[Meta-bug] Missing speaker and/or internal mic port

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

The "analog output" and "analog speaker" ports both get removed due to subset elimination. This is because the kernel interface does not expose any hint that there is anything else but a headphone attached.

I wonder what the best way to attack this problem is. We could either make a separate profile/path for these devices, or try to make up a generic solution somehow.

FYI from my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop: Mine is dual boot with 10.04.3 and Precise 12.04 Beta2. In Precise, analog is not available for selection. In Lucid 10.04.3, only Analog shows in System->Preferences->Sound. (choose a device to configure shows only one choice which is "Internal Audio.. 1 output...Analog Stereo Output".

So has any one considered handling this new problem that appears only in Precise, in the same manner that Lucid Lynx deals with the absence of hardware digital audio?

Went through the duplicates, these SSIDs were found:
1028:01bd
1028:01b5
1028:01d4
The bug report from LarryJ is missing SSID information (LarryJ, could you please attach alsa-info information according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ?)

It is probably easiest to create separate profile/paths for this issue, at least at this point.

But let me also ask you: do you also have the same problem for input, i e, you have an internal mic that does not show up when your mic is not connected? If so, maybe this should be fixed at the same time.

The Inspiron 6400 has no internel mic.
I have attached a little video that shows what happens when I plugin an external mic.

It shows up If it gets pluged in but as it seem audio controls don't work.
If I restart the audio settings the controls stark working.

I hope this information is helpful.

This bug: Id 1028:01bd, Inspiron 6400: No internal mic.
Bug 983680: Id 1028:01b5, No internal mic.
Bug 984991: Id 1028:01c2, Latitude 620. Has internal mic.
Bug 987271: No info
Bug 989173: Same as this bug
Bug 990180: Id 1028:01d4, Latitude D520. Has internal mic.
Bug 993175: Same as this bug

Patch against git head. Will backport soon.

@Ach1m, about comment #18, that's helpful, but a separate bug - could you file another bug report against gnome-control-center and attach your video, and hopefully the right person will get to it? Thanks!

my mic. works fine.

could you please inform us about the backported package or packages when they are ready.

REF: David Henninson

"The bug report from LarryJ is missing SSID information (LarryJ, could you please attach alsa-info information according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ?)"

David: See alsa-info.txt attached.

Also when Precise first boots to the login screen, I hear the drum sound. From then on, no sounds are emitted from speaker. And again, this laptop is dual boot with 10.04.4 and 12.04. The laptop sound hardware works fine when booted into 10.04.4

I am not sure, but I believe this laptop does not have a built in mike. Only a jack for an external mike. And that input/choice never shows up in sound connections dialog. HTH de Larry

@David Henningsson, thanks for your suggestion. I filled Bug 994066.

after installing some updates, now I can't login to unity, I forcefully login to unity 2D. I see these errors in the syslog.

May 8 01:03:04 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
May 8 01:03:04 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="platform-snd_virmidi.0" card_name="alsa_card.platform-snd_virmidi.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
May 8 01:03:04 keivan-laptop acpid: client 1150[0:0] has disconnected
May 8 01:03:08 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
May 8 01:03:08 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="platform-snd_virmidi.0" card_name="alsa_card.platform-snd_virmidi.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
May 8 01:03:29 keivan-laptop acpid: client connected from 1150[0:0]
May 8 01:03:29 keivan-laptop acpid: 1 client rule loaded
May 8 01:06:30 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
May 8 01:06:31 keivan-laptop acpid: client 1150[0:0] has disconnected
May 8 01:06:31 keivan-laptop acpid: client connected from 16248[0:0]
May 8 01:06:31 keivan-laptop acpid: 1 client rule loaded
May 8 01:06:31 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="platform-snd_virmidi.0" card_name="alsa_card.platform-snd_virmidi.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
May 8 01:06:31 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
May 8 01:06:31 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[2276]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="platform-snd_virmidi.0" card_name="alsa_card.platform-snd_virmidi.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop rtkit-daemon[2278]: Successfully made thread 16429 of process 16429 (n/a) owned by '104' high priority at nice level -11.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop rtkit-daemon[2278]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 2 users.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop rtkit-daemon[2278]: Successfully made thread 16435 of process 16429 (n/a) owned by '104' RT at priority 5.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop rtkit-daemon[2278]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 2 users.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop rtkit-daemon[2278]: Successfully made thread 16436 of process 16429 (n/a) owned by '104' RT at priority 5.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop rtkit-daemon[2278]: Supervising 6 threads of 2 processes of 2 users.
May 8 01:06:33 keivan-laptop pulseaudio[16429]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Fai...

I've uploaded a patched version of pulseaudio. If anyone wants to try it:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dtl131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

@Dave, many thanks for the effort! I'm currently at UDS so I'm a bit busy with discussions all day this week (and some of next week also).

I'm also very grateful for your patch. However, I should inform you that it just worsen the situation. Installing the new pulseaudio, I have now no out put sound. Inserting the headphone jack no longer help me to fix the problem. In the output section of pulseaudio I can see just one option named "dummy output".

Please inform me if you need more info.

I apologise if this is not helpful here, but......

I had this exact issue on a Dell D620 (with STAC9200) after installing 12.04; Drums on startup, but then only a Digital S/PDIF available)

I found this workaround from a search, which in my case fixes the speakers, but breaks the headphones(!).

Edit
 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

and add the following line to the end: -
 options snd-hda-intel model=gateway-m4

reboot.

I encountered this recently on my Dell Inspiron 6400, when (after updating to Precise) I checked the System Sound Settings. It only showed the Digital S/PDIF and when I played with it the sound stopped. I noticed it was only effecting my user (ie. not Guest), so I removed ~/.pulse (after backing it up of course) and restarted. Sound returned for my user account.

This workaround I believe resets the User's configuration for the Sound Setting to the default channel (Analogue output) and didn't require any global changes.

I look forward to someone addressing the real issue of why the Sound Setting doesn't show the right channels and finding a fix.

Here is an intermediate workaround:

For those of you who are missing a speaker port, edit /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf and comment out all lines that start with "required-any".

For those of you who are missing an internal mic port, edit /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf
 and comment out all lines that start with "required-any".

It is important that you comment out (or remove) all those lines, if you leave one behind, it won't work.

After the change, you can either execute "pulseaudio -k" or reboot for the changes to take effect.

Should the recommendation in comment #32 not work, please report back and add an pulseaudio verbose log ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log ). Thanks!

Recommendation in comment #32 works for me. Thanks.

