Bug 304251

Summary: Sound fails to play on eMachines laptop with ATI chipset and ALi audio.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Arthur Wilkinson <gt500>
Component: system-config-soundcardAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 7   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Archive containing both log files from soundcard failure. none

Description Arthur Wilkinson 2007-09-24 23:29:34 UTC
Description of problem:
    Sound driver does not work on eMachines laptop with ATI chipset.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
    Every time I install Fedora 7 or try to debug audio on this laptop.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 7.
2. Test sound.
3. Listen carefully.
  
Actual results:
    Silence.


Expected results:
    The test sound plays.


Additional info:
    Laptop is about 4 or 5 years old. Audio worked fine under Windows XP. Logs 
from sound setup are attached.

Comment 1 Arthur Wilkinson 2007-09-24 23:29:34 UTC
Created attachment 204661 [details]
Archive containing both log files from soundcard failure.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2007-09-25 08:57:13 UTC
Hm, could be the problem this one?

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [LNK7] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
AC'97 1 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
ali mixer 1 creating error.

It looks like a kernel/drivers problem. I recommend you to report it to
ALSA-project (www.alsa-project.org) and attach the log there.

Or feel free to reassign this bug to kernel but I'm not sure kernel guys have
that hardware available.