Hello,
I have been using Alsa for a couple of years with
different Linux installs (primarily Debian unstable)
on my home and laptop machines, and for over a year
with this particular laptop (IBM Thinkpad A22e)
without any major difficulties. I have done quite a
few installations on my own and others' machines with
the same basic configuration - compiled kernel, Alsa
compiled as modules, etc.
However, due to a recent harddrive crash on my laptop
I was forced to reinstall my system, and that's when I
started running into some difficulties. I have not
been able to find any relevant help online directly
related to this problem, so am turning to this list as
a result (BTW - I had been keeping fairly well
up-to-date on the alsa drivers (0.9alpha through 0.9.3
I believe), but with the new install I had moved to
0.9.4). What I am now seeing on bootup is:
ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c:416:
cs46xx: failure waiting for FIFO command to complete
ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c:167:
AC'97 read problem (ACSTS_VSTS), codec_index 0, reg =
0x7e
...and when I try to stop and start Alsa manually I
get the following:
ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c:416:
cs46xx: failure waiting for FIFO command to complete
The modules do stay loaded, but I only get dmmidi and
midi00 devices in the /dev/sound directory (no
/dev/dsp link or other device entries in /dev/sound).
Here are some relevant commands and their output:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-cs46xx 70888 0
snd-pcm 62500 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-timer 15364 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 40072 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-page-alloc 5116 0 [snd-cs46xx snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 14048 0 [snd-cs46xx]
snd-seq-device 4288 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 31524 0 [snd-cs46xx snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
mousedev 4436 1 (autoclean)
agpgart 26164 0 (autoclean) (unused)
uhci 27356 0 (unused)
vfat 10892 1 (autoclean)
fat 32920 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
fan 1632 0 (unused)
thermal 6276 0 (unused)
button 2540 0 (unused)
processor 8344 0 [thermal]
battery 5760 0 (unused)
ac 1824 0 (unused)
eepro100 20500 1
mii 2496 0 [eepro100]
keybdev 2148 0 (unused)
usb-storage 121968 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 89280 0 [usb-storage]
hid 19716 0 (unused)
usbcore 65548 1 [uhci usb-storage
hid]
input 3744 0 [mousedev keybdev
hid]
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX -
82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX -
82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev
03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev
03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9
[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c)
00:03.1 Serial controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT
WinModem (rev 01)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS
4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio
Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
(rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4
IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB
PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
(rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294
Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
# lspci -v
<snipped>
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS
4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio
Accelerator] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0153
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64,
IRQ 11
Memory at e8122000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=4K]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
<snipped>
# ls -lA /dev/sound
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 9 1969-12-31
18:00 dmmidi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 1969-12-31
18:00 midi00
These messages were as root with a 2.4.21 kernel, so I
tried 2.5.73 and 2.5.74, with the same problems (AFAIK
these are also using 0.9.4). All configurations use
DevFS at bootup with devfsd. Other installations I
have done with Debian configured devfsd.conf
correctly, though research on the 'Net showed me a few
lines that I tried to no effect:
# ALSA
LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd
REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio
660
REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio
660
Of course I didn't anticipate this helping since there
weren't any entries in the /dev/sound directory
anyway.
Can anyone please help me resolve this issue?
Many thanks!!!!
Geoff Weber
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