Transferring a sound card

I am soon to buy a Mac Pro which will replace my pc audio workstation. I have an old (but much-loved) Yamaha SW1000XG PCI sound card and would like to know if I will be able to use this in my Mac Pro.
I actually write very little music now, so additional expenditure on sound modules is something I would like to avoid. I know I can use a huge array of soft synths etc but would like to know if using my SW1000XG is an option.
Powerbook G4 867 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.10)

It does kinda suck that the only options are the 3 cards from Apple, but maybe ATI or NVIDIA will offer something new soon

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Sound card problem - This device cannot start. (Code

hi all,
here's my situation...
i had a dell dimension 4400 that came with a sound blaster li've! value(wdm) sound card. i recently got a new motherboard/case etc. i transferred the sound card to my new system and i get a "This device cannot start. (Code 0)" error when i check device manager. for some reason, the game port on the sound card is working fine, but the audio processor part has the error. windows recognizes the card, but it won't use it. the card is a little over 3 years old.
now, i've read the forums, tried a clean install, registry tweaks, changed bios settings, even did a hd format. i also tried different pci slots. i have sp2 and all my other drivers are updated.
the new motherboard i have is a gigabyte 8ipe000g. i already contacted gigabyte, did not get much help. it has onboard ac97 audio. i disabled the onboard audio, but it did not seem to change anything. i have also tried windows drivers, the dell drivers from the cd, and the drivers from the creative website. none of them changed anything. i am now having trouble removing the drivers from add/remove programs. i keep removing them, but they still remain, even after using the wdm driver remover from the cd (a file named ctapxx.exe, or something similar). it's almost like windows is not actually installing the drivers when i install them. i'm wondering if the code 0 error is specifically driver related.
the first time i disabled the onboard audio and updated the drivers a weird thing happened. every time i started the computer up it would crash when it got to the desktop. it no longer does this for some reason, everything now starts up, but i have no audio. the sound card is the only device giving me problems on my system.
is there anything else i need plugged into the sound card? all i have is the sound card plugged into the pci slot, and an audio cord going from the card to my dvd dri've. is there anything that is supposed to go from the card directly to the motherboard? as far as i can tell, i have everything hooked up correctly. i don't understand why the game port works, but not the audio processor.
so, i have basically tried everything. seems like quite a few people get code 0 errors with some sort of hardware they have, but it usually seems like there is no definite solution.
does anyone have a similar problem, or a solution? hopefully i don't have to get a new sound card. i would just stick with my onboard audio, but i hear it can cause problems with games.

Since you have a new board it maybe a bios setting.
Is there IRQ conflict from the soundcard.
Maybe remove the card and unistall the software, use a tool "driver cleaner pro" to remove all creative files.
Check your mainboard manual on what pci slot that dont share, i hear slot 3 is the one to use, i use slot 5.
Fit the card and reinstall.
Best of luck.

Stream audio from sound card input thru network

Good Day:
I have an application where I need to access instruments at a remote location. Command/Control of the instruments is not a problem, but I also need to stream the audio present at the remote system's sound card thru the network connection. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this via LabWindows?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
-Ed

Hi Ed,
First, I was wondering, how do you get the audio from the sound card? Is it from a LabWindows program? I've never done that. Second, I was wondering how do you play the audio on the remote machine? Is that through a LabWindows program? I've never done that either.
But I was wondering if just a remote PC app would do the job. Like admins use to take over your PC from there desk and fix problems. I assume they have these that send the audio thru the net as well as the screen. Then on the radio's PC you just need a LabWindows program to control the radio and some other app to play sound from the sound card input to the local speaker. Then the remote PC app would magically transfer the screen and audio from the radio PC to the remote PC.
Otherwise, I can just say that to stream the audio thru the net, after the Radio's PC gets it off the sound card somehow, I would just set up two TCP servers on the remote PC, one for audio and one for the commands/control. When the remote PC client connects to the audio server the audio server would just start sending audio data to the client. The client would receive the data and put it in a big buffer to handle network speed variation. Let the buffer fill up to like a second or more worth of data before having anothe function/thread read the buffer data and give the data to the client PC's sound card. Big problem is that the client PC's sound card will alway's consume the data at a slightly different speed than the servers sound card produces it. Different clocks running at slightly different frequencies. So the client function that reads the audio buffer to give it to the sound card must play games. If the buffer is shrinking over time then it has to create extra samples to give to the sound card, just duplicating a sample every 100 samples or whatever. If the buffer is growing over time then it throws away a sample every 100 sample or whatever. So it's kind of a challenge to manage the buffer with the variable speed of the net transfering data and the two different rates of producing and consuming the audio data.
LabWindows has the TCP server create and client create functions so that's pretty easy. The harder part is that you probibly want to set the Radio's PC to a fixed IP address so that you can connect to it without worrying about domain names and such. Then the two TCP ports that the LabWindows uses for command and audio might need to be setup in all the routers to let you establish a connection. Your IT guy's can answer that.
PS. you can play around with this suff on one PC by using the RegisterTCPServerEx function and setting the local host address to "localhost", or "127.0.0.1" on one LabWindows project and using the corresponding ConnectToTCpServerEx with "NULL" as the server host name on another LabWindows project. This creates a virtual TCP connection on the same machine. This does not duplicate the different audio clock issue I talked about above.

