Bugzilla – Bug 127825
Sound fails to start at boot time
Last modified: 2005-10-24 14:17:59 UTC
H/W: Thinkpad T42p OS: SUSE 10.0 (box) RC4 fresh system install (not an upgraded system) Sound card: hobbes:/home/dan/ # hwinfo --sound 20: PCI 1f.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller [Created at pci.277] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24c5 Unique ID: W60f.19YhsnRmin4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.5 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1f.5 Hardware Class: sound Model: "IBM 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x24c5 "82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x1014 "IBM" SubDevice: pci 0x0537 Revision: 0x01 Driver: "Intel ICH" I/O Ports: 0x1c00-0x1cff (rw) I/O Ports: 0x18c0-0x18ff (rw) Memory Range: 0xc0000c00-0xc0000dff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xc0000800-0xc00008ff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 11 (314543 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000024C5sv00001014sd00000537bc04sc01i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i810_audio is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i810_audio" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: snd_intel8x0 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_intel8x0" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Sound is configured correctly & works during installation. On reboot, sound is not available. hobbes:/home/dan/ # rcalsasound status ALSA sound driver not loaded. unused hobbes:/home/dan/ # rcalsasound restart Starting sound driver: intel8x0 done Restores sound. alsasound is set to be activated in runlevels 3 & 5 [Keywords: sound alsa alsasound snd_intel8x0 i810_audio IBM 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller ]
Created attachment 53837 [details] Boot messages file (/var/log/boot.msg)
hobbes:/home/dan/ # chkconfig -l alsasound alsasound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
alsasound init script itself doesn't load modules any more unlike 9.3. The modules are supposed to be loaded via hotplug/udev. See README.SuSE in alsa package. Check /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-* files whether any of them includes snd-intel8x0 module. If not, try to reconfigure the sound via yast2. (Don't use alsaconf. It's been buggy for SL10.0.)
It seems that hotplug/udev doesn't load the module :( No references to snd or intel in any /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-* file. Run yast2 sound. Where the sound card is detected. Delete current configuration. Edit configuration of card, and accept "Quick" setup, complete config process. No new hwcfg-* files found in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/ no change in existing ones (which are related to the ethernet devices anyway :) Is this a bug in yast2 sound module not writing the hwcfg- file in this case?
I think yes. Could you attach yast2 log? Reassigned to yast2-sound maintainer.
Created attachment 54086 [details] y2log excerpt Just todays messages :) hobbes:/var/log/YaST2 # grep 2005-10-14 y2log > /tmp/y2log
I have found this in y2log: 2005-10-14 12:44:00 <1> hobbes(15480) [YCP] sound/write_routines.ycp:188 using hwcfg file: hwcfg-bus-pci-0000:00:1f.5 2005-10-14 12:44:00 <1> hobbes(15480) [YCP] sound/write_routines.ycp:292 Removing file: bus-pci-0000:00:1f.5 It means that yast creates the hwcfg file, but it's immediately deleted - see bug #116483. The workaround is to remove the sound card, exit the yast module (write/activate the changes), restart the yast module and finally configure the sound card. Then it should work. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116483 ***
I wonder if this is connected to bug #121872.
Oops - sorry, forget comment #8 - wrong bug.