Works for me too. Thank you

2012/5/11 Keivan Moradi <email address hidden>

> Recommendation in comment #32 works for me. Thanks.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (983680).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946232
>
> Title:
> [Dell Inspiron (MM061, MXC051), SigmaTel STAC9200] Missing speaker
> port
>
> Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> I have an DELL Inspiron 6400. As it seems ubuntu precise beta1 thinks it
> has a digital ouput. In the audio settings it says Play sound through:
> »Digital Output (S/PDIF)«
>
> As you can see there →
> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins6400/en/om/specs.htm#wp1054816
> it has no S/PDIF output.
>
> The audio Settings doesn't let me change the mode.
> Sometime the system sets the mode to »Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output« but
> the drop-down list menu is grayed out so I can't change it.
>
> If I plug in and out my headphones the system changes the mode to
> »Analog Stereo Output«
> and I can hear Sound again.
>
> If you need more Information please let me know.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
> ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: i386
> ArecordDevices:
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> AudioDevicesInUse:
> USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /dev/snd/controlC0: achim 2281 F.... pulseaudio
> Card0.Amixer.info:
> Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xefebc000 irq 43'
> Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9200'
> Components : 'HDA:83847690,102801bd,00102201
> HDA:14f12bfa,14f100c3,00090000'
> Controls : 14
> Simple ctrls : 7
> Date: Sun Mar 4 11:14:53 2012
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386
> (20120301)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: alsa-driver
> Symptom: audio
> Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:Intel
> successful
> Symptom_Card: Eingebautes Audio - HDA Intel
> Symptom_Jack: Black SPDIF Out, Rear
> Symptom_PulsePlaybackTest: PulseAudio playback test successful
> Symptom_Type: No sound at all
> Title: [MM061, SigmaTel STAC9200, Black SPDIF Out, Rear] No sound at all
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> dmi.bios.date: 06/13/2007
> dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: A17
> dmi.board.name: 0KD882
> dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.chassis.type: 8
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA17:bd06/13/2007:svnDellInc.:pnMM061:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0KD882:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
> dmi.product.name: MM061
> dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
> ---
> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
> ...

Ok, I'm back on track after having been on travel for UDS and some holiday. I figured out what was wrong with my patch in comment #20, and I've uploaded a version of PulseAudio for testing to my pulseaudio testing ppa: https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/pulseaudio-testing

Please test and report back whether pulseaudio from this ppa resolves your problem or not. Thanks!

The workaround of comment #32 is working for me.
I have an "dell Inspiron 6400".
As requested in the new bug description I have attached my alsa-info.

workaround #32 works for me but previous version of the patch do not. The requested “alsa-info” is created when that workaround is active. I have not tried the new patch yet. However, I'm going to do that soon and I would report back soon.

Workaround from #32 is working for me, too. Here you can find the Alsa Information: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a681603585b44580ec0b2b110bdf1f036405abc5

Pulseaudio from your ppa is NOT working for me.

btw: If I want to downgrade the packages back to the ubuntu versions with ppa-purge, it wants to remove packages like adobe-reader etc. as well. Can I keep all packages and just downgrade pulseaudio?

@Matthias, thanks, your id was new but has now been added to my device list.

As for ppa-purge, that sounds like a bug in ppa-purge/apt/dpkg, or something like that. Maybe you can work around it by reinstalling ubuntu-desktop (or similar package if you run another flavour of ubuntu) after purging?

The new patch do not work for me either; even when the suggested workaround in the comment #32 is active. I'm going to purg the ppa.

@Keivan, hmm, it should have been working for you with pulseaudio from my ppa. Could you supply a pulseaudio verbose log ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) with my ppa installed? Thanks!

Btw, it is possibly so that after having installed pulseaudio from my ppa, you have to reboot for the changes to take effect. Just restarting pulseaudio will not be enough.

Also after running purge-ppa, you would have to reboot to get back to a clean state.

I've updated my ubuntu with everything available from your ppa. You were right: after restart everything is working as it should be. However, the only problem exist at the moment is that there is no S/PDIF output on my Inspiron 6400 (or so called Inspiron 1505). alsa-info is attached.

Regarding the ppa-purge problem: I tried to downgrade manually via apt-get install pkg=version but the error persists.
e.g. apt-get install libpulse-mainloop-glib0=1:1.1-0ubuntu15 tries to remove the 32bit libraries and adobe-reader: adobereader-deu ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386

Any solution? Otherwise I will remove it as shown and reinstall it.

Pushed a new version (1.1-0ubuntu15.1~diwicppa2) to my pulseaudio-testing ppa with all devices added so far. Hopefully it won't take too many hours to build.

btw: On Dell XPS L501x only internal mic is not working, anything else is fine.

Also have the problem with the internal microphone not appearing on a Sony Vaio VGN-SR21M. The workaround in comment #32 worked and the internal mic is now visible and active.

I uploaded the Alsa info of this machine at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=07df4de221b560a623917fd9f3481c80b64949ff

The internal microphone is missing from my Acer Aspire 1810TZ and the workaround of comment #32 restores it in the sound settings dialog.
However, to make the microphone effectively work, I have to unlock the input channels with pavucontrol and set them to different levels, as described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/449855/comments/41 (not only for skype, but for other applications also).

With latest PPA everything is working fine "out-of-the-box". Thanks.

David, I have a Lenovo K330 with
can't-get-webcam-mike-or-jack-mike-to-work problem.

I cannot follow your instruction because I am, though computer literate,
and ignoramus with linux. Will you please explain how to add your
pulseaudio testing ppa? Don't know what ppa means or is. Give me the
tool and command to use. Does it have to do with an apt command, and if
so, does the package manager or update tool have anything to do with it?

People won't ever ask you such dumb questions if you give a tidbit of
orientation in your instructions.

Thanks.

--
*Bob Hurt*
2460 Persian Drive #70, Clearwater, FL 33763-1925
(727) 669-5511 http://bobhurt.com

On 05/20/2012 10:19 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
> Ok, I'm back on track after having been on travel for UDS and some
> holiday. I figured out what was wrong with my patch in comment #20, and
> I've uploaded a version of PulseAudio for testing to my pulseaudio
> testing ppa: https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/pulseaudio-testing
>
> Please test and report back whether pulseaudio from this ppa resolves
> your problem or not. Thanks!
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> ==== Read me first ====
>
> If you're suffering from one of the following problems:
>
> - 1) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your headphones into the
> + 1) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your headphones into the
> designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Headphones" device correctly shown,
> but when you unplug it, there is no "Speaker" device shown, even though
> you have internal speakers on your computer.
>
> - 2) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your external microphone
> + 2) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your external microphone
> into the designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Microphone" (or similar)
> device correctly shown, but when you unplug it, there is no "Internal
> Mic" device shown, even though you have an internal mic on your
> computer.
>
> If so, please try the workaround in comment #32. IF AND ONLY IF that is
> working for you, please attach alsa info (see
> - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) to this bug. I'll try to
> - include it in a list of devices that we have to manually enable and
> - release it as an update to 12.04.
> + https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) to this bug, together with the
> + name of your machine (e g "Dell Latitude D620"). I'll try to include it
> + in a list of devices that we have to manually enable and release it as
> + an update to 12.04.
>
> Thanks! - and sorry for causing the bug in the first place :-/
>
> // David Henningsson
>
> ====
>
> I have an DELL Inspiron 6400. As it seems ubuntu precise beta1 thinks it
> has a digital ouput. In the audio settings it says Play sound through:
> »Digital Output (S/PDIF)«
>
> As you can see there ? http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins6400/en/om/specs.htm#wp1054816
> it has no S/PDIF output.
>
> The audio Settings doesn't let me change the mode.
> Sometime the system sets the mode to »Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output« but
> the drop-down list menu is grayed out so I can't change it.
>
> If I plug i...