Spdif guitar sound from Creative Blaster not coming out through motherboard sound card

I just bought a new 64 bit PC & transferred my creative labs sound blaster card to it from my old 32 bit PC.
Everything was fine with windows XP on that 32 bit machine. I fed my guitar signal from my Line 6 UX2 into the spdif in on the creative sound card & the guitar sound was available at the back of my PC from the basic card on the motherboard.
Now with the new PC I still plug my guitar into spdif input at front of my creative labs sound card. The output is present on the optical out at on the Blaster card. However the guitar sound coming out of the back of my PC from the onboard Realtek sound card is delayed by about 100ms & is poor quality. I've tried every configuration setting but can't get it right. I need to take it from the back so I get everything including play back from one output.
Also the creative labs control consol opened initially, but now says 'device not available' when I try to open it. Although to start with it would open. The creative card is enabled so it should see it.
I've downloaded the latest creative labs driver. I think it's for 64 bit. Not sure.
Any constructive suggestions would be much appreciated.

Does ANYONE have a solution?

Using the internal sound card with good optical A/D converters?

Dear Logic users, I have two questions:
1) I was wondering if the internal sound card of my MacBook is of such quality that I can achieve good results if I bought a good A/D converter with a digital output to plug directly into the optical line in of the MacBook? E.g. the Samson C-valve http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1651&brandID=2 along with the M-Audio Co2 http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/CO2-main.html to convert the coaxial S/PDIF to optical? (Same procedure for the line out signal, with a D/A converter of course.) Or is the internal sound card of such inferior quality that I should stick with my current MBox 2 Pro? My initial thought was that if the signal is kept within the digital realm, it is really the A/D converters that determine the sound quality, and that the internal sound card of my MacBook does little less than calculate the digital signal. Maybe someone with a more intimate knowledge of how the internal sound card works with digital I/O could chime in?
2) If the above mentioned approach would be feasible, suggestions of other A/D and D/A converters would be most welcome.
The reason for this is to be free from the driver issues that sometimes occur with external hardware, especially with software/OS upgrades.

If you are recording Midi using loops and all it wont make a difference in having a AD/ converter. as everything you are doing is in the box.
However if you want to get a Analogue signal into the computer then its a different case, and I'm not talking about using Optical from a keyboard, and even if i was you would need to have a converter anyway,
even though i am talking about Recording Vocals or Live instrument!
This is where the Converters come into play, be aware Converter and sound-cards are two different source of hardware,
anyway Back to Converters on live vocals this is where the AD comes into play,
transferring Analogue Signal into Digital,
and also getting used to the sound of the converts, or even liking the the sound of the converters/soundcard which is always going to be subjective and which also shares a relation with Near-field monitors,
you change your monitors and it seems as if your sound changes that is how tight the relation is between the two.
Fr.BlayZay.

HS 1000 USB with creative x-fi sound card

Hi there
I've a question for creative: why in your website don't you say that the headset disable any soundcard and sets itself as the default audio device? That's because I've already a creative x-fi soundcard and when i bought this product i expected to make the most of its capability since i have both soundcard and headset of creative. Now what should i do considering that i would get a better sound plugging an headset directly into my soundcard?
thanks for your replies

