Sound won't work on first time install (Intel IHC9 chipset)

mblackman · 2011-05-10 05:25:44

I have recently installed Arch on my computer for the first time, and I have had no audio. I have tried countless work around with alsa and pulse, but I am have no luck.

lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
Memory behind bridge: d0000000-d2ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000cfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 60e0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 60c0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at d9304c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
Memory at d9300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: d8200000-d92fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d3000000-00000000d40fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: d7100000-d81fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d4100000-00000000d50fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: d6100000-d70fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d5100000-00000000d60fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 60a0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 6080 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 6060 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 6040 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at d9304800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
I/O ports at 6108 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6114 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6100 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6110 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6020 [size=32]
Memory at d9304000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at d9305000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 6000 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300M GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia, nvidiafb
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1505
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at d8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at d3000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at d3020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
Memory at d7100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn

Thank you

ewaller · 2011-05-10 06:00:55

Lets start with a quick sanity check. Could you post the output of cat /proc/asound/cards ??

Did you run alsaconf as root? Did it find your card or did it offer to scan for legacy ISA boards?

mblackman · 2011-05-10 14:19:04

cat /proc/asound/cards

1 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xd9300000 irq 46

And I did run alsaconf and it tried to find legacy drivers, but did not find any.

ewaller · 2011-05-10 14:41:27

Good Morning.

Okay, you are fighting a bug in alsaconf. Somehow, some Intel high def audio cards are not found by the utility. We will patch its data base to add your devices vendor and product ID, but first we need to find out what they are. From your lspci, Your audio device is on the PCI bus as defined by 00:1b.0. But we need the numeric definition rather than the human readable one. Could you post the output of:
lspci -n | grep 00:1b.0

I'll then be able to tell you how to patch /var/tmp/alsaconf.cards

mblackman · 2011-05-10 14:46:58

lspci -n | grep 00:1b.0

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 03)

ewaller · 2011-05-10 14:54:32

Add the line
PCI: 0x8086=0x293e
to the file /var/tmp/alsaconf.cards, and then re-run alsaconf.
(Note that /var/tmp/alsaconf.cards only exists if you have previously tried to run alsaconf)

lilsirecho · 2011-05-10 15:10:06

Perhaps you need to open up the volume on speakers...select ..F5.... while in alsamixer and open the volume on the speakers.

Worked for me................

mblackman · 2011-05-10 15:16:57

I tried that out and alsa still did not find any audio cards.

ewaller · 2011-05-10 15:32:34

My bad -- I think I forgot one detail

In that file, find the line that says snd-hda-intel.o
Move the line I gave you to the section just after that line and before the next line that ends with .o. There should be other lines in this section that contain 0x8086= as well

mblackman · 2011-05-10 17:49:24

That did help alsa find my video card and set it up, but I feel I might have caused another problem somewhere else in my trouble shooting that I wonder if you might be able to help me out with

ewaller · 2011-05-10 18:04:11

mblackman wrote:

That did help alsa find my video card and set it up, but I feel I might have caused another problem somewhere else in my trouble shooting that I wonder if you might be able to help me out with

Been there, done that.

What is doing now? Can you run amixer and un-mute as suggested by lilsirecho ?
Is your user part of the audio group ?

How have you tried generating audio ?

mblackman · 2011-05-11 07:27:18

I did some work and got my sound working thanks to your help. Thank you very much +1 karma

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#1 2011-05-10 05:25:44

Sound won't work on first time install (Intel IHC9 chipset)

#2 2011-05-10 06:00:55

Re: Sound won't work on first time install (Intel IHC9 chipset)

#3 2011-05-10 14:19:04

Re: Sound won't work on first time install (Intel IHC9 chipset)

#4 2011-05-10 14:41:27

Re: Sound won't work on first time install (Intel IHC9 chipset)

#5 2011-05-10 14:46:58

Re: Sound won't work on first time install (Intel IHC9 chipset)

#6 2011-05-10 14:54:32

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#9 2011-05-10 15:32:34

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#10 2011-05-10 17:49:24

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