Bug#641174: alsa-base: volume control not working - squeeze - GA-G41MT-ES2L - Intel C2D4500 - Realtek 887

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
Severity: important

Clicking on volume control shows this message:
The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This
means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed, or that
you don't have a sound card configured.
You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker
icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu.

Trying to play audio in mplayer shows this message:
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4649:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such
file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2190:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa'
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or
directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4649:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such
file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2190:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[AO ARTS] loading the aRts backend "/usr/lib/libartscbackend.la" failed

#lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio
Controller (rev 01)

#aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

#alsactl -init
nknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ID 887" "HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302"
"0x1458" "0xa002"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method

# alsamixer
cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument

Now, only after adding this line at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd-hda-intel model=generic

the sound is coming, but the volume control has only Master and PCM volume
control, rest are not present.

System info:

CPU : Intel C2D E4500
Board: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-ES2L
Codec: Realtek 887
OS: Debian Squeeze
Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686



Begin additional package status
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==-==-=ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applications
End additional package status
Begin /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
End /proc/asound/version
Begin /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfdff8000 irq 16
End /proc/asound/cards
Begin /dev/snd/ listing
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Sep 11 09:21 by-path
crw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Sep 11 09:21 controlC0
crw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Sep 11 09:21 hwC0D2
crw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Sep 11 09:21 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Sep 11 11:29 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Sep 11 09:21 seq
crw-rw-+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Sep 11 09:21 timer
End /dev/snd/ listing

Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.23+dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii lsof 4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii module-init-tools 3.12-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 164-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii alsa-utils 1.0.23-3 Utilities for configuring and usin

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
ii alsa-oss 1.0.17-4 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
pn apmd <none> (no description available)
pn oss-compat <none> (no description available)

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf changed:
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-emu10k1-synth ; : ; }
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-hda-intel model=generic





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