___Hello, frustrated!! I empathize with you totally!! I own one Dell and 4 Mac's (for my creative work) including one top of the line MacPro, and I, too, have the 5.1 (and beyond!) sound problem issue. I agree with you that it is terrible that, in my case, after spending $12,000 for this bleeding edge technology, it only comes with stereo capability! When I used my older G-4, I was extremely happy for years with the Revolution 7.1 Surround Sound Card, by a great company called M-Audio. This card worked seamlessly right out of the box.....the software was so easy to use, too. So, naturally I was really shocked and bummed out a few months ago, when I learned from their tech support and sales team there, that no, this card will NOT work on the MacPro.
From the M-Audio website: Re: A_pple Intel Mac Pro & DualCore PowerMac G5 desktop compatibility_
The new Intel based Mac Pro desktop computers, as well as the latest generation DualCore PowerMac G5's, have PCI-Express slots, and not PCI or PCI-X (Like the Delta/Revolution Series cards). Not only are the data rates on PCI-Express different from PCI/PCI-X, but PCI-Express uses serial data transfers versus PCI/PCI-X transferring its data in a parallel fashion. For these reasons, a PCI-Express type motherboard connector (or "slot") is physically different from a PCI or PCI-X type connector. Therefore a PCI-Express adapter will not physically fit in a PCI or PCI-X slot, and vice-versa. This is true regardless of the adapter card's manufacturer.
All of our current USB and FireWire interfaces are compatible with the new Intel Based Mac Pro and late model DualCore PowerMac G5 computers.
Please use their link: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=recording
Of course, I prefer the efficient elegance of an internal card, rather than an external box providing more desktop clutter, but at least this is a solution for us! Best of luck to you!!

Pulse Audio no longer detecting sound card; ALSA still detects

After a recent update, pulseaudio has stopped detecting my sound card. ALSA still detects my soundcard, and I was able to find the following in the verbose output of starting pulseaudio.
D: [pulseaudio] reserve-wrap.c: Successfully acquired reservation lock on device 'Audio0'
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)utils.c: could not open configuration file /usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA Intel/HDA Intel.conf
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)parser.c: error: could not parse configuration for card HDA Intel
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)main.c: error: failed to import HDA Intel use case configuration -2
I: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM not available for card HDA Intel
When I check out the ALSA directory mentioned, it turns out to indeed be the case that the entire ucm directory does not exist
[root@ArchSpiron james-arch]# ls -lah /usr/share/alsa/
total 52K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:56 pcm
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:56 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9.0K Apr 14 14:12 alsa.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:12 alsa.conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 208 root 4.0K Apr 13 15:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 11 07:20 init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 11 07:20 speaker-test
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4.0K Jan 23 21:21 cards
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 523 Dec 29 21:33 bluetooth.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 155 Dec 18 22:34 smixer.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.2K Dec 18 22:34 sndo-mixer.alisp
Instead the configuration file it's looking for exists under the cards/ directory
[root@ArchSpiron james-arch]# ls -lah /usr/share/alsa/cards/
total 264K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 4.0K Apr 14 14:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.6K Apr 13 16:20 HDA-Intel.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.4K Apr 13 16:20 aliases.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 7.0K Apr 12 08:10 USB-Audio.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Jan 23 21:21 SI7018
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 669 Dec 18 22:34 AACI.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 302 Dec 18 22:34 ATIIXP-MODEM.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.2K Dec 18 22:34 ATIIXP-SPDMA.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.4K Dec 18 22:34 ATIIXP.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 437 Dec 18 22:34 AU8810.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 159 Dec 18 22:34 AU8820.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 520 Dec 18 22:34 AU8830.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 5.7K Dec 18 22:34 Audigy.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 7.5K Dec 18 22:34 Audigy2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.3K Dec 18 22:34 Aureon51.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.5K Dec 18 22:34 Aureon71.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.8K Dec 18 22:34 CA0106.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.8K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8338-SWIEC.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.9K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8338.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.1K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8738-MC6.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.9K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8738-MC8.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.6K Dec 18 22:34 CMI8788.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.9K Dec 18 22:34 CS46xx.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 5.5K Dec 18 22:34 EMU10K1.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.7K Dec 18 22:34 EMU10K1X.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.4K Dec 18 22:34 ENS1370.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.8K Dec 18 22:34 ENS1371.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 152 Dec 18 22:34 ES1968.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.3K Dec 18 22:34 Echo_Echo3G.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.2K Dec 18 22:34 FM801.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 333 Dec 18 22:34 FWSpeakers.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 672 Dec 18 22:34 FireWave.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 217 Dec 18 22:34 GUS.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.1K Dec 18 22:34 ICE1712.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.8K Dec 18 22:34 ICE1724.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 192 Dec 18 22:34 ICH-MODEM.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.0K Dec 18 22:34 ICH.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.8K Dec 18 22:34 ICH4.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 558 Dec 18 22:34 Maestro3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.7K Dec 18 22:34 NFORCE.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 657 Dec 18 22:34 PC-Speaker.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 486 Dec 18 22:34 PMac.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 705 Dec 18 22:34 PMacToonie.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.2K Dec 18 22:34 PS3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 780 Dec 18 22:34 RME9636.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 780 Dec 18 22:34 RME9652.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.5K Dec 18 22:34 SB-XFi.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.2K Dec 18 22:34 SI7018.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.7K Dec 18 22:34 TRID4DWAVENX.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.2K Dec 18 22:34 VIA686A.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.7K Dec 18 22:34 VIA8233.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.8K Dec 18 22:34 VIA8233A.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2.5K Dec 18 22:34 VIA8237.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 830 Dec 18 22:34 VX222.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 839 Dec 18 22:34 VXPocket.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.5K Dec 18 22:34 VXPocket440.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1.4K Dec 18 22:34 YMF744.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 687 Dec 18 22:34 aliases.alisp
I'm not at all familiar with pulseaudio configuration. Does anyone know of a good way for me to resolve this issue? Have I even identified the correct issue?
UPDATE:
I was able to work around my problem for the moment by symlinking the configuration file to the location that pulseaudio was actually looking for it
# mkdir -p /usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA\ Intel
# ln -s /usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf /usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA\ Intel/HDA\ Intel.conf
Although this does get my sound back, it is a hacky work-around and obviously not ideal. Anyone who knows a bit about pulse configuration, I welcome your input here
Last edited by OakRaider4Life (2013-04-14 22:14:34)

