Bug 820460 - Sound not working properly on f17
Summary: Sound not working properly on f17
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-10 03:33 UTC by Rodd Clarkson
Modified: 2013-08-01 02:10 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-08-01 02:10:10 UTC
Type: Bug
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2012-05-10 03:33 UTC, Rodd Clarkson
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Description Rodd Clarkson 2012-05-10 03:33:52 UTC
Created attachment 583419 [details]
smolt profile

Description of problem:

Sound wasn't working by default on f17 (it works in f16, but I need to add some lines in /etc/modprobe.d to get it to work with the headphone sockets).

I've added a file called dist-alsa.conf and after restarting sound works using the laptop speakers, or I should say, it worked for a while.  The volume icon appeared in the panel at the top and I could listen to things.

Sadly, the icon has gone and sound no longer plays (after a suspend/resume cycle).

dist-alsa.conf contains:

---------------
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-amic
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
---------------

lspci shows:


$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 18)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 18)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9488
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)
07:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 01)
07:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Memory Stick Host Controller (rev 01)
07:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e852 (rev 01)
07:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd FireWire Host Controller (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 05)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 05)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 05)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 05)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)

Comment 1 Rodd Clarkson 2012-05-10 03:37:49 UTC
Sound works again after logging out and in.  Sound icon appeared in panel at log in screen.

I've tried a suspend and resume and sound didn't stop working, so not convinced that this triggered it.

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2012-09-11 15:37:51 UTC
Is this still causing issues with 3.5.3?

Comment 3 Rodd Clarkson 2012-10-12 02:22:10 UTC
Hmmm, sorry for the slow reply.  Obviously the kernel version has moved on a bit, but I haven't tried for a while.  I'll check it out tonight when I get home.

Comment 4 Rodd Clarkson 2012-10-21 22:56:48 UTC
Not sure about 3.5.3, but it's still a problem with 3.6.1 (and I'm downloading 3.6.2)

If I open the Sound Settings, I don't even see a second item listed in the Hardware tab.  I'm pretty sure I saw this on my last laptop, but that had an ATI video card instead of a Intel.

I'm rambling at this point, what more would you like to know?

Comment 5 Rodd Clarkson 2012-11-20 22:57:41 UTC
okay, I've got some more information.  I've seen this problem in a number of places and it's to do with a short coming in pulseaudio, but still probably needs addressing in f17, f18 until it's fixed.

You can read more information about it here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples

On one system, I've used pavucontrol to set the HDMI output as default and then added the following lines to the bottom of /etc/pulse/default.pa to setup the analog as a secondary source:

### Load analog device
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0
load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined
set-default-sink combined

I can no see both my analog and digital (HDMI) outputs.

Analog audio isn't working, but at least it's appearing.  It's a start and maybe someone with more no how can get this working out of the box.

Comment 6 Justin O'Brien 2013-03-05 20:31:23 UTC
I am also having this problem in f18.

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