PS. You might also explain what to do if it doesn't work, like how to
remove the ppa.

Bob Hurt

On 05/20/2012 10:19 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
> Ok, I'm back on track after having been on travel for UDS and some
> holiday. I figured out what was wrong with my patch in comment #20, and
> I've uploaded a version of PulseAudio for testing to my pulseaudio
> testing ppa: https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/pulseaudio-testing
>
> Please test and report back whether pulseaudio from this ppa resolves
> your problem or not. Thanks!
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> ==== Read me first ====
>
> If you're suffering from one of the following problems:
>
> - 1) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your headphones into the
> + 1) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your headphones into the
> designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Headphones" device correctly shown,
> but when you unplug it, there is no "Speaker" device shown, even though
> you have internal speakers on your computer.
>
> - 2) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your external microphone
> + 2) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your external microphone
> into the designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Microphone" (or similar)
> device correctly shown, but when you unplug it, there is no "Internal
> Mic" device shown, even though you have an internal mic on your
> computer.
>
> If so, please try the workaround in comment #32. IF AND ONLY IF that is
> working for you, please attach alsa info (see
> - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) to this bug. I'll try to
> - include it in a list of devices that we have to manually enable and
> - release it as an update to 12.04.
> + https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) to this bug, together with the
> + name of your machine (e g "Dell Latitude D620"). I'll try to include it
> + in a list of devices that we have to manually enable and release it as
> + an update to 12.04.
>
> Thanks! - and sorry for causing the bug in the first place :-/
>
> // David Henningsson
>
> ====
>
> I have an DELL Inspiron 6400. As it seems ubuntu precise beta1 thinks it
> has a digital ouput. In the audio settings it says Play sound through:
> »Digital Output (S/PDIF)«
>
> As you can see there ? http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins6400/en/om/specs.htm#wp1054816
> it has no S/PDIF output.
>
> The audio Settings doesn't let me change the mode.
> Sometime the system sets the mode to »Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output« but
> the drop-down list menu is grayed out so I can't change it.
>
> If I plug in and out my headphones the system changes the mode to »Analog Stereo Output«
> and I can hear Sound again.
>
> If you need more Information please let me know.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
> ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: i386
> ArecordDevices:
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware De...

@bobhurt,
First, if you're having problems with *both* webcam mic and external mic jack, you're not having this bug. These instructions do not apply to you.

Second, about installing from ppas, https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware
about removing a ppa: http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/01/ppa-purge-magic-undo-buttton.html
ppa means "Personal Package Archive"

Comment #32 fixed: MSI X360 (http://www.msi.com/product/nb/X360.html)

Thank you very much!!

Commenting out all the "required lines" as suggested in comment 32 successfully restored "Internal Audio Analog Stereo Duplex" choice to my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop in System Preferences Sound Hardware dialog. Also info.txt attached.

Fixed FUJITSU LIFEBOOK A530

Recommendation in comment #32 works for me (Dell Vostro 1710)
Thanks

On 05/22/2012 05:44 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
> @bobhurt,
> First, if you're having problems with *both* webcam mic and external mic jack, you're not having this bug. These instructions do not apply to you.
>
> Second, about installing from ppas, https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware
> about removing a ppa: http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/01/ppa-purge-magic-undo-buttton.html
> ppa means "Personal Package Archive"
>

David, you are so cool. Hope you enjoyed the time off. Thanks for what
you do - trying to make linux work ever better on all the weird hardware
around.

I installed and diddled with the Pulse Audio volume control till I got
the webcam mike working a few days ago. Now with both Pulse Audio
volume control and ALSA mixer I cannot get anything to record,

I have a Bose cell phone head set with ear muffs and speaker built into
a call disconnect button in the cord near the headset. I plugged that
into the 3.5 mm mike plug into the jack on the front of my computer, and
THAT did not work. I presume it should have, but who the hell knows
with such terrible computer instructions these days?

I don't use the mikes that much, but when I need them for skype or
recording, I just go back to Windows where everything works perfectly .

Do I need to tell you about my feeling of frustration and exasperation
with this ridiculous problem? I guess not.

the Gnome Alsa mixer shows a checkbox for ATIR6xx HDMI (I have the HDMI
output NOT connected to anything), and a bunch of volume controls for
Realtek ALC892 (master, headphone, pcm, front, front mi, surround,
center, lfe, side, line, capture, rear mic. Maybe those mean something
to you. I have a simple stereo speaker setup connected to the rear panel.

I'll try your suggested change, and if doesn't work, I'll try to
uninstall it.

I think the problem is something much more fundamental, like UBUNTU
installer does not correctly identify the sound controller.

If you have any other suggestions I'm all eyes. My microphone setup is
utterly useless now. Nothing works at all. Fortunately, I can play and
hear movies and music.
--
*Bob Hurt*
2460 Persian Drive #70, Clearwater, FL 33763-1925
(727) 669-5511 http://bobhurt.com

My precise issue was that input devices aren't shown in the Sound Settings dialog that's used in Unity – and that the input volume was set extremely low. Using pavucontrol and simply increasing the Microphone input volume was sufficient.

It's also worth noting that this does not affect the Sound Settings dialog that's used when you login with Gnome Classic. Only with Unity/Unity2D. In my case, I have a Radeon HD 5850, which has HDMI Audio. But this audio interface doesn't have an input. I suspect that might be relevant? I do have to select the correct audio interface first in Gnome Classic. That's not possible in Unity.

My hardware profile is here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e5ce6b4cc5f814a0b247865d5a5322b706c0ab6e.

Thanks to everyone so far for submitting their IDs! As the machines keep pouring in, I'm going to wait at least day or two more before trying to push it to Ubuntu.

@Patrick, were you missing an internal mic, a speaker, or something else? From your alsa-info it does not look like you would be needing this fix, but I could be wrong.

@Jo-erlend, the device (HDMI as well as mic) only shows up when you actually have it connected, and for HDMI, you need to activate the screen as well. If you have done this and still not see a device, please file a separate bug (with the "ubuntu-bug audio" command).

@bobhurt, I would be surprised if pushing a 4-pin headset into a mic jack (i e not a headset jack), would work in any operating system, I thought that was physically impossible. Maybe Realtek drivers do some magic we're unfamiliar with.

My internal microphone is missing. It works with the workaround (remove require-any from the config file)

Sony Vaio VPC-W115XG (atom netbook)

Alsa-info attached.

Dell Inspiron 1011 is also affected: internal microphone is missing and the workaround restores it.

The workaround in Comment #32 worked for me also

Dell Latitude D420

Interestingly the audio did work on the first boot. Only after one of the following did it break; installing Spotify, Adobe Flash or running the updates....

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f7c04270f2882af67ec33b414eec92fffffe7cf7

Well, I will add more information in hope it will help.

I run Precise with latest updates on Acer Aspire One AO532h. In Natty 11.04 the mic is working fine, both the internat, and the external when I connect it.

In precise I have no mic. Nor internal either external when I connect it.

It is a severe regression in my case because I am sharing the comp with non tech people and I dont know how to defend linux to be readdy for everyday use when all of a sudden in a newer version the micro does not work. No Skype calls, etc..

