Bug 1119160

Summary: sound on speakers is missing by default after update to 3.15 kernels
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, lsatenstein, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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results from 0.4.63 alsa-info run
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2014-07-14 07:34:05 UTC
Description of problem:

After an update to 3.15 kernels there is no sound on speakers after a boot.  Playing with volume controls and muting/unmuting sound does not have any effect.  The only way I found to get speakers back is to plug-in headphones, where sounds appears,
and unplug.  After that operation speakers are active again - until the next reboot.  A suspend operation does not change their
status (neither active, nor inactive).

A hardware in question is ASUS K52J, x86_64, laptop.  For now I did not have an opportunity to try that elsewhere.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.15.3-200.fc20.x86_64
kernel-3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
always


Additional info:
Could be some "difference of opinions" between kernel, alsa and pulseaudio but pulseaudio was updated last time in April and alsa components nearly a year ago.  Up to the latest kernel updates headphones were not needed for "waking up" speakers and headphonse are quite often not on hands.

Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2014-07-14 08:13:41 UTC
Created attachment 917700 [details]
results from 0.4.63 alsa-info run

Speakers were "activates", by a method described in this report, when this script was running.

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2014-07-17 13:20:34 UTC
Created attachment 918701 [details]
essential differences in alsa-info output between broken and unbroken sound

This diff is for equally broken 3.15.5-200.fc20.x86_64 kernel.  The first run of alsa-info was after a reboot with no sound on speakers and the second after plugging and unplugging headphones to restore a speaker sound.

Comment 3 Leslie Satenstein 2014-11-01 16:50:18 UTC
vmlinuz-3.17.1-304.fc21.x86_64

Sound cards are not detected.  Dummy card shown

Previous version 

vmlinuz-3.17.1-303.fc21.x86_64  both sound cards detected, sound works.

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2014-11-01 22:43:09 UTC
(In reply to Leslie Satenstein from comment #3)
> vmlinuz-3.17.1-304.fc21.x86_64
> 
> Sound cards are not detected.  Dummy card shown

Would you, please, open another bug targetting Fedora 21 instead of 20?  As a matter of fact with the current F20 kernel-3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64, and likely earlier as well, that particular bug from the original report is gone.  Regrettably I have no idea what actually fixed that but the fact remains that this is now ok (although, for example, skype still does not want produce sound for me on 64-bit F20 installations while it worked fine in the past).