No sound in Ubuntu 9.10 (ATI Radeon express cards)

11-14-2009, 04:38 PM

Hi All

After installing ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop Toshiba A135 - S2386 , i am
not getting any sound in it. The output of the lspci command is as below:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA
Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
(rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon
Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless
Network Adapter (rev 01)
09:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
(rev 01)
09:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

The output of the lsmod command is as below :

Module Size Used by
isofs 31620 0
udf 80900 1
crc_itu_t 1852 1 udf
binfmt_misc 8356 1
ppdev 6688 0
snd_hda_intel 26920 0
snd_hda_codec 75708 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7200 1 snd_hda_codec
arc4 1660 2
ecb 2524 2
ath5k 124260 0
mac80211 181236 1 ath5k
pcmcia 36808 0
yenta_socket 24200 1
rsrc_nonstatic 11644 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 35792 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
lp 8964 0
parport 35340 2 ppdev,lp
led_class 4096 1 ath5k
joydev 10272 0
ath 8060 1 ath5k
psmouse 56180 0
i2c_piix4 9932 0
serio_raw 5280 0
shpchp 32272 0
iptable_filter 3100 0
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 50224 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6920 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 59204 11
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7264 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cfg80211 93052 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
8139too 22620 0
8139cp 19260 0
mii 5212 2 8139too,8139cp
radeon 636000 2
ttm 36212 1 radeon
drm 159584 4 radeon,ttm
i2c_algo_bit 5760 1 radeon
video 19380 0
output 2780 1 video
ati_agp 6760 0
agpgart 34988 3 ttm,drm,ati_agp

Also after lot of googling on various forums i could find that the bug
is in *"Incomplete" *, please tell me what i need to do to get the sound
working in laptop. Bug is : Bug #458433
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/458433>

Thanks
Jatin

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11-14-2009, 08:55 PM

On 11/14/2009 09:38 AM, Jatin Davey wrote:
> ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
> Audio Controller (rev 01)

Try:
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=ATI+Technologies+Inc+IXP+SB4x0+ &field.actions.search=Search>

and perhaps:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/426116>
[[Karmic] No sound with ATI IXP SB4x0 HDA - Comment #26]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=452992

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11-15-2009, 05:17 AM

NoOp wrote:
> On 11/14/2009 09:38 AM, Jatin Davey wrote:
>
>> ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
>> Audio Controller (rev 01)
>>
>
> Try:
> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=ATI+Technologies+Inc+IXP+SB4x0+ &field.actions.search=Search>
>
> and perhaps:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/426116>
> [[Karmic] No sound with ATI IXP SB4x0 HDA - Comment #26]
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=452992
>
>
>
>
Thanks all for the help. Sound has started working on my laptop now.
Thanks for the post Mark. For the benefit of all who are following this
mail thread pasting the same solution here as well :

I found a solution here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=452992
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=452992>
as toshiba satellite a135-s2386 have the same sound hardware this will work

here the solution if for some reason the site is down:

go to the terminal and:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

then put this at the bottom:

options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=8 model=3stack

after that kill pulseaudio with this:

killall pulseaudio

after that restart pulse audio:

sudo alsa force-reload

and finally do aplay -l should have something like this:

adamtheo@laptop-satellite:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

i guess this may help a lot of people here

Thanks
Jatin

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11-15-2009, 05:58 PM

On 11/14/2009 10:17 PM, Jatin Davey wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 11/14/2009 09:38 AM, Jatin Davey wrote:
>>
>>> ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
>>> Audio Controller (rev 01)
>>>
>>
>> Try:
>> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=ATI+Technologies+Inc+IXP+SB4x0+ &field.actions.search=Search>
>>
>> and perhaps:
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/426116>
>> [[Karmic] No sound with ATI IXP SB4x0 HDA - Comment #26]
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=452992
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks all for the help. Sound has started working on my laptop now.
> Thanks for the post Mark.

Not sure who Mark is, but glad the link I gave you to
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=452992 worked. :-)

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11-16-2009, 08:36 AM

2009/11/14 Jatin Davey <daveyjatin@gmail.com>:
> Hi All
>
[snip]
> Also after lot of googling on various forums i could find that the bug
> is in *"Incomplete" *, please tell me what i need to do to get the sound
> working in laptop. Bug is : Bug #458433
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/458433>

If your kernel is up to date, you can report that sounds does not
work for you either (it is marked incomplete because the bug reporter
had a kernel that was considered "old).

Loïc

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