.... just to give You a hint of a real time situation..

Here is the output of alsa-info.sh

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a6f594c4ee64cbbf4373204f6f60c2e2bc5c0efa

Hello all!!

I have solved sound problems by doing:

I added in:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

file this line in the end:
options snd-hda-intel model=generic

This solved all problems!!!!

Some corrections to recent comment.

This solved problems that there is no sound in speakers, but internal microphone don't work.
Sound Recorder records sound, but no sound when played recorded content.

@girtszel
your solution is not a solution for me.
After added the line "options snd-hda-intel model=generic" to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and reboot
no more speakers or microphone working and a lot of window bug report !
The workaround #32 is the solution for me.

Please don't try model=generic, it has nothing to do with this bug.

Comment #32 workaround displays internal mic for Asus EeePC 904HA (somewhat oddly, the DMI information in the BIOS reports the model as 1000H). Thanks for tracking this down!

Alsa-info uploaded to: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=58e6425fc7ceca54f81b22026cbb69cb5bc0a169

it is bug of module-switch-on-available port

For desktop computer which have front mic , rear mic, line in , CD and Stereo Mix

In Ubuntu 12.04 unity , only input souce which has jack plugged is showed in sound preference and those fixed port : Internal Mic, ac97 front panel jacks without jack detect , CD and Stereo Mix does not appear for user selection

For desktop , recording is completely unusable when there is no jack plugged into, it switch to other audio devices (e.g. Web Cam)

e.g. when you unplug mic from rear jack and plug into front mic or Line in, it automatically switch to other sound card since there is no plugged jack after you uplugged

Beside, some user may use the special feature of the Line in jack, the plugin of Line in does not mean that the user is intended to use Line in as Input Source, he may just connect the output of tv card to blue jack so that he can use the analog mixer to output the tv audio to the green jack

comment #32 worked fine !

Without changing anything in /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf, I have "Analog Output" and "Headphones" available as ports for output devices in pavucontrol (I'm running kubuntu). If I comment out every "required-any" and restart pulseaudio, I have "Speakers" and "Headphones". But the output port does not automatically change when I plug/unplug the headphones, so I think jack detection does not work on my computer.

My PC has Line In, Mic and Headset at the front + Mic, Line Out, Line In, Side, Rear and C/Sub at the back. According to the product specifications, it has Integrated High Definition audio: Realtek ALC 888S chipset, Supports up to 7.1 audio channels.

pavucontrol offers a list of profiles under "Configuration":

  Analog Stereo Duplex
  Analog Stereo Output
  Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input
  Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output
  Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input
  Analog Surround 4.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input
  Analog Surround 5.1 Output
  Analog Surround 4.1 Output
  Analog Surround 7.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input
  Analog Surround 5.0 Output + Analog Stereo Input
  Analog Surround 4.0 Output + Analog Stereo Input
  Analog Surround 7.1 Output
  Analog Surround 5.0 Output
  Analog Surround 4.0 Output
  Analog Stereo Input

pavucontrol offers a "Headphones" port only when the "Analog Stereo Duplex/Output" is used.

Is it possible to have a profile with all available ports (front + rear)? Is there any chance to get jack detection working?

Alsa-info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=037e2b7111880f65326517f9cb66ec3a52d8dac5

Thanks!

Input device (mic) empty on Asus A6M - Ubutu 12.04 64bit kernel 3.2.0-25-generic

Help me only the comment #32 and complet restart

@Christian Schürer-Waldheim: You don't seem to have internal speakers - different bug/problem

@Raymond: To move forward PulseAudio needs a way to figure out that the machine actually has a speaker or internal mic. That's the problem today. Figuring out how to do that in the best way is the next task on my list, as the previous week has shown me this is a far more common problem than I anticipated.

@Patrick Fratczak: I don't see any Internal Mic at all, so I doubt the internal mic will start to actually work with this workaround installed.

Thanks to everyone else, if I've picked up your IDs it should be in the list in the description.

I'm drawing a line here - while there is likely more machines out there, I don't want to keep the users of existing machines with broken internal mics either.

I'm currently building it for the development release ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/pulseaudio/1:1.1-0ubuntu16 ) and once that has completed successfully I will prepare an SRU.

Ok, in proposed queue, and waiting for review by the ubuntu-sru team.

The proposed solution is not working for me. My analog-output-speaker.conf can be found here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1015875/ (I'm not sure if I did it right. I am unable to use my laptop speakers.

My alsa information can be found here: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5d1ed547bf6f0d3ae795a9b60c4ba2e82924a686

Should I open a new bug about my problem?

@DavidW617, please open a separate bug. Thanks!

Hello Achim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pulseaudio into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

After today pulseaudio updates (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1) again no input device show (mic) on Asus A6M - Ubutu 12.04 64bit. Previously help me only the comment #32

Dear Friends,
Please add Acer Aspire One D250.
The workaround succeeded.
Here's the alsa-info.txt.
Thanks and Blessings,
Shahar

@vadimo, since your alsa-info was never submitted (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) your ID did not make it in the list of affected machines. Sorry.

I can confirm that the fix works. I also tested the microphone and headphone jack.
They both worked as I would expect.

pulseaudio:
  Installiert: 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1
  Kandidat: 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.1-0ubuntu15 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

What is not correct is that I see a digital output that my notebook doesn't has.
That is probably part of another bug.

So in the end I have to say THANK YOU for fixing this bug.

So, here is my alsainfo from Asus A6M laptop 12.04:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=789eba0fcb04bb7429d1e29e7e1bbc41b871c6d5

Hi,
In my computer, in sound-settings the list sound-card out is empty. If I plug-in a headphones, the list is empty too.
With command alsamixer in terminal the sound cards are:
HDA Intel, Realtek ALC861, master volume is 00 not-activate, PCM volume is ok, if I push F6 I can select 0 HDA Intel in list:
- (predeterminado)
0 HDA intel
introduzca el nombre del dispositivo...

If I follow the #32 comment, then there is a sound card in sound-settings GUI, I can change volume but it don't play.

What I could do?

Fix from precise-proposed is working for me

@gmolleda, please file a separate bug.

@matthias, achim, thanks for testing the proposed repository!

The pulseaudio package in precise-proposed solves the internal microphone bug in the Acer Aspire 1810TZ.
Thank you David!

Hi,

I have a Fujistu S7110 and the workaround (comment #32) did not work for me. I have put the log attached to this post.

Best regards,

David Conway

Acer Aspire One D260-A. The bypass did not work, but I waited and have just tested with the proposed new pulseaudio package. The internal microphone is still not working. I will post alsa-info to my original bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/996611. If you agree that my bug is NOT a duplicate of this one, would you please unmark it?

Thanks,

Brian

@Brian, have a look at bug 1002978, maybe you are affected by that also.

Just to confirm that the package in the proposed repository works great on
my Dell Inspiron 630m
Thank you!

