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Sound echoes, after upgrade.

Bug #54988 reported by Geir Ergoy
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linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

My computer is a VIA Mini-ITX main board, with everything integrated. The sound card is called VIA VT8235 - 5.1 surround.

I installed Ubuntu flawlessly.
That annoying popup in the upper right corner told me to upgrade, which I did.

LONG after, it said it was time to reboot. I did.
The login sound echoes now.
First it plays once: "Tatata" this is normal.
But after the reboot, it sounds like this:

Tatata tata tata tata tata tata tata tata ta ta ta *silence*

What is wrong?

What's worst: It happened twice. I experienced this first a month ago. I tried again today, but the same happened.
Nothing else is wrong (except some graphics problems with selecting VESA driver. but that's another bug report. That is normal with all distros on this PC.)

I don't know what to do about this weird bug. I hope you do.

-Geir.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is [your] standard audio [using any audio app] audible post-login?

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Geir Ergoy (taraxacum) wrote :

Not just the startup-sound.
XMMS, amaroK and so on, have the same problem.

It seems that each somg is plit into hundreds of pieces.
Rather than playing them in rapid succession, every 1/10 of a second is played 5-6 times, before moving on to another. It's not really echoing. It's stuttering.

From Wikipedia:
Stuttering (known as stammering in the United Kingdom, sometimes misspelled studdering ) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases; and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.

And that's a perfect definition of my problem. I could record a sound clip of my *attempt* on playing a song, if your'e interested.

Everything else works. This happened after the upgrade. No error messages. But the startup takes a while longer, i think. It's like the splash screen hangs for some seconds, and the icons make me wait for them before they appear.

When the computer finally is started, I can surf, write and so on. But no music or sound.

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Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca) wrote :

Please do record the sound... are you using artsd? I've been having trouble with it since upgrade to edgy.
Also, does it do this when recording? Like does the recording "stutter" or skip, or does it record smoothly?
Also, when you run a sound-playing program from konsole/terminal, do you get errors?

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Please _attach_ the output from ``cat /proc/asound/cards && tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat && lspci -nv''.

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Geir Ergoy (taraxacum) wrote :
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Hello!
I re-installed the system. I will do everything you say, and then repeat the fatal upgrade once again. We will see what has changed, that way.

This is a fresh install:
geir@coelacanth:~$ sudo cat /proc/asound/cards && tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat && lspci -nv
Password:
0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
                     VIA 8235 with VT1616i at 0xc400, irq 5
Mixers:
0: ICEnsemble VT1616i
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3123
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b091
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e4000000-e7ffffff
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:0a.0 0607: 1180:0476 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 20000000-21fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 22000000-23fff000
        I/O window 0: 00001000-000010ff
        I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0a.1 0607: 1180:0476 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 24000000-25fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 26000000-27fff000
        I/O window 0: 00001800-000018ff
        I/O window 1: 00001c00-00001cff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0d.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
        Subsystem: 1106:3044
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea00a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        I/O ports at b000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at b400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at b800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 82) (prog-if 20)
        Subsystem: 1106:3104
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea00b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3177
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, steppi...

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Geir Ergoy (taraxacum) wrote :
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Back from vacation. Sorry about the delay.

I have done the upgrade now. This is the result:

geir@coelacanth:~$ sudo cat /proc/asound/cards && tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat && lspci -nv Password:
0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
                     VIA 8235 with VT1616i at 0xc400, irq 5
Mixers:
0: ICEnsemble VT1616i
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3123
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b091
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e4000000-e7ffffff
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:0a.0 0607: 1180:0476 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 20000000-21fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 22000000-23fff000
        I/O window 0: 00001000-000010ff
        I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0a.1 0607: 1180:0476 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 24000000-25fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 26000000-27fff000
        I/O window 0: 00001800-000018ff
        I/O window 1: 00001c00-00001cff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0d.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
        Subsystem: 1106:3044
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea00a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        I/O ports at b000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at b400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at b800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 82) (prog-if 20)
        Subsystem: 1106:3104
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea00b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3177
        Subsystem: 1106:aa01
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:...

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Geir Ergoy (taraxacum) wrote :

I just tried the latest CD, (this time, NOT alternate). It does the same thing, even when running live! It stutters, almost like a record with a scratch. Sometimes it will skip a fragment of a second, sometimes it will repeat. MP3s work much better tham system sounds. System sounds can go on for up to five minutes. The computer hangs while the sound is playing, but works perfect afterwards. MP3s are absolutely hearable, but there is a skip around every minute or so. Annoying, but not cruel.

It is still the same PC as mentioned i post #1.
I hopeyou can fix this. It's only in UBUNTU. I haven't tried Kubuntu, Xubuntu and such. But others work fine.

I will temporarily change distro until Ubuntu works again. I don't like that... :-( Maybe Kanotix will do the trick. But I don't understand what Ubuntu does wrong. The sound is definitely there, but it stutters. Such a weird problem, and without error messages. It happens regardless which mixer (ALSA, OSS, aRts) I use.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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Geir Ergoy (taraxacum) wrote : Re: [Bug 54988] Re: Sound echoes, after upgrade.

Sorry, I don't know. The computer is currently disassembled and stashed
away. I am in the navy, and haven't had time to spend on computing lately. I
do all my computing from a smartPhone.

But in a few weeks, maybe I'll get home. Then I could try out a few versions
of Ubuntu, and test sound.
I use Ubuntu on all my computers, and this Mini-ITX is the only one with
sound issues.

Which versions of Ubuntu should I test on my troublesome Mini-ITX board?
And is there any other things you vant tested out on these boards while I'm
at it?
Should i try certain commands, and paste the output? I don't know much about
what info you need to fix the problem.

On 6/5/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any
> activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for
> you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
>
> --
> Sound echoes, after upgrade.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/54988
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Geir Ergoy (taraxacum) wrote :

Sorry, I don't know. The computer is currently disassembled and stashed away. I am in the navy, and haven't had time to spend on computing lately. I do all my computing from a smartPhone.

But in a few weeks, maybe I'll get home. Then I could try out a few versions of Ubuntu, and test sound.
I use Ubuntu on all my computers, and this Mini-ITX is the only one with sound issues.

Which versions of Ubuntu should I test on my troublesome Mini-ITX board?
And is there any other things you vant tested out on these boards while I'm at it?
Should i try certain commands, and paste the output? I don't know much about
what info you need to fix the problem.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Hopefully you will get home soon. When you do the information requested at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems would be quite helpful. If you could test with the current development of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon, that would be great. You can find out information about Gutsy at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again!

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

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