Thank you so much for posting your solution!
I was having the same problem. The funny part was it started happening (and not always) after KDE says that the Intel HDA device is "gone" and asking me to remove it from my configuration. Even by saying no it wouldn't work. Killing pulseaudio with
pulseaudio -k
would have everything fallback to Alsa but starting pulseaudio again wouldn't work.
Rebooting right away doesn't take care of the issue either but after a while the problem would go away...
Any inputs would be appreaciated!

Dv6265us connexant PCI sound card + windows 7 = Not working

So I'm here becuase I can't find a driver on my own. I've scoured the internet for hours, finding very little to help with my issue. So here goes...
I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 (Dv6265us), and ever since I installed window 7, Windows cannot figure out what drivers to install for the PCI sound card. The best I've found so far says this:
"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it"
"Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio"
"If you know the manufacturer of your device, you can visit its website and check the support section for driver software."
Now here's the funky part...everywhere I've found information on my laptop, it says I have a Conexant PCI sound card. If I'm wrong I would love for someone to tell me; better yet, a link to a download to actually be able to use the PCI sound card. Right now the card is under other devices and is listed as "PCI Device".
Now the Link I've provided from the conexant site will tell you this under PC Audio Support - Windows® 7,
"Conexant develops audio solutions that are used in a wide range of products including personal computers. We provide customized audio drivers to our customers, which include major computer manufacturers globally. At the request of these manufacturers, Conexant does not provide end-user support or drivers for PC audio products. If you have an issue with the audio configuration in Windows 7, please contact the manufacturer of your computer.
I tried calling HP support, but they wouldn't even answer my yes or no question... "Do you have audio drivers for my laptop that will allow me to hear sound?" Instead of saying yes or no, I was told that I needed to pay fifty to one-hundred dollars;....fifty dollars for a one time fee of telephone service, or one-hundred for the year. I even went as far as asking..."if you can't fix my problem, do I get a refund?" I was told no...so here I am. I've had problems before with hp...but this is rediculous, and whats worse is from the way things look, Connexant was told NOT to support their own product, or provide drivers for windows 7 by their customer(HP). I realize everyone is hurting for money, but **bleep**, this is a new low...

To answer your question, there are no windows 7 drivers for that model notebook. The notebook was designed for Windows 2000, Windows xp and windows vista.
This is one of the issues with upgrading the OS on a computer before checking the specs of the hardware.
I do understand the frustration but it would be more beneficial to revert back to the original OS that the notebook came with. That is what the HP support desk will have you do to prove functionality of the notebook should you have paid for the Diagnostic Support.
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP. Clicking the "Kudos star" to the left is a great way to say thanks!
When your problem has been solved, accept the solution by clicking the "Accept as Solution" button to help other members in the future!

