Bug 452052 - sound does not work with isapnp sound card
Summary: sound does not work with isapnp sound card
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ConsoleKit
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-19 00:35 UTC by Andre Robatino
Modified: 2012-08-16 22:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 22:05:25 UTC
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Description Andre Robatino 2008-06-19 00:35:16 UTC
Description of problem:
I have an old machine with a CS4235 isapnp sound chip.  The appropriate sound
module is snd-cs4236, and by manually modprobing this it loads successfully. 
However, upon graphical login, the volume control applet is x-ed out, and
clicking on it gives the message

-begin-
The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This
means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed, or that
you don't have a sound card configured.

You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker
icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu.
-end-

Everything worked normally up to at least FC6 (I was unable to install Fedora 7
or 8, so I don't know when this problem started).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gstreamer-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
always

Additional info:
I originally made comments for this problem under bug #178998, not realizing
that this was a separate problem.  Please see the last few comments from that
bug for additional information.

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2008-06-19 17:31:24 UTC
That's unfortunate, but totally not a gstreamer problem.  Blaming the kernel.

Comment 2 Andre Robatino 2008-06-20 03:54:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178998 ***

Comment 3 Andre Robatino 2008-06-20 06:35:12 UTC
I decided to reopen this bug since it is a different (and more severe) problem
from that of bug #178998 - that one is about having to manually configure the
sound card, this one is about sound not working even after that is done.

Comment 4 Andre Robatino 2008-06-20 10:36:01 UTC
I tried the advice given to me at

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1025000

and the volume control applet is no longer x-ed out, but there is still no
actual sound.

Comment 5 Joachim Frieben 2008-08-07 22:13:52 UTC
I have a similar problem with my PR440FX onboard sound device CS423X which is an ISA one, too. After a fresh F9 install, I have to load the sound module snd-cs4236 by hand which is a known issue. Up to F8, this allowed to enable system sounds.

- Opening menu item "System > Preferences > Hardware > Sound" allows to test sound playback (autodetect). No sound but:

  "audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample !
   gconfaudiosink: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument"

- Opening menu item "System > Preferences > Hardware > Volume Control" leads
  to "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."

- Executing "aplay /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav" as "root" or as normal user
  returns

  Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/phone.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian,
    Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
  *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
  aplay: set_params:979: Unable to install hw params:
  ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
  FORMAT:  S16_LE
  SUBFORMAT:  STD
  SAMPLE_BITS: 16
  FRAME_BITS: 32
  CHANNELS: 2
  RATE: 44100
  PERIOD_TIME: 125000
  PERIOD_SIZE: (5512 5513)
  PERIOD_BYTES: 22050
  PERIODS: 4
  BUFFER_TIME: 500000
  BUFFER_SIZE: 22050
  BUFFER_BYTES: 88200
  TICK_TIME: [0 0]

- Executing "alsamixer" either as "root" or as normal user returns:

  No mixer elems found

However, the card well exists:

$ ls /proc/asound
card0/  CS4236B@  hwdep    oss/  seq/    version
cards   devices   modules  pcm   timers

and 'more /proc/asound/cards' yields 
 0 [CS4236B        ]: CS4236B - CS4236B
                      CS4236B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&3

Package information:
alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386
alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386
gstreamer-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19-2.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-2.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-8.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.5.svn20070924.fc9.i386
gstreamer-python-0.10.11-2.fc9.i386
gstreamer-tools-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386

Comment 6 Chuck Ebbert 2008-09-23 03:15:03 UTC
Looks like permissions aren't being set properly on the sound device files.

Can you post the output of 'getfacls /dev/snd/controlC0' ?

Comment 7 Andre Robatino 2008-09-23 03:29:18 UTC
Presumably you mean getfacl.  The box in question hasn't been updated in months, and updating it will take a while, since it's so slow.  Do you anticipate that the updates might change the result of the command, or is it okay to just boot it up and run "getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0" without applying the updates?

Comment 8 Chuck Ebbert 2008-09-23 03:59:52 UTC
Never mind...

Looks like there are two problems:

1. Something (ConsoleKit? PolicyKit?) isn't setting permissions for ISA audio devices.

2. Pulseuadio doesn't support ISA devices.

Neither of these is a kernel bug.  The driver even loads automatically now with kernel 2.6.26.3.

Comment 9 Andre Robatino 2008-09-23 04:06:06 UTC
Are these issues expected to be fixed eventually, or is ISA so old now that it's not considered worth it?  I will update the machine soon so I will be able to provide information more quickly, and also to verify if the driver does in fact load automatically with the latest kernel.

Comment 10 Andre Robatino 2008-09-23 12:31:11 UTC
I fully updated the machine and verified that the snd-cs4236 driver loads automatically with the latest kernel.  If I go to System/Preferences/Hardware/Sound and choose the OSS option under the "Sound Events", "Music and Movies" and "Audio Conferencing" sections, the corresponding "Test" buttons work.  I can't get sound anywhere else, even under the "Sounds" tab in the same window.

Here is the output of the getfacl command in case it helps:

# file: dev/snd/controlC0
# owner: andre
# group: root
user::rw-
group::rw-
other::rw-

Since the machine is updated, if you need any other information, now is a good time to ask.  The problem with Pulseaudio not supporting ISA devices is probably already well known, but the other problem sounds like it's relatively easy to fix.  I would be happy to file a bug under another component if I knew which one and how to describe it.

Comment 11 Andre Robatino 2009-06-07 02:42:09 UTC
Still waiting for someone to tell me which component(s) to reassign this to.  I've done a clean install of F11 Final (A.K.A. RC4) with all updates applied.

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Comment 14 Andre Robatino 2011-09-22 00:47:28 UTC
Any particular reason this is being closed? The only reason I haven't updated the Version to F15 is that the affected machine doesn't have enough memory to clean-install F15, there's no reason to think the bug is fixed there (I'm hoping F16 will be possible to clean-install).

Comment 15 Josh Boyer 2011-09-22 01:35:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> Any particular reason this is being closed? 

It's been open since Fedora Core 9, comment #8 indicates it's not a kernel problem, and the last non-bot comment was over 2 years ago.  It's been marked as WONTFIX because it's clearly obvious we won't be fixing this bug.

Comment 16 Andre Robatino 2011-09-22 01:44:40 UTC
Reopening and reassigning to ConsoleKit (one of the two possibilities mentioned in comment 8).

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