Bug 75500 – Vanilla Kernel >= 2.6.8 emu10k1 driver does not work for Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum 2 ZS

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Kevin Arhelger 2004-12-23 17:43:31 UTC]

I have installed gentoo and all kernels up to 2.6.7 work just fine with audio, but kernel 2.6.9 does not. I belive this is a kernel bug as Suse Linux 9.2 with kernel 2.6.8 also does not work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install kernel 2.6.7 and get sound working 
2.Upgrade to 2.6.9
Actual Results:  
Sound stops working with no errors. Programs use /dev/dsp as normal but no sound
results.

Expected Results:  
Sound plays!

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
 2.6.7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3
/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /us
r/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdu
e.edu/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr en
code esd f77 fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick iml
ib jack java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg msn ncurses netowrk nls og
gvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl sll spel
l ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI
bridge (AGP)
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC
Bridge)
0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
(rev 07)
0000:00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
(rev 07)
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port
(rev 04)
0000:00:0d.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36.2 [GeForce FX
5700] (rev a1)

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-12-24 00:14:45 UTC]

post your `dmesg` output

[Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-12-24 00:49:25 UTC]

are you using emu10k1 or snd-emu10k1? That is, are youu using the alsa or oss drivers.  Please post your .config, lsmod output, and dmesg output.

[Comment 3 Kevin Arhelger 2004-12-24 09:17:45 UTC]

Created attachment 46798 [details]
dmesg lsmod /var/log/kernel/current /proc/config.gz

I have attached a text file with four sections.
DMESG
LSMOD
/VAR/LOG/KERNEL/CURRENT
.CONFIG (from /proc/config.gz)
Also I am using snd-emu10k1.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-12-26 11:43:22 UTC]

can you try disabling alsa in your kernel and using media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.7-rX?

[Comment 5 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-01-03 03:59:14 UTC]

can youu please try alsa-driver-1.0.8_rc1 and if it's still a problem report upstream as well

[Comment 6 Kevin Arhelger 2005-01-17 16:06:45 UTC]

I have rebuilt my 2.6.10 vanilla kernel without alsa and used ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" emerge alsa-driver and now sound works. So there must be some kernel problem. Also, I saw that the -ac9? patch set seems to include an alsa fix witch may or maynot fix it.
So, it is only a work around. The issue still stands.

[Comment 7 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-02-03 02:16:48 UTC]

marking fixed since the prefered method for installing alsa (alsa-drivers) works.