there is fatal bug in the latest alsa driver which create alt analog device even when there is only one [Audio Output]
ode 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x441: Stereo Device: name="AD1981 Analog", type="Audio", device=0 Device: name="AD1981 Alt Analog", type="Audio", device=1 Converter: stream=0, channel=0 Power states: D0 D1 D2 D3 Power: setting=D0, actual=D0 Processing caps: benign=1, ncoeff=70 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161523 Title: [PORTEGE M500, Analog Devices AD1981, Speaker, Internal] No sound at all Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: There is no sound output from my laptop speakers... however, when using headphones the volume is very very low, almost inaudible. I have checked the volume levels with alsamixer and they are all set to the maximum level. What can I do? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42~precise1-generic 3.5.7.6 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.25. ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: vina 1886 F.... pulseaudio vina 5501 F.... alsamixer Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x64080000 irq 43' Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981' Components : 'HDA:11d41981,11790311,00100200 HDA:11c13026,11790001,00100700' Controls : 35 Simple ctrls : 21 Date: Thu Mar 28 13:11:38 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130213) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: alsa-driver Symptom: audio Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:Intel failed Symptom_Card: Built-in Audio - HDA Intel Symptom_DevicesInUse: 953 1886 5501 953 953 Slmodemd F.... slmodemd vina F.... pulseaudio vina F.... alsamixer /dev/snd/pcmC0D6c: Slmodemd F...m slmodemd /dev/snd/pcmC0D6p: Slmodemd F...m slmodemd Symptom_Jack: Speaker, Internal Symptom_Type: No sound at all Title: [PORTEGE M500, Analog Devices AD1981, Speaker, Internal] No sound at all UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserAsoundrc: UserAsoundrcAsoundconf: dmi.bios.date: 08/24/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.bios.version: Version 1.40 dmi.board.name: Portable PC dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.board.version: Version A0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion1.40:bd08/24/2006:svnTOSHIBA:pnPORTEGEM500:pvrPPM50Z-05W01X:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0: dmi.product.name: PORTEGE M500 dmi.product.version: PPM50Z-05W01X dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA mtime.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.alsa.base.conf: 2013-03-28T13:08:15.532810 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1161523/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp