

Testing all other all others except for OSS results in no message or sound. Testing OSS results in sound, but audio applications are still silent, though they do not complain about anything (no errors).

**mozychan** · April 24th, 2009

I'm not getting sound either, but unlike you guys I can't even get oss to work. Here's my situation:

Code:

mozychan@mozychan-laptop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

mozychan@mozychan-laptop:~$ lspci -v
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at d2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
	Memory at d2310000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

I am able to get sound with headphones... Any ideas?

-moose

**FaceLeg** · April 24th, 2009

Originally Posted by mozychan

I'm not getting sound either, but unlike you guys I can't even get oss to work. Here's my situation:

I am able to get sound with headphones... Any ideas?

-moose

By "work" I mean that when I press test the tone sounds. There is still no sound elsewhere ...

You mean sound works with headphones for you? How much - just the tone or everything?

**mozychan** · April 24th, 2009

Originally Posted by FaceLeg

By "work" I mean that when I press test the tone sounds. There is still no sound elsewhere ...

You mean sound works with headphones for you? How much - just the tone or everything?

um yeah, the oss test doesn't work for me.

everything works with the headphones. startup sound, flash videos, music... you name it.

speakers still work in windows...

-moose

**rcarlton** · April 24th, 2009

no sound from the Ubuntu RC a couple of days ago, and none from the Kubuntu official release today.

This is a recurring problem, I have had it working with 8.10 pretty successfully, but this upgrade is silent.

I get the same error messages and silent Test as noted above.

**OobNosferatu** · April 24th, 2009

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 and I get no sound whatsoever, and also have the same audio error as above.

Here's my situation:

Code:

sudo lshw -c multimedia
  *-multimedia            
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_i

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0690
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
	Memory at f4600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel


aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

It was working fine under Ubuntu 8.10

**bastubis** · April 24th, 2009

Slightly off-topic but in case it's any help to anyone else having a similar problem with the Intel HD 82801H Audio Controller - this seems to default to pretty much everything being turned off and not visible in Alsamixer. Sorry if teaching people to suck eggs, but did everyone hit 'preferences' in Alsamixer, select everything then turn everything you need on?

It was all fine in Intrepid, but after clean Jaunty installation I had sound on the front speaker but nothing on the side jacks (no side mic or headphones). Turned on 'side' in Alsamixer but side jacks didn't work until I turned on 'surround'.

**FaceLeg** · April 24th, 2009

Originally Posted by bastubis

Slightly off-topic but in case it's any help to anyone else having a similar problem with the Intel HD 82801H Audio Controller - this seems to default to pretty much everything being turned off and not visible in Alsamixer. Sorry if teaching people to suck eggs, but did everyone hit 'preferences' in Alsamixer, select everything then turn everything you need on?

It was all fine in Intrepid, but after clean Jaunty installation I had sound on the front speaker but nothing on the side jacks (no side mic or headphones). Turned on 'side' in Alsamixer but side jacks didn't work until I turned on 'surround'.

Thanks!

I had turned everything up in gnome-sound-preferences, but didn't know about alsamixer.

I had a look in there - everything was on. So I switched "indepen" off on a whim - lucky I didn't have my headphones on or I'd be partially deaf - it worked!

See attached screenshot highlighting relevant section:

Terminal, type "alsamixer". Press right until you find the circled option, turn it from on to off. Test.

Hopefully this works for more people!

Thanks bastubis!