2012/6/4 Renzo Bagnati <email address hidden>

> @Brian, have a look at bug 1002978, maybe you are affected by that also.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (983680).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946232
>
> Title:
> [Meta-bug] Missing speaker and/or internal mic port
>
> Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Precise:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> ==== Read me first ====
>
> If you're suffering from one of the following problems:
>
> 1) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your headphones into
> the designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Headphones" device correctly
> shown, but when you unplug it, there is no "Speaker" device shown,
> even though you have internal speakers on your computer.
>
> 2) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your external
> microphone into the designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Microphone"
> (or similar) device correctly shown, but when you unplug it, there is
> no "Internal Mic" device shown, even though you have an internal mic
> on your computer.
>
> If so, please try the workaround in comment #32. IF AND ONLY IF that
> is working for you, please attach alsa info (see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) to this bug, together with
> the name of your machine (e g "Dell Latitude D620"). I'll try to
> include it in a list of devices that we have to manually enable and
> release it as an update to 12.04.
>
> Thanks! - and sorry for causing the bug in the first place :-/
>
> // David Henningsson
>
> ====
>
> The following machines are known to be affected (no more alsa-info
> needed) :
>
> # Acer AOA150
> # Acer Aspire 1810TZ
> # Acer AOD260, AO532h
> # Dell MXC051
> # Dell Inspiron 6400 and E1505
> # Dell Latitude D620
> # Dell Latitude D820
> # Dell Latitude D520
> # Dell Latitude D420
> # Dell Inspiron 1525
> # Dell Inspiron 1011
> # Dell XPS 14 (L401X)
> # Dell XPS 15 (L501X)
> # Dell XPS 15 (L502X)
> # Asus 904HA (1000H)
> # Asus T101MT
> # Sony Vaio VGN-SR21M
> # Sony Vaio VPC-W115XG
> # Fujitsu Lifebook A530
> # Toshiba A200
> # MSI X360
> # Lenovo 3000 Y410
>
> ====
>
> ==== SRU Justification ===
> [Impact]
> Several laptops (see above list) are missing mostly internal mics, but
> sometimes also speakers in the Sound Settings / PulseAudio. This leads to
> an inability to control volume for these devices, and often not being able
> to use them at all.
>
> [Development Fix]
> Fixed by 0621-Add-special-profiles-for-some-laptops-missing-speake.patch
> which adds quirks for the above devices, telling them to manually add
> "speakers" and "internal mic" even though we can't detect them. Fix
> released in
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:1.1-0ubuntu16
>
> (A fix for the generic problem needs to be coordinated with ALSA and
> PulseAudio upstreams but I need to start that work soon to make sure
> we have a more permanent fix in Quantal later on.)
>
> [Stable Fix]
> Same fix ...

Thanks very much for your suggestion Renzo. I Tried the bypass suggested in the meta-bug 1002978 and was very pleased to discover my microphone worked again! I'll mark my individual bug as a duplicate of the inverted internal microphone one instead.

Similar issue on MSI 790GX-G65 motherboard (Realtek ALC889), the only difference is no internal input channel is showed (see bug
1003671). Fixed by workaround on comment #32, I'll test new pulsaudio package ASAP

Just for reference, the alsa-info for this motherboard are available at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=cfee7b1658ba6785bcbb0233d905bb29a74c8952

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * 0621-Add-special-profiles-for-some-laptops-missing-speake.patch:
    Fix missing internal mic and speaker not showing for some laptops
    (LP: #946232)
 -- David Henningsson <email address hidden> Wed, 30 May 2012 13:46:53 +0200

Dear David,
1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1 did not solve this for me. For information about my system, please see comment #82.

Thanks and Blessings,
Shahar

David,

The above worked,
Alsa info below

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=669022ff1a2964ab99e36a2c469da7b6ae073260
Product Name: Dell System XPS L502X

Regards,

B

workaround works for me on Sony VAIO FW11M

The just updated pulseaudio package seems to be working fine on MSI X360.

Thanks!

I have alienware m14x.

My internal mic does not show up in sound settings. Workaround in comment #32 restores expected functionality.

pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1 did solve the problem for me on Acer AO532h

Thanks!!

The workaround did not work for me. I'm running pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.1 under Xubuntu 12.04 64-bit on a Dell Vostro 1400.

In addition to missing the controls for the internal microphone and speakers, the headphone auto-detect will work upon boot-up, but will randomly start to fail (speakers and headphones both playing). Restarting pulseaudio doesn't fix it, I have to reboot. This issue only started recently (not a problem under Xubuntu 11.10/11.04, and I don't recall it happening initially after installing 12.04).

I've attached a better pulseaudio log

This was affectinng me after a recent upgrade and the commnent #32 resolved the issue.

I have looked a little more into the internal mic issue. The lack of speaker mixer is less of an issue because the headphone mixer and auto-detect mostly works.

I selected "Analog Stereo Duplex" as my audio profile and applied the fix in Comment #32, but my internal mic didn't appear. I edited the "analog-input-internal-mic.conf" and commented out the first section marked "This is a workaround". The microphone now appears, but doesn't record any audio.

I tried muting the right channel (to see if it was Bug #1002978), but it had no effect.

I have attached my ALSA info file.

Your ext mic (node 0x0e) don't support jack detect and you have two int mic (node 0x0c and 0x13)

I was left without internal mic -- the speakers worked. The fix in #32 fixed the problem.

Asus EeePC 1000HE

Thanks.

Hi!

After the "emergency" update a few weeks ago, I've been working with getting a more permanent fix upstream, so that we don't have to add quirks for every machine affected by this problem.

In essence, the long-term fixes are now committed upstream:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commit;h=80c8bfbe76869bfd6bdf3d260d316e7a32f318c3 (scheduled for Linux 3.6)
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=0621b1f99c0b5ddc7a01d261dab8e4cc5aec63c3

It would be good to have some confirmation that these patches do what they should, as I don't have any affected hardware myself. Maybe one or a few of you who are more experienced/savvy Ubuntu users could do this to test:

1) if your machine is quirked, comment out that quirk in /lib/udev/rules.d/90-pulseaudio.rules
2) install the latest dkms drivers according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS
3) download the patch, cd /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer, and apply the patch with "sudo patch -p5"
4) reboot and test.

(Tip: when finished testing, to revert step 3, you can run "sudo apt-get install pulseaudio --reinstall")

I installed the latest dkms drivers (alsa-hda-dkms) and patched analog-input-internal-mic.conf and analog-output-speaker.conf as indicated.

My internal mic shows up under inputs, but still doesn't record any sound. I have tried muting the individual left/right channels, but there is no change.

I have a "speaker" input that wasn't there before, although my system is not automatically detecting/switching between headphones and speakers - I have to manually do it in the mixer (pauvcontrol for Xubuntu). This may have always been the behavior of Ubuntu with this laptop.

@Babaei, your machine is using a model parser that I'm not sure of is correct - could you try adding the line below to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and reboot, and see if it makes a difference:

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

The latest alsa-hda-dkms and pulseaudio patches from comment #109 work well for the Aspire 1810TZ.
After removing the udev quirks, the internal microphone is showing up correctly.
Thank you, David.

@diwic, thanks for the answer. I tried inserting the line as suggested and rebooted. My microphone inputs (both the internal mics and the mic jack) disappeared entirely, with "Line In" as the only remaining option. "model=dell" was also ineffective (it had the same behaviour that I described above).

