Description of problem: No audio from integrated speakers on aluminium imac 20" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Audio hardware Intel IHC8 family plus ALC882/885 codecs Processor: Intel core duo How reproducible: Try to play any sound leaving the external speaker connector unplugged Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from scratch FC8 (full dvd/iso image) with pulseudio 2. Run the system-config-utility and apply the changes 3. Try to play a sound Actual results: Leaving the jack unplugged should unmute the integrated speakers, letting thus sound flow trough them Expected results: No audio. Sound is only (faintly) audible if ypu connect some amplified external speakers. Additional info: Already searched forums. Nothing. Seems like if i were the only one to have this problem. I also changed the /etc/asaound.conf file according to the "perfect configuration" guide from the Pulse site but nothing. According to what system-config-soundcard displays, the hardware is detected correctly. I get no error message, neither from dmesg, nor from /var/log/messages. The only error-like message i get is from MPlayer which complains abount beeing unable to find a PC device if i don't change his settings to look for pulse instead of alsa as audiosupport. To tell the truth i've been able to get sound from the speakers only once. I had just installed Fc8, without any sound coming from the speakers. Then i tried to plug and unplug a couple times an amplified external speaker system, and sound suddenly came out from the INTEGRATED speakers. No way to get sound from the external speakers. After that, for other reasons, i reinstalled fedora from scratch, but this time every attempt to get sound trough the internal speakers has been vain. It looks like if the driver stores some information somewhere about which speaker pair is enabled, but there is no way through the NORMAL user interface to modify this information. Furthermore, the hardware should mute/unmute the speakers according to the external connector status. The driver, on contrary, seems to prevent this. Actually the problem doesn't seem to be only of Pulseaudio since any combination of audio server in KDE or Gnome (OSS, Alsa, Enlightened, etc.) seems to produce the same effect. Could it be an alsa driver problem (snd-hda-intel)? Thank you for the help.
Hallo Mr Poetter. I have some more information i forgot to add at the time of writing this bug report. Actually, i upgraded the kernel from 2.6.23.1-42, which ships by default, to 2.6.23.8-63 because the former kernel release doesn't support my Radeon HD2600 graphic adapter. Thus far, this is the only change made in comparison with a standard installation. Furthermore, i noticed that some settings to the mixer are not taken into account if made from within KDE (i have installed both Gnome and KDE). In particular, the SPDIF out stays lit regardless of the sate of the control in the KDE mixer's windows. The switch, on the contrary, can be toggled if handled with the Gnome Applet. I daon't know if this may help... Thank you again
Some more information about this Bug. It seems to be something more related to the alsa driver then other. Actually i upgraded the kernel from 2.6.23.8-63 to 2.6.23.14-107, which made my /etc/asound.conf look now like this: #Generated by system-config-soundcard #If you edit this file, don't run system-config-soundcard, #all your changes here could be lost. #HWCONF #DEV 0 pcm.!default { type plug slave { pcm "hw:0,0" }} ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } instead of the old-style one, and added the option "model=imac24" to the snd-hda-intel module in /etc/modprobe.conf (like this: ... options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=imac24 ... ), being able now to get some sound from the internal speakers. No way, on the contrary, to get some sound from the external speakers (the module's jack detection doesn't seem to work). Actually, without the "model=imac24" option i can't get any sound at all Also the mixer doesn't seem to work very well. There is a lot of stuff (controls) missing: no cd volume control, no wave volume control, no line volume control,... By the way! I'm also experiencing, since the kernel upgrade the "arts: cpu overload. Aborting!" bug. This happens more or less randomly, but more often short after the login (with the kde splash sound enabled). I hope this helps... Best regards Raffaele Candeliere
Please user alsamixer -c0 and play around with your mixer settigns. Use aplay -D hw:0 < /dev/urandom to generate a test sound. This doesn't appear to be a PA issue. Reassigning to kernel.
Please see following patch: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git-commits-head/2008/7/14/2478534 This should help at least to have the correct module-options automagically: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=imac24 These options (as Raffaele mentioned earlier) do help indeed so far, but the soundquality is bad. And if you want to use the internal microphone, you have to play around with kernel-hacks or strange workarounds like:http://www.jasonparekh.com/linux-on-macbook#microphone or mine: first try model=mbp3 (which means macbook pro 3) and you will be able to activate microphone levels in kmix. Then log out KDE and reboot with reverting model=imac24 => If you're lucky you can now test microphone with ekiga o.e. Other workarounds are like: first define mic als input source 1 in kmix, then switch to front-mic and then back again... You see, this is getting a little bit esoteric now ;-) I myself will wait for 2.6.26 or 27 or compile my own kernel + alsa 1.0.16 in order to test the new features and the microphone.
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I'd say close it, since the sound is working since about 2.6.25 (at medium quality which is the same as in OSX due to the low qualiti speakers ;-)
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