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LyCC

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 155

[SOLVED] Realtek alc889A stoped working after update 3.6.4

After today's update to kernel 3.6.4 my audio stoped working, totally, no sound at all. KDE mixer has grayed out the device.
It's a gigabyte motherboard (ga-p35-ds3) with Realtek ALC889A.

I didn't have any luck with alsa init, number of reboots, nothing ...

alsactl init
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC889A" "HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101" "0x1458" "0xa002"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

from logs what i could find that may be relevant is:
boot log:

Tue Oct 16 00:15:08 2012: :: Restoring ALSA Levels    [BUSY] Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC889A" "HDA:10
ec0885,1458a002,00100101" "0x1458" "0xa002"
Tue Oct 16 00:15:08 2012: Hardware is initialized using a generic method
Tue Oct 16 00:15:08 2012:    [FAIL]

xorg:

[  1451.380] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel Line Out CLFE (/dev/input/event10)
[  1451.380] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[  1451.380] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[  1451.380] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel Line Out Surround (/dev/input/event11)
...

System is up to date, no pulseaudo, no systemd (yet).
Linux ArchPC 3.6.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 09:49:00 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Please help ...

Dear Arch, seriously WTF ?? i had nothing to do with no sound, so i finally took my time and switched to systemd, rebooted and the sound is miraculously working without systemd, end of life allready?
Case closed.

Last edited by LyCC (2012-10-31 20:56:00)

neves

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Registered: 2011-08-12

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Realtek alc889A stoped working after update 3.6.4

This problem is not solved at all.

I'm in the same situation, since kernel 3.6.4 (and now using 3.6.6-1-ARCH), I have no sound at all. KDE mixer has grayed out the device.

Tue Nov  6 20:45:02 2012: Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "SigmaTel STAC9274D" "HDA:83847621,80860419,00100201" "0x8086" "0x0419"
Tue Nov  6 20:45:02 2012: Hardware is initialized using a generic method

The sound was working very well before updating the kernel to 3.6.4. I'm using ALSA, without PulseAudio.

There is no way I can use systemd at the moment because of a RAID problem (systemd refuses to boot my computer if I do not comment the raid entry in /etc/fstab...)

Any suggestion?

EDIT : I finally use to boot my system with systemd, and I have sound too. But compelling people to use systemd to have sound is not an appropriate solution.

Last edited by neves (2012-11-07 01:27:15)