[Bug 6032] sound doesn't work (via 8233/ac97)

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Public bug reported:

Affects: alsa-driver (upstream)
       Severity: Unknown
       Priority: Unknown
         Status: Unknown
Affects: alsa-utils (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Rejected
Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: Wontfix
     Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team
         Status: Confirmed


Description:
Sound is burst/spotty and sometimes stops for good.  I experimented by
rmmod'ing all of the sound modules (there were a lot of them, including,
it seems, both oss and alsa modules), and then modprobing snd-via82xx.
This allows "aplay bong.au" to work, but when I run "ogg123 last\
call.ogg" then it goes back into burst/spotty/silent mode.

Whenever I modprobe snd-via82xx (after first rmmodding everything), my
syslog gets this:

Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904611] via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904619]          Please try dxs_support=5 option
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904623]          and report if it works on your machine.
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904626]          For more details, read ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904680] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64

aplay -l says this:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 4/4
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lspci says:

0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

uname -a says:

Linux newcomputer 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Fri Nov 18 11:51:02 UTC 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
Public bug reported:

Affects: alsa-driver (upstream)
       Severity: Unknown
       Priority: Unknown
         Status: Unknown
Affects: alsa-utils (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Rejected
Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: Wontfix
     Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team
         Status: Confirmed


Description:
Sound is burst/spotty and sometimes stops for good.  I experimented by
rmmod'ing all of the sound modules (there were a lot of them, including,
it seems, both oss and alsa modules), and then modprobing snd-via82xx.
This allows "aplay bong.au" to work, but when I run "ogg123 last\
call.ogg" then it goes back into burst/spotty/silent mode.

Whenever I modprobe snd-via82xx (after first rmmodding everything), my
syslog gets this:

Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904611] via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904619]          Please try dxs_support=5 option
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904623]          and report if it works on your machine.
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904626]          For more details, read ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Dec 21 20:00:44 localhost kernel: [ 1127.904680] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64

aplay -l says this:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 4/4
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lspci says:

0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

uname -a says:

Linux newcomputer 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Fri Nov 18 11:51:02 UTC 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
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sound doesn't work (via 8233/ac97)
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6032