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lefthaha

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Registered: 2011-05-09

Posts: 8

Sound issue after upgrade

* Environment

Kernel: 3.1.4-1
DM: XFCE 4.8
Sound card: ICE1724
Using alsa as default sound output

* Issue: after system upgrade, unable to play any sound

speaker-test -c 2: no sound

mplayer: no sound, and mplayer just hang there, didn't start play (tried ao=alsa)
smplayer: report mplayer crash

vlc: I can scroll playback bar, but still no sound, and no output in static information

* Tried solution

reinstall alsa-util, alsa-libs, mplayer
use alsaconf to set soundcard
unmute alsamixer
instal pulseaudio-alsa, also specified ao=pulse in mplayer or vlc
downgrade linux to 3.1.1-1, 3.1-4

but none of them fix the problem

* Supecteded package: kernel
** Live USB works normal
   I have a live USB installed Arch linux with kernel 3.0.7 and Gnome 3,
   use pulseaudio as default sound output, everything works fine, and the
   system info almost identical with what I list below

** Busybox (?) works normal
   When checking if this is a hardware issue, I accidently reset BIOS time,
   when I boot into Arch, recieve some error message like "last mount time in
   the future, enter admin password to fix or Ctrl-D to continue" ( is this
   envionment in busybox ? )  After I enter the admin pwd, login as root,
   remount hd, then I test mplayer and speaker-test, both work normal,
   but after reboot, the issue cames back

* some system information FYI

aplay -l

 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 0: ICE1724 [ICE1724]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 1: ICE1724 IEC958 [ICE1724 IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lsmod | grep snd

snd_ice1724            94814  4 
snd_rawmidi            15014  1 snd_ice1724
snd_seq_device          4284  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx      1984  1 snd_ice1724
snd_ac97_codec         90085  1 snd_ice1724
ac97_bus                 842  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_ak4xxx_adda         7689  2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_ak4114              6129  1 snd_ice1724
snd_pt2258              2552  1 snd_ice1724
snd_i2c                 3069  2 snd_ice1724,snd_pt2258
snd_ak4113              5916  1 snd_ice1724
snd_pcm                60207  5 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4114,snd_ak4113
snd_timer              15438  2 snd_pcm
snd                    43817  17 snd_ice1724,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_ak4114,snd_pt2258,snd_i2c,snd_ak4113,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               5018  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          5869  1 snd_pcm

ll /dev/snd

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       60 Dec  8 22:47 by-path
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Dec  8 22:47 controlC0
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Dec  8 22:47 midiC0D0
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Dec  8 23:16 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Dec  9 12:08 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Dec  8 22:48 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---T  1 root audio 116,  1 Dec  8 22:47 seq
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec  8 22:47 timer

cat /proc/asound/cards

 0 [ICE1724        ]: ICE1724 - ICEnsemble ICE1724
                      ICEnsemble ICE1724 at 0xd000, irq 17

Because of virtualbox-modules dep, haven't tried to downgrade to linux 3.0.7 yet

Does anyone encounter some issue like this, is it related to kernel or something else ?
that upgrade also upgrade lots of packages like lame, libmatroska, ffmpeg ......
also tried to downgrade these packages, but still unable to fix the sound issue

lefthaha

Member

Registered: 2011-05-09

Posts: 8

Re: Sound issue after upgrade

Upgrade kernel to 3.1.5 still not fix the sound issue

On 12/14, I upgraded    imagemagick, pcre, texinfo, virtualbox-modules, wxgtk with `pacman -Syu`,
after reboot, the sound comes back, everything works fine just like before

But on 12/16, I lost the sound again, only found these line in kernel.org

Dec 16 09:28:29 localhost kernel: [75508.452468] ice1724: Too long irq loop, status = 0xff
Dec 16 09:28:29 localhost kernel: [75508.452468] ice1724: Disabling MPU_TX

no matter how I tried to reproduce the upgrade on 12/14, still unable to fix the
issue, and those warning didn't show up again, I also boot into live USB to check
if this is hardware problem, but sound works normal in live USB

it's so weird...