VIA HD Audio Codec VT8237A - no sound

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Live 7.10 Tribe 5 outputs:

See also bug #127343 and bug #133560.

With gutsy, i can hear sounds with a headphone but it's very quiet. When i use the speaker, there is no sound at all.

After installing the latest OSS driver i have sound from both the speaker and the headphone, but if I plug in a headphone it doesn't mute the speaker. The other problem is that my logitech USB speakers stopped working. I couldn't switch between the inner speaker and the USB speakers anymore. Uninstalling the OSS driver put me back to the original state.

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installing the latest OSS driver?
I am just a bug triager, but that seems a bit hard, had to compile it?

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I didn't have to compile it, the deb package is available to download from http://www.opensound.com/oss.html .
I will try it the sound with the next Alpha release.

Unfortunately there is no change in Hardy Alpha 3. No sound from the speaker, only a very low volume sound from the headphone.

Then adding bug on linux package (Hardy kernel) and confirming.
Thanks a lot for this new information.

As far as I know, drivers from http://www.opensound.com/oss.html are not expected to go in a future version of the kernel.
They were close source for the last 10 years, and only recently been re-released open-source.
Since then, ALSA have replaced OSS (having OSS emulation from ALSA) inside the kernel.
Info mostly taken from http://www.4front-tech.com/hannublog/

1708B and 1709 support refined in alsa-kernel hg.

"1708B and 1709 support refined in alsa-kernel hg."

Does this mean the sound will work in Hardy? I don't know what 1708B and 1709 are but I will test the next version.

It means that it should be fixed by the hardy release.

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:52 +0000, krychek wrote:
> "1708B and 1709 support refined in alsa-kernel hg."
>
> Does this mean the sound will work in Hardy? I don't know what 1708B and
> 1709 are but I will test the next version.
>

Developers: according to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=659996, bug have appear on 2.20.16 and was not in 2.20.15.
I know, it won't be fixed if Feisty.

Krychek, I think 1708 refer to the chip that deals with sound on your motherboard, after all your bug report had in it:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: VT1708 Analog [VT1708 Analog]

hg is the symbol of Mercure and the command use for the Mercurial control version system used by alsa developers to share their patchs.
alsa-kernel hg can be browsed at:
http://hg-mirror.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/

So I think that the strange sentence was willing to say that new patches have been added to fix problems with your chip in the previously mentioned link.
While making the sentence, Daniel marked the bug as Fix committed, probably because he think that these patches will fix your problem.
Since it did not marked it as fix committed should means that this is not yet available even in Hardy (here I am saying the opposite of William).
Maybe William knows stuff I don't.

Still no sound in Hardy 4.

I just installed the new alsa driver 1.0.16 RC2 and the sound works! \o/
If Hardy will have the new version then it's gonna be OK.

There is a problem though: my laptop has only one speaker, it's on the left side. If I mute the left channel and max out the right one there's only noise. If you're using headphones it's terrible cuz you hear only noise from the right side..

Maybe this should be reported as another bug?

linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-7.12 should have the 1.0.16 version of ALSA. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 Thanks.

I just tried Hardy Alpha 5, it has alsa 1.0.16 but i have still no sound on the speaker. I don't understand. :(

Make sure you have all your sound controls unmuted and volumes turned up. ALSA 1.0.16 mutes controls by default so you have to unmute them to hear sound. Thanks.

I'm sorry. Sound was muted. It works perfectly when I turn up the volume. Only the jack sensing isn't ok but i think it's not so important. And I haven't tested the microphone yet..

The microphone works also. Great.