Audio problem - And I am gobmacked

[p2bc]

Let me begin by saying, I have file a bug report with Launchpad, but to this day, nothing has been resolved.

I have a Toshiba Satellite P200-RT2 Laptop. I installed Gutsy beta 4 (Kernel 2.6.22-10) on to it back in late September from a Live CD. Everything work like a charm including the sound, so I proceeded to install it onto my hard drive. A few weeks later, the official release became available so I preceded to upgrade through "apt-get". The kernel was updated to 2.6.22-12, at which point I lost all sound. In its place I got a incessant beeping sound and nothing else. I figured something got mixed up and conflicting, but would fixed with the next upgrade. A few weeks later another upgrade became available, Kernel 2.6.22-13. I thought for sure this would fix my woes. When it did not, I filed the bug report as mention, actually I added to an existing one that was there. I was encouraged that someone else was having the same problem as I was. I also found on a few site that gave advice "If your are having problems with your audio...", basically they had you download the latest drivers for the audio script the all Linux Distros use. I followed it to the letter. I did get more features on my KMix and inputs with more controls, but it did not actual help the audio problem. By this time there was another update, this time Kernel 2.6.22-14. This improved my situation slightly. Now I could hear the sound of the audio file or video file, but the beeping sound was there as well. As naive as it me seem now looking back on things, I thought that next update would fix my problems for sure, which has not happened as such. What I mean is, there has not been much progress in Gutsy since, which I am sure is due to the fact Hardy is due to come out soon, but the strangest thing happen recently which is prompting me to write this post. I installed the new version of KDE 4.01, and using the same Kernel configuration, basically just logging in with KDE 4 verse 3 the audio works beautifully. If I log out and log back in with KDE 3, the beeping is back. Which is a problem because I cannot stand KDE 4 as it is now.

I am not a complete newbe but I cannot figure this one out on my own, so what ever help anyone can offer would be great.

I will post the lsmod, lspci, and the dmesg (if it can fit in a post) so everyone can see for themselves.


Thanks in advance, sincerely.

[p2bc]

Re: Audio problem - And I am gobmacked

lsmod:

Module         Size Used by
michael_mic       3584 4
arc4          2944 4
ecb           4608 4
blkcipher        7556 1 ecb
ieee80211_crypt_tkip  11776 2
af_packet       24840 2
binfmt_misc      12936 1
rfcomm         42136 2
l2cap         26240 11 rfcomm
bluetooth       57060 4 rfcomm,l2cap
nfsd         220912 13
exportfs        7040 1 nfsd
lockd         67592 2 nfsd
sunrpc        172412 8 nfsd,lockd
i915          25856 2
drm          83348 3 i915
ppdev         10244 0
acpi_cpufreq      10568 1
cpufreq_userspace    5280 0
cpufreq_stats      7232 0
cpufreq_powersave    2688 0
cpufreq_ondemand    9612 0
freq_table       5792 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative   8072 0
video         18060 0
sbs          19592 0
button         8976 0
dock          10656 0
battery        11012 0
container        5504 0
ac           6148 0
aes_i586        34304 0
dm_crypt        14984 0
dm_mod         58816 1 dm_crypt
sbp2          24072 0
parport_pc       37412 0
lp           12580 0
parport        37448 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
snd_hda_intel     293792 1
snd_pcm_oss      43008 0
snd_mixer_oss     17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm        80644 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc     11656 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep       10628 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_oss      35328 0
uvcvideo        48644 0
pcmcia         41388 0
compat_ioctl32     2304 1 uvcvideo
videodev        29312 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat      15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_seq_midi_event   8704 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq        54256 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer       24580 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
v4l2_common      18432 2 uvcvideo,videodev
xpad          9988 0
snd_seq_device     9740 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
ipw3945        119840 1
sdhci         18828 0
psmouse        39952 0
yenta_socket      27532 1
rsrc_nonstatic     14080 1 yenta_socket
ieee80211       35656 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt     7040 2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211
ipv6         273892 12
mmc_core        28420 1 sdhci
tifm_7xx1        8576 0
tifm_core       11268 1 tifm_7xx1
pcmcia_core      40980 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
serio_raw        8068 0
iTCO_wdt        11940 0
iTCO_vendor_support   4868 1 iTCO_wdt
shpchp         34580 0
pci_hotplug      32704 1 shpchp
snd          56708 11 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
intel_agp       25620 1
agpgart        35016 3 drm,intel_agp
soundcore        8800 1 snd
joydev         11328 0
evdev         11136 6
ext2          67208 1
mbcache         9732 1 ext2
usbhid         29536 0
hid          28928 1 usbhid
sg           36764 0
sr_mod         17828 0
cdrom         37536 1 sr_mod
sd_mod         30336 2
ata_piix        17540 1
ohci1394        36528 0
ieee1394        96312 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ata_generic       8452 0
libata        125168 2 ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod       147084 5 sbp2,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
r8169         32260 0
ehci_hcd        36492 0
uhci_hcd        26640 0
usbcore        138632 6 uvcvideo,xpad,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal        14344 0
processor       32072 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan           5764 0
fuse          47124 1
apparmor        40728 0
commoncap        8320 1 apparmor

[p2bc]

Re: Audio problem - And I am gobmacked

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
06:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
06:04.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

[dibl]

Re: Audio problem - And I am gobmacked

This is the best sound troubleshooting guide I know of:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

The Intel HDA can be problematic -- my Intel motherboard shows the same 82801G (ICH7) system as yours, and yet *buntus rarely have any problem with it. I dunno ..... :P

[p2bc]

Re: Audio problem - And I am gobmacked

Thanks, I will give a try.

Of course when I said;

I also found on a few site that gave advice "If your are having problems with your audio...", basically they had you download the latest drivers for the audio script the all Linux Distros use.

Which I mean was ALSA, which he mentions in the failure of Step 4, which of course where I ended up. So I don't know if it will work. But I will keep you posted.

Thanks

[p2bc]

Re: Audio problem - And I am gobmacked

Ok, in short it did not change anything. I of course kept on hitting failure, which lead me to remove and re-install ALSA and compile the drivers for my HAD-Intel. After all that I am back to where I started. I have sound, I can hear audio but over top of the sound is a VERY loud beeping.

Did I forget to mention that it is VERY freaken loud. I forgot how loud until I turn the speakers back on. I am still cleaning up the pools of blood from my ears. The dog can't stop howling. My wife came running from the other side of the house think the fire smoke detector was going off.

Anyways you get my point, it is loud.