Intel HD audio (ICH10) on P5Q-E: anyone got it working?

KarlisRepsons · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 229 Location: Latvia

What could be a cause of this damn thing: alsa can find, that there is Intel HD audio, snd-hda-intel can be loaded, but alsamix gives me 1 or 2 channels only and sure, no sound?!
By the way, in overall, better don't buy asus P5Q-E!

KarlisRepsons · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 229 Location: Latvia

HW looks like
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller

Magnum_ · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 61

It works here, sort of less... I cant get the optical output to work, tried about everything. Some other people seem to be struggling with it as well :s

danomac · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:42 am Post subject:

I've been trying to get the optical out working as well. The problem is I can't figure out what version of ALSA is used in the kernel, which doesn't help me much.

Edit: I don't think there's support for the optical out. I'm going back to a trusty old soundblaster.

swimmer · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

swimmer · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:

And it just works for me without any hazzle ...

danomac · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject:

I mean the actual version of ALSA in the kernel (1.0.18, 1.0.17, etc.) as I heard it might work in a newer version. Alas, alsa-driver-9999 wouldn't compile. I have a new ALC883 ICH10 controller - there doesn't seem to be any support for it.

I gave up and put the trusty 'ol sound blaster card back in - it has an optical out that works.

I know it's not working, the optical light isn't even lighting up. The ALSA website layout is pretty poor, I can't figure out how to search for a specific chip.

KarlisRepsons · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 229 Location: Latvia

In fact, I am still in a complete silence over in here.

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Is because I left only generic support for Intel HDA in 2.6.27 kernel, but previously with .25 I had enabled everything in there and it didn't work. Alsa list is voiceless for me as well, maybe swimmer or someone else knows how to find out what is wrong? How to know, which codec is necessary for my HW? I just have no idea at the moment.

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6780

pjw.roudier · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2008 Posts: 4 Location: Cergy, France

On a P5Q with the same audio device, it works provided I enable the Realtek-HD audio codec, otherwise no audio channels appear.
Other difference: alsa and the drivers are built in the kernel.

I only have problem with kmix which incorrectly labels some channels (there are 2 fronts !) but alsamixer works like a charm.

Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller

Kernel: 2.6.28 gentoo-sources
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is not set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC is not set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0

Alsa utils v 1.0.19

danomac · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject:

swimmer · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

First of all - I'd compile the drivers as modules which gives you more flexibility to change settings and try them out on the fly ...

Then I'd grab /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt and look up which module parameters could help you. My /etc/modprobe.d/options looks like this:

KarlisRepsons · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 229 Location: Latvia

Installing gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r1 brings the sound in this world... After 3 months waiting. Ugly it is: brand new and nonworking.
Not absolutely sure, if I did everything I could before .28, but, hey, theoretically I could have written my own driver, right?!

prizident · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 42

I've been using Asus P5Q-E without any issues for 4 months already. I've read the wiki page about it and configured kernel accordingly. Sound works as expected (although I never tried to use optical). Kernel 27 and 28.

KarlisRepsons · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 229 Location: Latvia

> I've read the wiki page about it
Which one?

swimmer · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

drescherjm · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:05 am Post subject:

I have an asus P5Q pro and

prizident · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 42