This is with the latest alsa-hda-dkms and the pulseaudio patches. I have rerun the alsa-info script and attached the results.

@babaei

your stac9228 support 8 channels, you have selected "line out" in "mic jack mode" control.

does your notebook support 5.1 by retasking mic jack and hp jack with line out jack in the user manual ?

@Raymond

My laptop does indeed support 5.1, and that is an option in the "Configuration" menu in pauvconfig (although I currently have it set for "Analog Stereo Duplex") - that option changed from "Surround 5.1" to "Surround 4.0" when I put "options snd-hda-intel model=auto" in my alsa-base.conf file and rebooted.

Currently, the mixer is showing "line in" as my only mic option (the internal mics aren't showing at all). Using alsamixer, they show up as "Capture 1", "Capture 2", etc., and enabling them has no effect. If this line is not in alsa-base.conf, the internal mics show up in the mixer, but they don't seem to capture anything.

control.5 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'Line Jack Mode'
  value 'Line Out'
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type ENUMERATED
   count 1
   item.0 'Mic In'
   item.1 'Line In'
   item.2 'Line Out'
  }
 }

can the mic jack mode enum used by pulseaudio as input source (ext mic, line in and internal mic) and you may need to disable the creation of mic jack kcontrol?

After reverting to the original alsa-base.conf, I managed to make my internal mic work through some experimenting with alsamixer. This is still using the new version of pulseaudio from the PPA, as well as the config file patches mentioned above. I am using the "Analog Stereo Duplex" configuration in pauvcontrol, which is my default mixer (since I'm using Xubuntu).

There are two internal mics being reported on my system, according to alsamixer - "Internal Mic" and "Internal Mic 1". pauvcontrol lists four possible input configurations:
1. "Analog Input/Microphone/Microphone"
2. "Analog Input/Microphone/Line In"
3. "Internal Microphone"
4. "Microphone"

It appears that "Internal Mic 1", which shows up in pauvcontrol as "Analog Input" (?), is my actual internal microphone. If I select "Internal Mic" (input option #3) in pauvcontrol, it mixes "Internal Mic" and I get no input.

If I select pauvcontrol input option #2 (used for the attached alsa-info file), alsamixer shows "Internal Mic 1" as the primary input. I tested this with Skype and it works well. If I select pauvcontrol input option #1, the microphone works, but the mixer starts automatically reducing the level (which limits the usefulness).

For the sake of completeness, I experimented using an external microphone plugged into the jack on the front of my laptop. pauvcontrol input configurations #1 and #2 did not work for the external mic. Configuration #4 worked as expected. There was no automatic selection/detection of the external microphone.

In summation, it looks like I got things working. My internal microphone is showing up as "Analog Input", or "Internal Mic 1" in alsamixer. I'm not sure what is showing up as the "Internal Mic". I am not sure if the new version of pulseaudio + the patches are having any effect.

@babaei, Thanks for reporting back. I think you should file a separate bug for this issue as "Internal Mic" vs "Internal Mic 1" has nothing to do with this bug.

Anyway, you can use hda-jack-retask (see http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2011/11/29/turn-your-mic-jack-into-a-headphone-jack/ for an introduction to this utility) to disable the non-functional internal mic, the other internal mic should then become the default internal mic.

the mic pin support impedence sense which alllow the driver which kind of jack plugged since mic has higher impedance than the other jack

Node 0x0e [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400181: Stereo
  Control: name="Mic Jack Mode", index=0, device=0
    ControlAmp: chs=0, dir=In, idx=0, ofs=0
  Control: name="Mic Phantom Jack", index=0, device=0
  Pincap 0x00001737: IN OUT Detect Trigger ImpSense
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80
  Pin Default 0x02a79130: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
    Conn = Analog, Color = Pink
    DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x22: IN VREF_GRD
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 1
     0x04r

Acer Aspire One D150.
Workaround succeeded. (thank you!)

I'm miss an internal mic port and try comment 32. My mic work now.

I believe the Acer Aspire 4810T is closely related to the already listed Acer Aspire 1810TZ. I might be jumping to conclusions, but I'd say all Acer Timeline laptops (of that generation) are affected.

The fist number in 4810T and 1810TZ refers to the screen size of the different models. And the letters at the end refer to the lapto's CPU.

It is a bit saddening to see this marked as Fix Released while my internal mic still isn't working in quantal.

This is Acer Aspire One D250 from my original comment #82 (workaround succeeded).

Is this like a manual adding of models to a list? If so, please add this one!

Thank you,
Shahar

this workaround just fix the bug of missing internal speaker and internal mic in gnome control nua as the module-switch-on-available-ports require the phantom ports of those pin complexes without jack detection

if your notebook cannot record sound due to inverted mic (lef and right channel out of phase, the workaround is use alsamixer mute either left or right channe

Was this at me? I'm quite sure that it is this bug that my netbook Aspire
One D250 is experiencing. Theworkaround did solve the missing internal mic
issue. Please release another fix :(

On 7 August 2012 18:48, Raymond <email address hidden> wrote:

> this workaround just fix the bug of missing internal speaker and
> internal mic in gnome control nua as the module-switch-on-available-
> ports require the phantom ports of those pin complexes without jack
> detection
>
>
> if your notebook cannot record sound due to inverted mic (lef and right
> channel out of phase, the workaround is use alsamixer mute either left or
> right channe
>

The internal audio ports on my SuperMicro board don't show up at all after a recent 12.04 update.
Worked earlier on 12.04.

Now no audio, no /usr/share/pulseaudio directory, ...
See launchpad 1035474 for details.

The comment #32 helps with microphone on Acer Aspire 4810TZ
My ALSA info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=114188df785d7adc99d4eb5b13523617bf152f37

The comment #32 helps with microphone on Packard bell dot m/a
My ALSA info: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=38d83a295f32ef2ed250f9d4e45926f9836d76be

Comment #32 also allows my front panel microphone to work. Self build system based on a Gigabyte M57SLI-S4.

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=69f57eadac5c60064ee353df008509eb1ebb8871

The workaround in comment #32 also helps to fix the recognition of the internal speakers on a

Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S7110.

Details:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=8088af4aae8c2eacb851b716c3738ef9f76ef3e0

Comment #32 can fix the same issue on a Dell Vostro 2420.

Mine is a Aspire one ZG5.
Thanks.

I was missing a mic jack and instructions from the comment #32 helped me fix it. My audio card is built-in the Intel HDA motherboard; my sincere thanks for that.

Do you need any additional data from my system?

Paul, your system's model, please.

That being said, this is still not fixed for my Acer Aspire One D250.

Thanks,
Shahar

Comments #128, #129, and #131 have been added, thanks.
@ferret-x: This concerns internal mics, not front panel mics. Likely there is some other problem with your front panel mic causing jack detection to fail.

Hello Achim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pulseaudio into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Okay, so for those of you who are still suffering from this bug on 12.04 with all updates installed, there is now another option:
1) Enable proposed as instructed in comment #138
2) Install the latest HDA driver according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS

Reboot and test. I would be happy if at least one person - for which this is not yet fixed - could report back and say that the above is working. This is necessary so the PulseAudio fix can be released through the normal update channels.
And if you're testing it and it's not working, please file an alsa-info so we can verify that it's really this bug you're having and nothing else.
Thanks!

