Audio trouble with Intel HD Driver

[arc-pl]

Hi,
I am having some trouble with audio with PCLinux system (pclinuxos-openbox-bonsai-2010.11.iso). After installation I noticed that I did not have audio so I installed some alsa packages (alsaconf, alsa-utils,alsamixer). Checked that the snd_hda_intel was the selected one in the "Control Center", and also checked that the volume was not muted. Still I cannot hear a sound.
The only way I find to enable audio is run "alsactl init", but I got to do it every time I start the computer and the sound (even with the volume control at 100% and the mixer bars at top) is a tad low. Any ideas of how I could get the sound to work properly?

Some notes about the audio card:

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>lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO

snd_hda_intel   : Intel Corporation|82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (vendor:8086 device:293e subv:1028 subd:02aa) (rev: 03)


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>grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf

alias sound-slot-0 snd_hda_intel

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>lsmod |grep snd_hda_intel

snd_hda_intel          19013  1
snd_hda_codec          66319  2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                58856  4 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46351  16 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm


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>/sbin/chkconfig --list sound

sound          0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off 7:off

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>/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa

alsa            0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off 7:off
It looks to me as the drivers are present and loaded, so I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Or why the audio settings do not stick between reboots.

Thanks for your help.

[MerReady]

Wow I was just going to post the same problem with my Asus laptop using the same Intel HD sound driver. If I load the 2.6.33.7 kernel I have no problems with sound. If I load the 2.6.38.4 kernel I get no sound. So to me it looks like its directly related to the 2.6.38.4 kernel.

On a side note, I downloaded The Full Monty iso and ran it. Same problem.

[Dragynn]

Wow I was just going to post the same problem with my Asus laptop using the same Intel HD sound driver. If I load the 2.6.33.7 kernel I have no problems with sound. If I load the 2.6.38.4 kernel I get no sound. So to me it looks like its directly related to the 2.6.38.4 kernel.

On a side note, I downloaded The Full Monty iso and ran it. Same problem.

Ditto here, same problem.

[scoundrel]

just thought I'd throw it out here .. has any of you tried alsaconf ??

[MerReady]

just thought I'd throw it out here .. has any of you tried alsaconf ??

Yes sir I did. I even just tried it again and double checked my mixer settings and still no sound.

[Dragynn]

just thought I'd throw it out here .. has any of you tried alsaconf ??

About 20 times. "connection refused". amixer won't even pretend to start and do something. Just updated fully, no joy. Just installed new kernel 2.6.38.5, same thing, no sound. Tried every other fix posted on this forum too, no luck. Booting back into 2.6.33.7 makes everything work just fine. Looks like i'm stuck with that kernel on that machine...newest one I have too.

[MerReady]

Just upgraded to 2.6.38.5. Still no joy!

[scoundrel]

try this and then run alsaconf after reboot

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,88395.msg744542.html#msg744542

[MerReady]

try this and then run alsaconf after reboot

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,88395.msg744542.html#msg744542

Thanks for the help. Deleting ~/.kde4/share/config/kmixrc and running alsaconf after reboot didn't work. Tried it a couple of times.

[arc-pl]

Hi,
I tried "alsaconf" too, but still no luck: I get sound once alsaconf has fineshed configuring the card, but when I reboot I find once again that the sound is gone. I am using the kernel  "2.6.33.7".
Any other ideas of what may be amiss with my configuration?

[luikki]

go to configure your desktop / hardware / multimedia / phonon, select one of the devices (i presume you have mora than one device on the list) and click test. if you get sound click preference and place that device as first one on the list.
good luck.

[MerReady]

go to configure your desktop / hardware / multimedia / phonon, select one of the devices (i presume you have mora than one device on the list) and click test. if you get sound click preference and place that device as first one on the list.
good luck.

I only have one device listed: HDA ATI SB (ALC660-VD Analog)

I clicked on it which highligted it and then clicked the test button. Still no sound.

[luikki]

have you configured / select channels in kmixer?

[MerReady]

have you configured / select channels in kmixer?

Yes I have done that too. This problem is diffidently related to the 2.6.38 kernel. I did some Google searching at work and other people are having the same problem with other distro's using the 2.6.38 kernel. I didn't find an answer. :{

[arc-pl]

have you configured / select channels in kmixer?

Yes I have done that too. This problem is diffidently related to the 2.6.38 kernel. I did some Google searching at work and other people are having the same problem with other distro's using the 2.6.38 kernel. I didn't find an answer. :{

Seems like my trouble is a bit different; kernel differences apart I can get the sound to work, but it disappears every time I reboot the machine, and therefore I got to reconfigure the card again and again. In the end this seems to have solved the problem for me:

1. run 'alsactl store' after configuring mycard.
2. add 'alsactl restore' to '/etc/rc.local'