Bug 150493

Summary:	No Audio Playback or Record on RealTek ALC861 Audio Device with OpenSuse 10.1 Beta3
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mark.a.allyn
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
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Description Mark Allyn 2006-02-13 16:18:46 UTC

Audio does not work with the RealTek ALC801 Audio Device while running the OpenSuse 10.1. Beta3 release.

Suggested fix is to use the latest drivers from www.alsa-project.org;
Current latest is 1.0.11rc3.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-13 16:27:23 UTC

For SUSE Linux, please use Product SUSE Linux X.X, openSUSE is for the wiki at openSUSE only. Please attach `hwinfo --sound'. What did you do to configure your card, which driver was suggested (...), please be more verbose.

Comment 2 Michael Gross 2006-02-17 11:38:50 UTC

Please reopen this report once you can provide the information asked for.

Comment 3 Mark Allyn 2006-02-23 18:28:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please reopen this report once you can provide the information asked for.

The hwinfo output is:

12: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Multimedia controller
  [Created at pci.277]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8
  Unique ID: u1Nb.3CqPijR+eOE
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x27d8 "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0202
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "HDA Intel"
  Memory Range: 0x501c0000-0x501c3fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 50 (113 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027D8sv00008086sd00000202bc04sc03i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Comment 4 Mark Allyn 2006-02-23 22:37:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please reopen this report once you can provide the information asked for.

The audio device is a Realtek ALC861

Comment 5 Mark Allyn 2006-02-23 22:40:23 UTC

A patch for ALSA has been submitted to ALSA and will appear in 
ALSA 1.0.11rc4.

I would like to suggest that OpenSuse consider downloading and
including ALSA 1.0.11rc4 or later when it becomes available. This
should solve this problem as well as the audio problem on the
Intel D945 Chipset based systems.

I am going to re-open this bug pending arrival of ALSA 1.0.11rc4

Comment 6 Mark Allyn 2006-02-23 22:44:23 UTC

I am not sure if this is the right move, but do I re-open this bug
pending arrival of ALSA 1.0.11rc4 from alsa-project.org (which is
supposed to have the patch required to fix this problem)? 

If not, what state do I put this bug in if we are awaiting 
something from an upstream source?

Comment 7 Michael Gross 2006-02-24 17:07:55 UTC

Let's ask Takashi.

Comment 8 Takashi Iwai 2006-02-24 17:24:14 UTC

SUSE 10.1 is (almost) identical with ALSA 1.0.11rc3 + latest CVS fixes.

Comment 9 Takashi Iwai 2006-02-24 17:36:03 UTC

To be more precise:

  alsa-drivers = identical with the latest CVS
  alsa-lib = a new simple_pcm API is missing, but others are same as CVS
  alsa-utils = identical with latest CVS
  alsa-tools = identical with latest CVS
  alsa-plugins = 1.0.10 + misc fixes

Comment 10 Takashi Iwai 2006-03-07 17:11:53 UTC

Anyway HD-audio bugs should be fixed, at least for ALC* codecs.  Try beta6 or later.