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cpcnw2

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Registered: 2009-12-01

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[SOLVED] Recent update kills sound!

Hi All,

Doing a "pacman -Syu" this morning has killed sound!

I have the following info ; Onboard sound disabled in BIOS, Off board sound in PCI slot

## lspci -nn | grep -i audio
01:06.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] [1013:6003] (rev 01)
02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0bea] (rev a1)

# lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_cs46xx          66990   0
snd_ac97_codec      114256  1   snd_cs46xx
snd_rawmidi         19190   1   snd_cs46xx
snd_hda_codec_hdmi  36716   4
snd_seq_device      5180    1   snd_rawmidi
snd_hda_intel       38728   0
snd_hda_codec       101816  2   snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep           6396    1   snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm             81607   5   snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_cs46xx
snd_timer           19038   1   snd_pcm
snd                 60086   10  snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_cs46xx

Contents of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd slots=snd_cs46xx, snd_hda_intel
options snd_cs46xx index=0 model=auto vid=1013 pid=6003
options snd_hda_intel index=-2

# cat /proc/asound/cards
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xdef7c000 irq 19

So the offboard card isnt listed....

# speaker-test -c 2

speaker-test 1.0.27.2
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4727:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

# alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

Had great sound output up until this mornings update!

Any help appreciated!

Last edited by cpcnw2 (2014-05-09 08:51:58)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Recent update kills sound!

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

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emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Recent update kills sound!

Well, it appears your card no longer uses the snd-cs46xx module, even though it is loaded.
What does dmesg say? Does reloading the module help? If not try downgrading alsa-lib, you probably found a bug, either in alsa or kernel, if so please report it.

By the way: It is unnecessary to use both, slots and indexes, in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.

cpcnw2

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Registered: 2009-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Recent update kills sound!

Nice pointer. dmesg say

[   10.011657] snd_cs46xx: unknown parameter 'model' ignored
[   10.011670] snd_cs46xx: unknown parameter 'vid' ignored
[   10.011674] snd_cs46xx: unknown parameter 'pid' ignored
[   11.649096] firmware load error [cwc4630]
[   11.650279] snd_cs46xx: probe of 0000:01:06.0 failed with error -2

Can I get back to previous firmware?

Is this a bug? How to report a bug?

Last edited by cpcnw2 (2014-05-08 22:24:44)

emeres

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Re: [SOLVED] Recent update kills sound!

This is probably related to a licence issue(firmware loader patch was supposed to get into kernel 3.14). If you can, try downgrading your kernel to 3.13 or a previous working sub-version of 3.14 for now. I do not see anything related in lib-firmware package. Nor did I find anything interesting and recent (issue goes way back) on this subject. Disable that /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf or reload cs46xx manually without options. Otherwise contact alsa-user mailing list.

cpcnw2

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Re: [SOLVED] Recent update kills sound!

Solution here :-

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10750