Unable to make microphone to work on NVIDIA MCP55 onboard sound card

Hello.
Some time ago, I bought a nice HP xw9400 Workstation (with Dual Core AMD Opteron 2216) from Germany. Despite it's starting to become old by today's standards for some stuff like gaming, it's still quite okay to use and the SAS HDD makes it boot fastly. And it has one of the best cases, you can plug PCI/PCIe/PCI-X cards very easily and it's very nice to change or add HDDs. Maybe I'll upgrade the CPUs (I can upgrade the bios and it seems it can support better CPUs) if I find them on eBay or other place.
I have less problems with Arch than the rest of distributions, but I still have weird issues. Despite my computer hardware is somewhat old, I still experience weird problems everywhere (it seems I have some kind of weird "luck").
I have problems using my microphone under Arch with "NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)" onboard sound card , here is the relevant info.
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5907a … f5d2b9d88c
$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Dec 12 00:00 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Dec 12 00:00 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Dec 11 23:58 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Dec 12 00:00 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Dec 11 23:58 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Dec 12 01:34 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Dec 12 02:33 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Dec 11 23:58 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Dec 12 01:28 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Dec 12 01:43 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 11 23:58 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 11 23:58 timer
% arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 2: ALC262 Alt Analog [ALC262 Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 2/2
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 1: Camera [USB Video Camera], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
% arecord --list-pcms
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=NVidia
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=NVidia
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, ALC262 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
default:CARD=Camera
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Camera
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Camera,DEV=0
USB Video Camera, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
(I was unable to make the microphone on the usb webcam to work, but that's another issue I'll ask in a separate forum thread...)
% head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*
Codec: Realtek ALC262
I found this in Gentoo forums, very similar issue and a fix that don't works (see in a bit further)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-88 … art-0.html
And this...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1672571
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475588
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/577178
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu … rking.html (2007 forum post, but very similar)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs … 02583.html (2009)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522101 (2009, closed in 2011)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474383
-> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs … 02583.html (it seems the bug tracker works quite bad or there's some issue looking at that issue, so here's the mailing list message about it)
I also tried create /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add the following line to it...
options snd-hda-intel model=6stack
And no luck! I tried it and still appear both "Rear Mic" and "Front Mic". I'll provide a screenshot later.
I'm starting to understand this, maybe it can help me...
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Record_from_mic
I tested both sound hardware by using arecord and audacity, no luck at all
% arecord -Dhw:1 --dump-hw-params
Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
HW Params of device "hw:1":
ACCESS: MMAP_INTERLEAVED RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT: S16_LE
SUBFORMAT: STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 16
CHANNELS: 1
RATE: [8000 48000]
PERIOD_TIME: [1000 32768000]
PERIOD_SIZE: [32 262144]
PERIOD_BYTES: [64 524288]
PERIODS: [2 1024]
BUFFER_TIME: (1333 65536000]
BUFFER_SIZE: [64 524288]
BUFFER_BYTES: [128 1048576]
TICK_TIME: ALL
arecord: set_params:1233: Sample format non available
Available formats:
- S16_LE
% arecord -D hw:1 -f S16_LE myfile.raw
Recording WAVE 'myfile.raw' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Input/output error
% arecord -D hw:1 -f S16_LE -V myfile.raw
Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Input/output error
% arecord -D hw:1 -f S16_LE -V -r48000 myfile.raw
Recording WAVE 'myfile.raw' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Input/output error
% arecord -D hw:1 -f S16_LE -r48000 myfile.raw
Recording WAVE 'myfile.raw' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Input/output error
% arecord -D hw:1 -f S16_LE -r44100 myfile.raw
Recording WAVE 'myfile.raw' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Input/output error
% arecord -D hw:1 -f S16_LE -r16000 myfile.raw
Recording WAVE 'myfile.raw' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Input/output error
(I tried them with my user and root, same results)
I had an Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro, but removed it to see if there was some problem. I'm still unable to use my Microphone even on onboard audio hardware. I'll try to use it once I have the microphone working
Regards.
Last edited by timofonic (2013-12-12 04:11:57)

Sorry, that was wrong, I meant
arecord -l
Have you tried making a virtual loopback device like above and using
arecord -vv -fdat out.wav
You should see the #### fluctuate as you speak into the mic. If not, then unmute and turn up your mic in alsamixer. That loopback device will allow you to capture your sound card and hear it at the same time. Another way to do it is to use a jumper from line out to line in on your sound device. You won't be able to hear it while you record though.
If your sound device works, then you can capture what's going through it. You'll need to determine which vitual device your mic is.
Example
arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 2: ALC662 rev1 Alt Analog [ALC662 rev1 Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Loopback [Loopback], device 1: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

Hi def sound card? internal dv4 1123us

I recent ly put this out there and accidentaly clicked on solved after 1 reply/
is there any software that is in this thing that will let me record line in (Im not talking microphone) I mean come-on HP has to support its own device, or at least provide the ability to do so with a little work. How do you have a hi def sound card w only mic in?

This site (http://harness.gadgetscope.com/view/XFIH-002) sells a cable for this purpose that will work with any SB card with the ten pin white connector on it. Bit expensi've but should do the trick.

How do i add a sound card to hp pavilion p2-1106.

The HP web site says:
that on the hp pavilion p2-1106 desk top the on mother board audio will not work if a new souond card is installed.
How do I install a new internal sound card?

