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sound driver crashes sometimes while playing sound

Bug #92895 reported by Nikolai on 2007-03-16
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​ linux (Ubuntu)
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​ linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

This bug already existed in Dapper, Edgy and now in the Feisty alpha, too.
The sound card is a Aureal Vortex and the used driver (I think it's the driver - could be model name, bur I don't think so) is au8820.
BUG:
A programm using sound is running, after it's closed no other app will be able to send sound to the driver.

DMESG tells this: I think this is the bug, because this appears each time it bugs...
[ 397.354794] Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail

To reproduze try playing a flv 'stolen' from youtube.com with mplayer use arrows keys a few times and soon sound driver should crash (-;

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 16 20:58:11 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux Unten 2.6.20-10-386 #2 Sun Mar 11 23:59:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

EDIT:
tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat says
Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9704

amixer says:
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Master Mono',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Center',0
  Capabilities: volume volume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: 0 - 15
  Mono: 9 [60%]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Depth',0
  Capabilities: volume volume-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: 0 - 15
  Mono: 15 [100%]
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Out Path & Mute',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'pre 3D' 'post 3D'
  Item0: 'pre 3D'
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Capture [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Capture [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Left: Capture [on]
  Front Right: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Select',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic1' 'Mic2'
  Item0: 'Mic1'
Simple mixer control 'Video',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Capture [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Left: Capture [off]
  Front Right: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 15
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-45.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 19 [61%] [-6.00dB] [off] Capture [off]
  Front Right: Playback 19 [61%] [-6.00dB] [off] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mono Output Select',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mix' 'Mic'
  Item0: 'Mix'
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 15
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mix',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Front Left: Capture [off]
  Front Right: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mix Mono',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Front Left: Capture [off]
  Front Right: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]

lspci -nv says:
00:0d.0 0401: 12eb:0001 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: 122d:1002
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 20
        Memory at dffc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
        I/O ports at e400 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
should be the sound card, because lspci without -nv says about 00:0d:0: Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 02)

asoundconf list says:
Names of available sound cards:
au8820

cat /etc/asound.conf ~/.asoundrc* no such file or directory.

cat /proc/interupts says:
  0: 612346 IO-APIC-edge timer
  1: 4483 IO-APIC-edge i8042
  6: 5 IO-APIC-edge floppy
  7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
  8: 3 IO-APIC-edge rtc
  9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
 12: 4 IO-APIC-edge i8042
 14: 23513 IO-APIC-edge ide0
 15: 21523 IO-APIC-edge ide1
 16: 2820 IO-APIC-fasteoi hp100
 17: 48907 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4
 18: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1
 19: 217936 IO-APIC-fasteoi nvidia
 20: 1119 IO-APIC-fasteoi au8820
NMI: 0

See original description
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the output requested at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems ? Thanks in advance.

Nikolai (niko4jesus) wrote :

Using google I found:
http://<email address hidden>/msg09647.html
saying:
"so i looked up the pci register fix put the line "install snd-au8830 /sbin/setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff ; insmod snd-au8830" in my modules.conf and everything worked fine."
I'm not sure if this really works, because I had no /etc/modules.conf . Now I do (-;

description: updated
Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2007-03-19
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
assignee: brian-murray → ubuntu-audio
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
nine (niin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

It unfortunately appears that this bug is not yet resolved. Would it be possible to test whether issue still exist in the Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS release?

If so, the Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Alpha2 is also scheduled for release today. It will appear at the following when available: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha2 . It contains the actively developed 2.6.26 Ubuntu kernel. It would be great if you could test this upcoming release via a LiveCD and verify if the issue still exists. If so, please include the appropriate debugging information as outlined at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems . Thanks in advance.

Changed in linux:
status: New → Incomplete
Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

Nikolai (niko4jesus) wrote : Re: [Bug 92895] Re: sound driver crashes sometimes while playing sound

I'd love to help. But I don't have this computer arround anymore, nor
the sound card. So I'm very sorry an I hope you'll find some other guy
using it...
> The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the
> upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would
> appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel.
> There are one of two ways you should be able to test:
>
> 1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-
> image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and
> test.
>
> --or--
>
> 2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer
> 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4.
> Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced.
> You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.
>
> Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the
> bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please
> open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the
> 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please
> specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26
> kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.
>
> ** Tags added: cft-2.6.27
>
>

Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Thanks for the update Nikolai. However, since you are the original bug reporter and you no longer have the hardware available to test I'm going to close this report for now. If anyone else subscribed here has the same hardware and is able to reproduce the issue and subsequently test the 2.6.27 kernel that would be great. If the issue reamains with 2.6.27, please feel free to then reopen this report by setting the status back to "New". Thanks.

Changed in linux:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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