4 Jul
2013
4 Jul
'13
8:24 a.m.
For a couple of weeks now, it tries to find audio device(s), times out
after about 30 seconds and kills the search process, and the system
comes up with no audio whatever.
aplay -l reports no soundcards found.
I can modprobe snd-usb-audio and the USB card works. USB card works on
other machines without any gyrations at all.
I can modprobe snd-intel8x0 and ALSA then sees the onboard Intel sound.
lsusb shows the sound card even when ALSA doesn't. lspci shows the
onboard sound device.
Kernel is 32-bit non-RT 3.7.5. alsa-base was updated to 1.0.25.
There were no hardware changes. This is running on my temporary
replacement very-old (12+ years old) Toshiba laptop. (The 9-year-old
Toshiba laptop is dead. With grace and a declining credit card balance,
a new laptop could arrive the end of this month!)
Debian Sid has been running very successfully on this machine for a long
while.
I've set up a basic script I can run to load the two drivers, but they
still refuse to load on bootup.
Clues?
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4 Jul
4 Jul
10:27 a.m.
david wrote:
For a couple of weeks now, it tries to find audio
device(s), times out
after about 30 seconds and kills the search process, and the system
comes up with no audio whatever.
[...]
I've set up a basic script I can run to load the two drivers, but they
still refuse to load on bootup.
What do you mean with "refuse"? Any rrror messages? In the system log?
Regards,
Clemens
11:48 a.m.
On 07/03/2013 10:27 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
david wrote:
According to syslog, it's finds and sets up both the USB device and the
Intel snd_intel8x0 just fine. No errors there. OK, so I guess they're
loading. But ALSA still insists there are no soundcards. Does ALSA have
a log somewhere?
If I watch the screen during bootup, it's udev timing out when trying to
do something with the USB controller the USB card is connected to. The
udev error doesn't appear in dmesg or any logs.
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For a couple of weeks now, it tries to find audio
device(s), times out
after about 30 seconds and kills the search process, and the system
comes up with no audio whatever.
[...]
I've set up a basic script I can run to load the two drivers, but they
still refuse to load on bootup.
What do you mean with "refuse"? Any rrror messages? In the system log?
1:26 p.m.
david wrote:
On 07/03/2013 10:27 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
That is the ALSA log.
Do you have the device nodes in /dev/snd/? Are they accessible for
your user?
Any rrror messages? In the system log?
According to syslog, it's finds and sets up both the USB device and
the Intel snd_intel8x0 just fine. No errors there. OK, so I guess
they're loading. But ALSA still insists there are no soundcards. Does
ALSA have a log somewhere? If I watch the screen during bootup, it's udev
timing out when trying
to do something with the USB controller the USB card is connected to.
Is that the message? "doing something ... timed out"?
Regards,
Clemens
5 Jul
5 Jul
1:02 a.m.
On 07/04/2013 01:26 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Let me see if I can scroll lock the display long enough to note down
exactly what it reports. OK, here goes!
udevd[418]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/[mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2 1 3': no such file or
directory
udevd[420]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/[mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1 3 2': no such file or
directory
udevd[446]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/[mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1/1.4/1-1.4.4 1 7': no
such file or directory
udevd[391]: 'sbin/modprobe -b
pci:v00008086d000024C5sv00001179sd00000241bc04sc01i00' [396]
udevd[391]: 'sbin/modprobe -b
pci:v00008086d000024C5sv00001179sd00000241bc04sc01i00' [396] terminated
by signal 9 [Killed]
udevd[378]: 'sbin/modprobe -b
usb:v088Bp2902d0100dc00sc00do00ic01sc01ip00in00' [501]
udevd[378]: 'sbin/modprobe -b
usb:v088Bp2902d0100dc00sc00do00ic01sc01ip00in00' [501] terminated by
signal 9 [Killed]
Later there's an entry saying alsactl failed to restore, no sound cards
found.
PCI devices 1d.1 and 1d.7 appear on lspci:
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
USB controller 1 is this device on lspci:
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
The built-in Intel audio is pci device 1f.d.
The USB audio is this device from lsusb:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 08bb:2902 Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec
Don't know how to map from USB controller to bus.
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david wrote:
The only two showing are seq and timer. Both are accessible to the audio
group, which I'm part of.
On 07/03/2013 10:27 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
That is the ALSA log.
Do you have the device nodes in /dev/snd/? Are they accessible for
your user? Any rrror messages? In the system log?
According to syslog, it's finds and sets up both the USB device and
the Intel snd_intel8x0 just fine. No errors there. OK, so I guess
they're loading. But ALSA still insists there are no soundcards. Does
ALSA have a log somewhere? If I watch the
screen during bootup, it's udev timing out when trying
to do something with the USB controller the USB card is connected to.
Is that the message? "doing something ... timed out"? 
11 a.m.
On 07/04/2013 02:12 PM, Ken Dawson wrote:
On 07/04/2013 04:02 PM, david wrote:
Fortunately for me, scroll lock stopped things so I could write it down.
I don't have anything that can shoot video.
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Let me see if I can scroll lock the display long
enough to note down
exactly what it reports. OK, here goes!
Tangentially, I've found that a camcorder (or similar) is quite handy in
this situation.
8:32 a.m.
david wrote:
On 07/04/2013 01:26 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Please show all the syslog messages.
Regards,
Clemens
david wrote:
The only two showing are seq and timer. According to syslog, it's finds and sets up
both the USB device and
the Intel snd_intel8x0 just fine. No errors there.
Do you have the device nodes in /dev/snd/?
12:05 p.m.
On 07/04/2013 08:32 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
david wrote:
See other message with that.
For reference, I just shutdown and powered back on, and now aplay -l
lists the onboard sound but not the USB card. The log shows USB card
being found and setup.
At the same time, my external USB drive is showing a solid red
(reading/writing) light but the system log reports it not responding.
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On 07/04/2013 01:26 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Please show all the syslog messages. david wrote:
The only two showing are seq and timer. According to syslog, it's finds and sets up
both the USB device and
the Intel snd_intel8x0 just fine. No errors there.
Do you have the device nodes in /dev/snd/?
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