I rather would bug report this on upstream, but it seems the bugtracker is gone. Any pointers would be valuable. I have uploaded my configuration using the alsa-info.sh script to: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e57f3769a7e25a7672af704bfc3946a81dcb4338 The main problem: no expected analogue output being played. Everything from the cards output is noise. The mixer in that respect does work, it is possible to mute or change the noise volume.
Created attachment 341450 [details] Small sample of audio
Created attachment 341452 [details] Picture of the spectrum
Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
ortage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.16.0, 3.8.2-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.2-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2380P_CPU_@_3.10GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8139656 total, 2145296 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388596 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p42 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.13.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3, 4.7.2-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.8 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac alsa amd64 android apng auto-hinter berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cli corefonts cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dri dv egl exif faac ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran g3dvl gdbm gnuplot iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kms latex lcms lzma mmx mmxext modules mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl ogg opencl opengl openmp openvg opus pcre pdf png policykit python2 qt4 readline savedconfig sdl session smp speex sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads truetype unicode vaapi vdpau vorbis x264 xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc"GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="nl" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="cris mipsel arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="cris mipsel arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="canon plustek" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, USE_PYTHON
Seems to be new firmware coming up: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1473322 If we look further, we also see it mentioned in some sound fixes; you can click through to them on the following link: http://search.gmane.org/?query=ca0132&author=&group=gmane.linux.kernel&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=Zca0132&xFILTERS=Glinux.kernel---A Since the firmware is just a codec, it doesn't look promising; however, the sound fixes do look quite promising. Could you try =sys-kernel/git-sources-3.9_rc7 to see if it is fixed there?
I have just tested the gentoo-sources 3.9.0. When I enable the new DSP code the DSP cannot be downloaded (and nothing is played out). When I disable the new DSP code the static noise returns. I have tried the both the kernel firmware and the alsa-firmware-1.0.27. Sadly from 3.8.2 => 3.9.0 the volume of the noise is *not* changed anymore with modification of the mixer.
Apart from http://www.computersupportforums.com/showthread.php?tid=146353 I haven't seen anything about this; you could ask him if he progressed, hopefully the forum sends him a mail in that case. (In reply to Stefan de Konink from comment #0) > I rather would bug report this on upstream, but it seems the bugtracker is > gone. Any pointers would be valuable. You could test the latest kernels (latest gentoo-sources and git-sources); if not, please report this bug at https://bugzilla.kernel.org and leave us a link behind to the upstream bug.
I'm currently at 3.9.7, so I'm pretty sure nothing is changed in the mean time. Same error. What I suspect is that in some Chromebook out there a Creative chipset is used which has exactly the same name (ca0132) but is clearly wired differently (or more likely has a different frontend) than this standalone PCI-e card. [ 5.895088] ca0132 DOWNLOAD FAILED!!! DSP IS NOT RUNNING. [ 5.905631] input: HDA Creative Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:03:00.0/sound/card1/input9 [ 5.905910] input: HDA Creative Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:03:00.0/sound/card1/input10 [ 5.906068] input: HDA Creative Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:03:00.0/sound/card1/input11 [ 5.906232] input: HDA Creative Line Out as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:03:00.0/sound/card1/input12
A relevant thread has started at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1526376 but I'm not sure if that's attributable to your hardware / kernel / alsa.
This is an unrelated card, also I have analogue enabled. Next to that: CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132 should be enabled I think?
