From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugtrack@alsa-project.org Subject: [ALSA - driver 0000543]: Noisy sound, broken mixer with via8235 (driver regression) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040926002711.72A3825018@server.perex-int.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail.perex.cz (gate.perex.cz [82.113.61.162]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id C7CD0296 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:27:11 +0200 (MEST) Received: from server.perex-int.cz (server.perex-int.cz [192.168.100.2]) by gate.perex-int.cz (Perex's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 823F425D20 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:27:11 +0200 (MEST) Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org A BUGNOTE has been added to this bug. ====================================================================== https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000543 ====================================================================== Reported By: obsidian Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: ALSA - driver Bug ID: 543 Category: PCI - via82xx Reproducibility: always Severity: major Priority: normal Status: new Distribution: Debian Sarge Kernel Version: 2.6.8-1-k7 ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 09-25-2004 23:15 CEST Last Modified: 09-26-2004 02:27 CEST ====================================================================== Summary: Noisy sound, broken mixer with via8235 (driver regression) Description: Sound is "shimmery" or "staticky" - noticeably bad. Mixer "master volume" has no effect. "PCM volume" cannot be adjusted. "DXS https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000001" volume has an effect but not "correct" - i.e. zero != silent. I do get the message (at boot): via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate. Please try dxs_support=1 or dxs_support=4 option and report if it works on your machine. This is a big prob. on this particular machine, which is supposed to connect to the stereo and play mp3s, among other things. Sound works normally outside Linux, and in Linux 2.4 with some Alsa 0.9.*. But with Linux 2.6 and alsa 1.0.5/6, bleah. I have been googling and troubleshooting all day. Here's what I've already tried: dxs_support=1, 2, 3 and 4 This makes zero difference, so I thought I might be doing it wrong; I tried it in modprobe.conf, modprobe.d/sound, and manually as an argument to modprobe, i.e. "modprobe snd-via82xx dxs_support=1", also with both rmmod'ing all alsa-related modules and rebooting altogether. Is there any way to tell if a dxs_support or other argument has been acted on? It really felt like they were all ignored. I could never get that original message to happen anytime but at boot, not matter what I did. modprobe -v did show an "insmod" line with the parameter(s) on it, though. ac97_quirk=0,1,2,3,4 No effect. Various kernel boot parameters, both alone and in combination with the above: noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, and pci=noacpi. No effect. (BTW, I am currently running with all 4.) Frustrating, because it seemed from searching a great many people have the exact same problem I do, but none of the many, varying "worked for me" answers have helped me. I'm a developer, somewhat kernel-savvy, and at your disposal. What do we try first? ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- obsidian - 09-26-2004 01:09 CEST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Still no solution, but there are new details. By loading snd-via82xx from /etc/modules, and putting the driver options on the line in that file, I was finally able to get them to take effect (i.e. items available in the mixer would change, 48k message wouldn't display, etc). I ran through the tests again (rebooting every time) with different values of dxs_settings and ac97_quirk. ac97_quirk seemed to have no effect anyway. By varying dxs_settings I observed dxs volume controls disappearing from alsamixer with some values. Otherwise everything was the same ("shimmery" sound, master volume ignored, etc) and so this only had the effect of making it impossible to influence the volume altogether. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- obsidian - 09-26-2004 01:24 CEST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One more thing: I observed this in alsamixer. Surprised it hasn't popped up in too many other places, but I noticed that the chip (CM9739) correlates exactly with the same mixer issues I'm having: Card: VIA 8235 Chip: C-Media Electronics CMI9739 See: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10120.html This doesn't overlap with sound quality issues, however. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- obsidian - 09-26-2004 02:27 CEST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I upgraded to the current BIOS. No effect. Bug History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 09-25-04 23:15 obsidian New Bug 09-25-04 23:15 obsidian Distribution => Debian Sarge 09-25-04 23:15 obsidian Kernel Version => 2.6.8-1-k7 09-26-04 01:09 obsidian Bugnote Added: 0001913 09-26-04 01:24 obsidian Bugnote Added: 0001914 09-26-04 02:27 obsidian Bugnote Added: 0001915 ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php