Here are the specs for the HP Pavilion p2-1106 Desktop Computer and it's IPXSB-DM (Cork) motherboard. This system has no expansion slots and will not accept any add-in cards. What it currently has is all you get.
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[SOLVED] Mic does not work on Intel ICH8 (rev 3) sound card

Hi, folks.
I cannot get my sound card to record anything, using a built-in microphone. Audio output works just fine, though. I hope someone can help me, I have been banging my head against the wall for some time over this issue...
My laptop is Toshiba Satellite A200-1J0 (PSAE6E-04R036G3). alsamixer settings are fine, I tried supplementing additional options to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf, but no luck, tried some of the combinations (model=<> position_fix=<>).
When recording sound with gnome-sound-recorder, with Capture set as input, nothing is heard. Skype can't record anything, either. I can't even get the crackling or hissing sound like some users do.
Should I try to get the latest ALSA?
Debug details start from now on:
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=3stack position_fix=1
lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 1099 0
snd_seq_oss 25304 0
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 2051 1
snd_seq_midi_event 4452 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_hda_codec_realtek 179240 1
snd_seq 42628 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_hda_intel 18697 1
snd_seq_device 4313 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec 56728 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 33693 0
snd_mixer_oss 14810 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep 5102 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 57479 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 16117 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 43847 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5007 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 5809 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lspci (parts of interest)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff00
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at fc400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff00
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fc020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD 2600 Series]
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD 2600 Series]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fc010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
alsa-info.sh
upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.58
!!Script ran on: Sat Jan 23 20:27:13 UTC 2010
!!Linux Distribution
Arch Linux \r (\n) (\l) DISTRIB_ID=arch
!!DMI Information
Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
Product Name: Satellite A200
!!Kernel Information
Kernel release: 2.6.32-ARCH
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
SMP Enabled: Yes
!!ALSA Version
Driver version: 1.0.21
Library version: 1.0.22
Utilities version: 1.0.22
!!Loaded ALSA modules
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel
!!Sound Servers on this system
ESound Daemon:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
Running - No
Jack:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
Running - No
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfc400000 irq 22
1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfc010000 irq 17
!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD 2600 Series]
0c:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
Subsystem: 1179:ff00
01:00.1 0403: 1002:aa08
Subsystem: 1002:aa08
!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
snd-hda-intel: index=0 model=3stack position_fix=1
!!Loaded sound module options
!!Module: snd_hda_intel
bdl_pos_adj : 1,32,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
enable : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y
enable_msi : 0
id : <NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
index : 0,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
model : 3stack,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
patch : <NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
position_fix : 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
power_save : 1
power_save_controller : Y
probe_mask : -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
probe_only : N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N
single_cmd : N
!!Module: snd_hda_intel
bdl_pos_adj : 1,32,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
enable : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y
enable_msi : 0
id : <NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
index : 0,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
model : 3stack,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
patch : <NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
position_fix : 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
power_save : 1
power_save_controller : Y
probe_mask : -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
probe_only : N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N,N
single_cmd : N
!!HDA-Intel Codec information
--startcollapse--
Codec: Realtek ALC268
Address: 0
Function Id: 0x1
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0268
Subsystem Id: 0x1179ff02
Revision Id: 0x100003
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Default Amp-In caps: N/A
Default Amp-Out caps: N/A
GPIO: io=4, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=1, wake=0
IO[0]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
IO[1]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
IO[2]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
IO[3]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0, unsol=0
Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x1d: Stereo Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x40, nsteps=0x40, stepsize=0x03, mute=0
Amp-Out vals: [0x40 0x40]
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
PCM:
rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x1d: Stereo Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x40, nsteps=0x40, stepsize=0x03, mute=0
Amp-Out vals: [0x35 0x35]
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
PCM:
rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x04 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x05 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x06 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
PCM:
rates [0x5e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32
formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x07 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100111: Stereo
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
SDI-Select: 0
PCM:
rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000
bits [0x6]: 16 20
formats [0x1]: PCM
Connection: 1
0x24
Node 0x08 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100111: Stereo
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
SDI-Select: 0
PCM:
rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000
bits [0x6]: 16 20
formats [0x1]: PCM
Connection: 1
0x23
Node 0x09 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x0a [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x0b [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x0c [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x0d [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x0e [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010a: Mono Amp-In
Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-In vals: [0x00]
Connection: 1
0x02
Node 0x0f [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In
Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00]
Connection: 2
0x02 0x1d
Node 0x10 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In
Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00] [0x80 0x80]
Connection: 3
0x03 0x1d 0x02
Node 0x11 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x12 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo
Pincap 0x00000020: IN
Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Node 0x13 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo
Pincap 0x00000020: IN
Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018d: Stereo Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00]
Pincap 0x0001003c: IN OUT HP EAPD Detect
EAPD 0x0:
Pin Default 0x99130110: [Fixed] Speaker at Int ATAPI
Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x0f
Node 0x15 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018d: Stereo Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00]
Pincap 0x0001003c: IN OUT HP EAPD Detect
EAPD 0x0:
Pin Default 0x0221101f: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Front
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0xf
Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x10
Node 0x16 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40010c: Mono Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x80]
Pincap 0x00000010: OUT
Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
Connection: 1
0x0e
Node 0x17 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x18 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x02, stepsize=0x4f, mute=0
Amp-In vals: [0x02 0x02]
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80]
Pincap 0x00003734: IN OUT Detect
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
Pin Default 0x02a11830: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0x0
Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x02
Node 0x19 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40008b: Stereo Amp-In
Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x02, stepsize=0x4f, mute=0
Amp-In vals: [0x02 0x02]
Pincap 0x00003724: IN Detect
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
Pin Default 0x99a3093e: [Fixed] Mic at Int ATAPI
Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0xe
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Node 0x1a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x02, stepsize=0x4f, mute=0
Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00]
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80]
Pincap 0x00003734: IN OUT Detect
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN VREF_HIZ
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x02
Node 0x1b [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x1c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo
Pincap 0x00000020: IN
Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN
Node 0x1d [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400000: Mono
Pincap 0x00000020: IN
Pin Default 0x4016852d: [N/A] Speaker at Ext N/A
Conn = Digital, Color = Purple
DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0xd
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN
Node 0x1e [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400380: Mono Digital
Pincap 0x00000010: OUT
Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x06
Node 0x1f [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x20 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00040: Mono
Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=10
Processing Coefficient: 0x03
Coefficient Index: 0x01
Node 0x21 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x22 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x23 [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30010d: Stereo Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x0b, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x1d 0x1d]
Connection: 7
0x18* 0x19 0x1a 0x1c 0x14 0x15 0x12
Node 0x24 [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30010d: Stereo Amp-Out
Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x0b, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00]
Connection: 7
0x18* 0x19 0x1a 0x1c 0x14 0x15 0x13
Codec: LSI ID 1040
Address: 1
Function Id: 0x2
Vendor Id: 0x11c11040
Subsystem Id: 0x11790001
Revision Id: 0x100200
Modem Function Group: 0x1
Codec: ATI R6xx HDMI
Address: 0
Function Id: 0x1
Vendor Id: 0x1002aa01
Subsystem Id: 0x00aa0100
Revision Id: 0x100000
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
rates [0x40]: 48000
bits [0x2]: 16
formats [0x1]: PCM
Default Amp-In caps: N/A
Default Amp-Out caps: N/A
GPIO: io=0, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=0, wake=0
Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x201: Stereo Digital
Converter: stream=0, channel=0
Digital:
Digital category: 0x0
Node 0x03 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400381: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000094: OUT Detect HDMI
Pin Default 0x18560010: [Jack] Digital Out at Int HDMI
Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
Connection: 1
0x02
--endcollapse--
!!ALSA Device nodes
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/hwC0D1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 23 21:04 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 23 21:04 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 23 19:11 /dev/snd/timer
/dev/snd/by-path:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 23 19:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 280 Jan 23 19:11 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 23 19:11 pci-0000:00:1b.0 -> ../controlC0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 23 19:11 pci-0000:01:00.1 -> ../controlC1
!!Aplay/Arecord output
APLAY
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC268 Digital [ALC268 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ARECORD
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
!!Amixer output
!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [Intel]
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc400000 irq 22'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,1179ff02,00100003 HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200'
Controls : 21
Simple ctrls : 13
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 53 [83%] [-11.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 53 [83%] [-11.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 2
Front Left: 2 [100%]
Front Right: 2 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Line In Boost',0
Capabilities: volume penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 2
Front Left: 0 [0%]
Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 2
Front Left: 2 [100%]
Front Right: 2 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 12
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-24.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-24.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 29 [94%] [27.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 29 [94%] [27.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
