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alsa-driver package

No sound with nVidia HDA + RealTek ALC883

Bug #77024 reported by Jim Louvau
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: alsa-base

I have an MSI laptop with an nVidia chipset. Audio is nVidia HDA (MCP51) with a Realtek ALC883 (Azalia) chipset back-end. All of the hardware is detected perfectly and all of the application appear to see the hardware and be working fine, but I have no sound. Yes, I've been through all of the volume & sound configurations and everything is turned up and no muted. I've even double-checked the gui with alsamixer. No sound from the speakers or headphones. Behavior is very similar to the issues reported in bug #63971 (Acer laptops not working with ALC883). I haven't been able to try the upstream fix in 1-0-14rc1, because even when the packages compile nad install fine, Gnome won't initialize properly after they've been installed (hangs at splash screen). Sound controls show the ALSA mixer as "HDA nvidia" and OSS mixer as "Realtek ALC883".

snd_hda_intel 20116 1
snd_hda_codec 164608 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 47360 0
snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 84612 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25348 1 snd_pcm
snd 58372 8 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

And lspci:

00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

And lshw:

*-multimedia
          description: Audio device
          product: MCP51 High Definition Audio
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 10.1
          bus info: pci@00:10.1
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=HDA Intel
          resources: iomemory:febb8000-febbbfff irq:58

And aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/alsa-driver
Jim Louvau (jlouvau)
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Jim Louvau (jlouvau) wrote :

I applied the patch to the 1.0.12 sources and installed them as described here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=322817&highlight=mcp51.
Everything still looks fine, but there's still no sound.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Fixed in 1.0.14rc1.

Changed in alsa-driver:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
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Jim Louvau (jlouvau) wrote : Re: [Bug 77024] Re: No sound with nVidia HDA + RealTek ALC883

Daniel T Chen wrote:
> Fixed in 1.0.14rc1.
>
> ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Committed
>
>
 Do you know if this fix will be released for Edgy? I've tried building
the 1.0.14rc1 files from source, but they cause all sorts of problems at
runtime (I built the drivers, utils and libs). No problem with 1.012,
but 1.0.13 has issues also.

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Jim Louvau (jlouvau) wrote :

Fix confirmed to work. I was missing one of the config switches the first time I tried building 1.0.14rc1:

./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-oss=yes

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :
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alsa-driver (1.0.14-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/alsa-base.modprobe: Load snd-seq,
    - debian/alsa-base.postinst: Forcibly remove /etc/modprobe.d/sound
      on dist-upgrade,
    - debian/control: Don't Depend on modutils, and adhere to
      DebianMaintainerField,
    - debian/linux-sound-base.dirs: Don't create modutils or discover,
    - debian/rules: Enable MPU for snd-cmipci,
    - Only ship modprobe configuration,
    - Remove default mode,
    - Invoke modprobe with -Qb and command line options,
    - Remove modprobe post-install script in favour of using udev,
    - Continue to ship the initscript in the apm scripts dir.
  * New upstream version closes LP: #45841, LP: #51357, LP: #57294,
    LP: #59569, LP: #63971, LP: #66843, LP: #68930, LP: #75725,
    LP: #77024, LP: #77099, LP: #77101, LP: #83015, LP: #87195,
    LP: #88546, LP: #88570, LP: #90417, LP: #91721, LP: #92307,
    LP: #92358, LP: #95597, LP: #108563, LP: #110599, LP: #115186,
    LP: #118173, LP: #119086.

alsa-driver (1.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (closes: #391991, #401074, #421853)

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * debian/control: add XS-Vcs-Browser and XS-Vcs-Svn headers.

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]

  * Patch management switched to quilt. This is more comfortable.
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf templates.
    Thanks, debian-l10n-english contributors (closes: #425208).
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf translations:
    Galician: Jacobo Tarrio (closes: #425804).
    Japanese: Kenshi Muto (closes: #426007).
    Portuguese: Traduz (closes: #426111).
    Malayalam: Praveen A (closes: #426241).
    German: Helge Kreutzmann (closes: #426375).
    Czech: Miroslav Kure (closes: #426427).
    Vietnamese: Clytie Siddall (closes: #427148).
    Dutch: Bart Cornelis (closes: #428032).
    Russian: Yuri Kozlov (closes: #428136).
    Spanish: Carlos Galisteo de Cabo (closes: #428572)
    Swedish: Daniel Nylander (closes: #426202)
    Catalan: Jordi Mallach (closes: #428224)
  * Added alsa-drivers debconf templates translations:
    Basque: Piarres Beobide (closes: #425810).
    Bulgarian: Damyan Ivanov (closes: #425854).
    Tamil: Tirumurti Vasudevan (closes: #426081).
    Italian: Luca Monducci (closes: #426152).
    Korean: Sunjae Park (closes: #426618).
    Arabic: Ossama Khayat (closes: #428264)

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate.
  * Added Malayalam translation. Thanks Santhosh Thottingal. (closes: #419524)

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate
  * Merged etch changes

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate
  * Removed debian/patches/98_ens1371_inaudible_sound_def.dpatch. Applied
    different from upstream

alsa-driver (1.0.13-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * Added snd-seq-midi as an optional load above generic modules (snd-rawmidi)
    Thanks Eduard Dumitrescu for testing. (closes: #408036)
  * Added "cx88_alsa (PCI: TV cards...." to d...

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Changed in alsa-driver:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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