Re: against which package to report this regression bug: sound does not work in lenny, but work in etch on notebook toshiba satellite a30
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:49 +0200, Sergey Spiridonov wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have very strange problem with sound. Sound does not work in Debian
> Lenny, but works in Debian Etch. Hardware is Toshiba Satellite a30
> (lspci in attachment), with sound card ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97
> Audio Controller.
>
> Often the very first time I start playing music after reboot on Debian
> Lenny, sound works for certain period of time. Second time xfmedia
> hangs, mplayer prints out following in loop:
>
> [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:405:(snd_pcm_hw_hwsync)
> SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HWSYNC failed: Broken pipe
>
> This does not happen in Debian Etch.
>
> My first idea was that this is kernel problem. During boot I got
> following suspicious messages (full dmesg is in attachment):
>
> MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> ..trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
> ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
> [snip]
> atiixp: codec reset timeout
> atiixp-modem: no codec available
>
> After some experimenting with kernel boot options, I found out that
> sound works with option "acpi=off". Other options, like noapic,
> acpi={noirq,strict,force}, pci=noacpi, nolapic_timer do not help.
>
> Using acpi=off is not a very nice solution, because it switches off
> other usefull for notebook features.
>
> Suspicious kernel messages mentioned above, appear also with option
> "acpi=off".
>
> Installing kernel 2.6.29 (from lenny-backports) does not help.
> Additionaly 2.6.29 locks up after some time.
>
> I installed Debian Etch on separate partition and there sound works
> without any problem. It work with both 2.6.18 and 2.6.24.
>
> So, I installed kernel 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 from Etch in to the Debian
> Lenny (just added etch into sources.list and installed). And this does
> not help! I got same sound problems in Debian Lenny with kernels 2.6.18
> and 2.6.24 from Etch!
>
> So, it looks like it is not a kernel problem. But I do not know where to
> look for a problem now and I do not know against which package should I
> report this regression bug.
>
> Please put me on CC when you reply to this message.
what's the result of aplay -l ? it will tell you the chipset.
inspect /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configurations.txt.gz and
see if the chipset is supported there. next you must put
"model=<laptop-model>" in the config file.
edit /etc/modprobe.d/sound:
options <your-sound-module> model=<toshiba>
a friend have same problem before (toshiba laptop) but with ATI IXP 4x0
(chipset ALC861). but finally sound is working again.
hope this would be a clue for you.
and we've found this link is usefull:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
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Best Regards,
Rustam
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