+Adam Conrad, I am sorry – at the moment I have no system that is running ubuntu 12.04, so I can't test the proposed update.

I have recently installed 12.04.1 on an Acer Aspire One AOA 110 ZG5 (upgraded to 16 GB ssd -- wee works like a real computer now). Alas, I can't get the edit via #32 to do the trick. I event tried the deb file hoping I did something dumb.

In every case alasamixer comes up with mike boost 0. I push it to 100 and do the alsamixer -k trick. I get very low sound level on the internal mic. It only shows bars when I tap the case near the mike. Testing with Skype I hear a very very quiet version of my test message.

I read above in 133 that a ZG5 worked -- but not mine so far.

Wish I had better news. Any suggestions gratefully received.

Bryan

Hello, I tried to get 12.4 working on dv6265us.
Tried most stuff I could find here - nothing worked.
External (headphone jack) works (sound setting recognizes when I plugin headset
External stereo mic works too (I don't have one, but I plugged in headset - and I can see bars in pavumeter reacting to sound)
Internal - speaker and mics do not show signs of life whatever I do...

Uploaded ALSA info:
Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=ec041fb8367f5368b55a7f921f9c1a4d8c67244c

Any thoughts?

Thanks! Mitch.

Regarding #142 - sorry - false alarm - got chance to try this again yesterday.
Turns out - zif cable on that old laptop got broken.
After replacing it - both internal speakers and mic started working correctly.

Thanks, Mitch.

Mitch (or others): does that mean that the package version in precise-proposed fixed the problem? This bug needs a verification that the proposed package fixes the issue, so that the update can be made available for everyone.

Confirmed bug is fixed on my Vostro 2420.

Due to this 'verification-done' tag added, I'd like to just ask that my comment be at least addressed. I've stated twice already that my netbook still suffers from this in raring. If I'm missing something and perhaps the fix is not yet in raring or anything like that, please shed me some light. Thanks,
Shahar

@Shahar, if this is still a problem for you in raring, you're probably suffering from a different bug. Also, you never attached alsa-info correctly, so it's difficult to know if this is the case or not.

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2

---------------
pulseaudio (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * 0622-Front-headphone.patch:
    Fix "Front headphone Jack" not being picked up by PulseAudio
    (LP: #1020471)
  * 0623-resampler-Fix-volume-on-downmix-to-mono.patch:
    Fix clipping audio on downmix to mono (LP: #416190)
  * 01PulseAudio:
    Don't mute Bluetooth devices on suspend, they might remain muted
    after resume (LP: #1038084)
  * 0624-alsa-mixer-Add-Phantom-Jack-support.patch:
    This will allow us to work better with devices on the backport
    stack by making use of a Quantal kernel feature (if it exists).
    (LP: #946232)
  * 0625-alsa-mixer-Add-a-few-more-machines-to-internal-mic-w.patch:
    Add a few more machines to the internal mic whitelist
    (LP: #1076840) (LP: #1073420)
 -- David Henningsson <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:31:19 +0100

The pulseaudio (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2) update does not fixed microphone issues
in my case.
I am running updated Ubuntu 12.04.1 - 64 bits in a Sony-Vaio VPCEB23FM.
I checked that pulseaudio (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2) it was installed, but the problem with the internal microphone
still there. It was not listed in the input tab on Sound Settings,
for the other hand, it was (poorly) working on skype sound tests.

I also tried to install pavucontrol but it was not possible to fix the microphone problem
by changing settings with pavucontrol.

My audio device is Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset and
what worked for me it was the workaround pointed out on #32.

Here is the alsainfo
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=aca468e30d3d26d52eb6ed45547d9c8c7a2815ae

Thanks.

Found a fix for the Acer Aspire ZG5 AOA110 models. It involves using the uncommented microphone lines from comment #32, installing pavucontrol and using pavucontrol to max out the sound on the left for the internal microphone and mute it on the right completely. Also, it is handy to unlock before hand as for not unlocking it; that means several hours of believing something to be wrong, only to find out that the sliders are locked together; unlock them. It has to be done in combination with the uncommented lines and if it is not used then the bug will continue. That's the quickest way I've found to work around it.

Acer Aspire ZG5 AOA110 users this is my modified /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf it has to be used in combination with the pavucontrol fix. For pavucontrol is is as easy as sudo apt-get install pavucontrol, then using it from the command line, unlocking the sliders for the internal microphone, muting the right side, and sliding the left side all the way up. As a future note in skype make sure that skype is not allowed to configure the sound sources which is in the skype system settings. This includes the uncommented line for comment #32.

@Leandro,
For the new PulseAudio to improve the situation (i e, you would not have to use the #32 workaround), you need to use it in combination with the backport kernel ( linux-image-generic-lts-quantal ).

@JoeZiehmer, could you attach your alsa-info ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo ) in order for me to commit a fix upstream for future kernels?

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=afd8438c90798c134926db31b89c42d884375bcd

There you go Dave hope this can help people out.

@JoeZiehmer, thanks, it looks like it's already fixed upstream for your machine. If you try the latest DKMS drivers ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS ) and make sure "Inverted Internal Mic" is muted in alsamixer then things should work fine.

On my platform, is missing the speaker internal port and the jack port.
I tested the different workaround without success, only the HDMI output is available no analog device.

Tested with the following kernels :
vmlinuz-3.8.0-23-generic
vmlinuz-3.9.0-030900-generic

Machine : DELL XPS 14
Distribution : Ubuntu RARING

See attachment for details.

My alsa-info in attachment.

Please add this machine to the list impacted:

Malibal Veda P180HM , aka Clevo P180HM , aka Sager np8180 (other rebranded flavors of this model also exist).
RealTek ALC892 internal speakers fail to show up in sound-settings;
instead the not-plugged-in iec598 aka S/PDIF output becomes default-sink.

Using the workaround from comment#32 corrects the trouble for my hardware. I have composed a brief shell-script which I believe can be cut-n-pasted into the xterm, rather than having folks perform manual editing. Worked for me on 12.04.3 with all updates but I have only tested it on this one machine. David, or other canonical employee, if this looks useful you might consider pasting it into the intro at the top, or as an addendum to comment#32.

BEGIN_CUT_N_PASTE_BLOCK_HERE

aplay /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf

cp /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf ~/tmpUspapaos.bak
grep -v "required-any = any" /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf > ~/tmpUspapaos.conf
sudo cp ~/tmpUspapaos.conf /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf
grep "required-any = any" /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf

cp /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf ~/tmpUspapaiim.bak
grep -v "required-any = any" /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf > ~/tmpUspapaiim.conf
sudo cp ~/tmpUspapaiim.conf /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf
grep "required-any = any" /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf

ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep
pulseaudio -k
ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep

aplay /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf

FINIS_CUT_N_PASTE_BLOCK_HERE

In my particular case, the symptoms were not exactly as described, from what I can garner. I installed 12.04 from LiveUSB a couple months ago, and had no audio-playback (except in the bootloader via grub's play-command) until I had updated to 12.04.2 -- after which I was able to hear the drum-sound at the login-screen that appears immediately after boot.