Capabilities: cvolume penum
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 120
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-30.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-30.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
Item0: 'Mic'
!!-------Mixer controls for card 1 [HDMI]
Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfc010000 irq 17'
Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100000'
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 1
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
!!Alsactl output
--startcollapse--
state.Intel {
control.1 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 64'
comment.dbmin -6400
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Front Playback Volume'
value.0 64
value.1 64
control.2 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Front Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.3 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 64'
comment.dbmin -6400
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Headphone Playback Volume'
value.0 53
value.1 53
control.4 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Headphone Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 2'
comment.dbmin 0
comment.dbmax 4000
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Boost'
value.0 2
value.1 2
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 2'
comment.dbmin 0
comment.dbmax 4000
iface MIXER
name 'Front Mic Boost'
value.0 2
value.1 2
control.7 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 2'
comment.dbmin 0
comment.dbmax 4000
iface MIXER
name 'Line In Boost'
value.0 0
value.1 0
control.8 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
comment.dbmin -1650
comment.dbmax 3000
iface MIXER
name 'Capture Volume'
value.0 29
value.1 29
control.9 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Capture Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.10 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 Mic
comment.item.1 'Front Mic'
comment.item.2 Line
comment.item.3 CD
iface MIXER
name 'Input Source'
value Mic
control.11 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 12'
comment.dbmin -2400
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Beep Playback Volume'
value.0 0
value.1 0
control.12 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Beep Playback Switch'
value.0 true
value.1 true
control.13 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
value '0fff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.14 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
value '0f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.15 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value '0400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.16 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
value false
control.17 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Default PCM Playback Switch'
value true
control.18 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 64'
comment.dbmin -6400
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Volume'
value 64
control.19 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Switch'
value true
control.20 {
comment.access 'read write user'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.tlv '0000000100000008ffffec1400000014'
comment.dbmin -5100
comment.dbmax 0
iface MIXER
name 'PCM Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
control.21 {
comment.access 'read write user'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 120'
comment.tlv '0000000100000008fffff44800000032'
comment.dbmin -3000
comment.dbmax 3000
iface MIXER
name 'Digital Capture Volume'
value.0 0
value.1 0
state.HDMI {
control.1 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
value '0fff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.2 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
value '0f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.3 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value '0400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
control.4 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
value false
--endcollapse--
!!All Loaded Modules
Module
usbhid
hidp
hid
fuse
radeon
ttm
drm_kms_helper
drm
i2c_algo_bit
rfcomm
sco
bridge
stp
llc
bnep
l2cap
crc16
coretemp
ipv6
snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_oss
btusb
joydev
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi
fan
snd_seq_midi_event
bluetooth
snd_hda_codec_realtek
arc4
ecb
snd_seq
snd_hda_intel
iwlagn
snd_seq_device
snd_hda_codec
sdhci_pci
iwlcore
snd_pcm_oss
uvcvideo
omnibook
videodev
snd_mixer_oss
snd_hwdep
pcmcia
tifm_sd
sdhci
snd_pcm
v4l1_compat
snd_timer
psmouse
mac80211
mmc_core
yenta_socket
vboxdrv
snd
cpufreq_powersave
i2c_i801
uhci_hcd
r8169
ehci_hcd
iTCO_wdt
intel_agp
tifm_7xx1
video
rsrc_nonstatic
soundcore
firewire_ohci
agpgart
mii
i2c_core
pcspkr
snd_page_alloc
pcmcia_core
iTCO_vendor_support
led_class
output
usbcore
tifm_core
serio_raw
cfg80211
evdev
cpufreq_conservative
battery
ac
firewire_core
rfkill
crc_itu_t
thermal
button
cpufreq_ondemand
sg
acpi_cpufreq
freq_table
processor
rtc_cmos
rtc_core
rtc_lib
ext3
jbd
mbcache
sr_mod
cdrom
ata_generic
sd_mod
ata_piix
pata_acpi
ahci
libata
scsi_mod
!!Sysfs Files
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/init_pin_configs:
0x12 0x411111f0
0x13 0x411111f0
0x14 0x99130110
0x15 0x0221101f
0x16 0x411111f0
0x18 0x02a11830
0x19 0x99a3093e
0x1a 0x411111f0
0x1c 0x411111f0
0x1d 0x4016852d
0x1e 0x411111f0
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/driver_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/user_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/init_verbs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D1/init_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D1/driver_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D1/user_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D1/init_verbs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/init_pin_configs:
0x03 0x18560010
/sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/driver_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/user_pin_configs:
/sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/init_verbs:
!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input9
HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.5, id: 0x82e0b1, caps: 0xb04711/0xe0440d
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
hda-intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x018b0000
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
Bridge firewalling registered
Last edited by teMplaryum (2010-01-26 10:15:18)

Hi there!
I had the very same problem with the same soundcard and found this thread.
The problem got solved for me by adding the same line as you have to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.
However, I also had to create /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf and add:
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba power_save=0
Notice the difference on the "model=toshiba" part.
However, my laptop is not a Toshiba, but a Compal IFL90.
I remember that in Ubuntu I needed(a long time ago) to add a line to /etc/alsa.conf with model=toshiba. I figured it might be worth a try, and well, it did.
I hope this can help someone else.
As for the OP: "You have my thanks!"

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