However, once into the desktop, I was not able to accomplish playback. When I would open up sound-settings from the taskbar (aka "gnome-control-panel sound-nua" under the hood), the only listed internal speakers were S/PDIF output. The laptop does have an spdif-out-jack, but nothing was plugged into it. Clicking on most any of the buttons in sound-settings would cause the not-even-plugged-in spdif-out-jack to become the default audio-sink. So to be clear, I did not plug in external speakers or headphones or microphones -- there were no internal speakers in the list provided by sound-settings, from what I can tell (ever at any time).

I believe following the instructions of step#1A over here helped -- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure -- because when I executed killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse* then counted to fi...

On 10/03/2013 03:38 AM, The_Letter_J wrote:
> Please add this machine to the list impacted:
>
> Malibal Veda P180HM , aka Clevo P180HM , aka Sager np8180 (other rebranded flavors of this model also exist).
> RealTek ALC892 internal speakers fail to show up in sound-settings;
> instead the not-plugged-in iec598 aka S/PDIF output becomes default-sink.
>
> Using the workaround from comment#32 corrects the trouble for my
> hardware. I have composed a brief shell-script which I believe can be
> cut-n-pasted into the xterm, rather than having folks perform manual
> editing. Worked for me on 12.04.3 with all updates but I have only
> tested it on this one machine. David, or other canonical employee, if
> this looks useful you might consider pasting it into the intro at the
> top, or as an addendum to comment#32.

Hi The_Letter_J and thanks for your detailed answer. The script looks
handy in parts, but I don't get why you're trying to play back a
configuration file...

> In my particular case, the symptoms were not exactly as described, from
> what I can garner.

Having a look at your hardware, I notice that your bug is similar, but a
different one. In fact, just running a 3.5+ ubuntu kernel (or 3.6+
upstream kernel) fixes this bug completely, so it *must* be a different
bug. That's also why the symptoms are not exactly as described either.

In your case, you have unusual hardware: in addition to normal
headphones and stereo line out, you have 5.1 internal speakers. This
leads to unusual alsamixer names (e g "Speaker Front") which we do not
match for in PulseAudio. Fixing that means that we should add those
names in PulseAudio - but let's discuss that in a new bug instead.

> p.s. This was a dastardly difficult problem to track down. There are a
> couple things I would suggest for David and/or some other Ubuntu
> employee with commit access, to help endusers over this hump. First of
> all, a simple fix, pleas list the audio-chipsets in this bug, not just
> the model-names of the computers. Clevo P180Hm w/ RealTek ALC892, in my
> particular hardware. Most forums recommend that you search for your
> audio-chipset, not for your model-and-vendor, but this bug does not show
> up thataway currently.

Over 80% of audio bugs, including this one, are specific to the codec
*configuration*, which is usually best described with the PCI SSID
number or vendor+model. Bugs specific to a codec (Realtek ALC892) or
controller chip (Intel ICH6) are much less common.

The major exception to this rule is HDMI/Displayport audio or external
audio devices.

> Something quite brief,
> like the following, would suffice:
>
> Do not see your speakers? (with a hyperlink that takes them to this bug-report)
> Do not see your microphone? (again with the hyperlink)
>
> These would need to be translated, and verified to fit in the available
> pixel-real-estate of the dialogbox in question, but methinks it could be
> done without violating the spirit of an LTS release. Failing that,
> backporting David's 3.6 kernel fixes to the 3.5.0.41-series that is
> currently in use with 12.04.3 seems the only way to fix the root cause.

This backporting has already been do...

"but I don't get why you're trying to play back a configuration file..."

Greetings, David -- yes, I was piping a textfile to the speakers, just to
generate some noise (and prove whether they were working). One can omit
those lines, or replace them with aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
but my favorite is this alternative -- espeak "I'll be back"
The advantage of using aplay with a *known* filename (in the context of
my script) is there are no dependencies; that's the reason behind it.

"just running a 3.5+ ubuntu kernel (or 3.6+ upstream kernel)
fixes this bug completely"

Can you please put that in the read-me-first description? I actually
looked for just such a phrase. I realize that it says FixReleased for
Precise at the top, but the comments are confusing... you talk about
backporting to the 3.5 kernel, but you also specify that as Quantal,
then go on to mention that you *want* it in 12.04.2 -- without ever
coming right out and saying that it in fact now is in 12.04.3 (and .2?).
I suggest this sentence: "If you're suffering from... 1)... 2)... The
easiest fix is to update your system to the latest 12.04.3+ updates, or
alternatively a 12.10-or-later installation. If you have done so and
still have problems, the workaround in comment#32 sometimes helps, but
whether it does or not, please file a separate launchpad bug."

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1236965
I have filed another bug for my specific issues over here.

As to the more general issue of making audio not suck:

"Over 80% of audio bugs, including this one, are specific to the codec
*configuration*, which is usually best described with the PCI SSID
number or vendor+model. Bugs specific to a codec (Realtek ALC892) or
controller chip (Intel ICH6) are much less common."

Well... I have a relatively rare motherboard SSID... but still....

(alsa OR pulseaudio) ("alc 892" OR "alc892") ==>> 94 hits
(alsa OR pulseaudio) ("1558:8000" OR "15588000" OR "0x15588000") ==>> zero hits

Some rough back-of-the-browser calculations suggest that using the SSID
as a key to debugging audio problems is rare, at the moment. Maybe it
makes sense to start using it? If enough ubuntu people are aware of the
SSID connection, and use it to debug their audio-related-difficulties,
then launchpad search results specific to your motherboard or videocard
would be much easier to locate. I'll go ahead and paste my SSID stuff
here, into the bug... making my comment the NUMBER ONE HIT when googling.
Not that I'm bragging or anything -- humble to the core, that's me. :-)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/SameHardware
(explains which portions of the output below are pci_vid and pci_ssid.)

$ cat /proc/asound/card*/codec#* | grep --before-context=4 --after-context=1 "Subsystem Id"
Codec: Realtek ALC892
Address: 0
AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 1)
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0892
Subsystem Id: 0x15588000
Revision Id: 0x100302
--
Codec: ATI R6xx HDMI
Address: 0
AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 0)
Vendor Id: 0x1002aa01
Subsystem Id: 0x00aa0100
Revision Id: 0x100200

$ lspci -vvnn | grep --after-context=1 "Audio device"
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corpora...

I still have this problem on a Lenovo T61p running 12.04 with pulseuadio 1;1.1-0ubuntu15.4. All newly updated today 10Feb2014.
Kernel is 3.2.

alsainfo attached

no input sources appear in the sound settings in ubuntu 13.10 even though i can select inputs in pavucontrol (front microphone, back microphone, line in). sound recording works (at least on the alsa level).

this is the regression, as sound inputs sources show up correctly in the old ubuntu 10.10 installed in another partition.

arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 2: ALC888 Alt Analog [ALC888 Alt Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

where can i find information about the relation between alsa and the things that appear in sound preferences? who decides that the microphone is present in pavucontrol but is missing from sound settings applet?