Re: Problems with hda_intel, Santa Rosa, and suspend

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:36, Matt Mullins wrote:
> I just received a Dell Latitude D630, with the new Intel Santa Rosa
> platform.  Currently, the only major driver issue I have is sound.  It
> worked fine in Ubuntu Feisty's 2.6.20 kernel, but now I am using Gutsy
> so I can have graphics drivers.  Gutsy's 2.6.22-rc3-based kernel no
> longer recognized my soundcard, a Sigmatel STAC9205, which uses the
> hda_intel driver.  I have since fixed that problem by compiling the
> hda_intel driver into the kernel (I used 2.6.22-rc4 vanilla sources),
> instead of a module, but it is still a bug that it does not work as a
> module.
> 
> All the following debug information was obtained from kernel 2.6.22-rc4.
> 
> However, the bug that is currently affecting me is that sound no
> longer works after using ACPI suspend-to-RAM or swsusp.  I compiled
> ALSA debugging in, and as soon as I resume, I get tons of messages
> like:
> [    8.474830] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xd0970500
> [    8.474954] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xd0af0009
> [    8.475078] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xd0a70500
> [    8.475207] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0xd0bf0009
> (etc)
> 
> There may be more before that, but that is more than the kernel
> message buffer can hold, so I can't ever see it.  I get similar
> timeout messages each time a PCM gets set up:
> [    8.972859] hda_codec_setup_stream: NID=0x10, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0
> x11
> [    8.972987] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x1070650
> [    9.006071] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x1020011
> [    9.006081] hda_codec_setup_stream: NID=0x11, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0
> x11
> [    9.006207] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x1170650
> [    9.016117] hda-intel: send_cmd timeout: IRS=0x1, val=0x1120011
> 
> I read some of sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c, specifically the code that
> output those messages.  After octupling my kernel log buffer (to 1MB),
> I noticed that for the first set of timeouts (immediately upon
> resume), all the "codec" nibbles are odd, the last word of the val
> ("verb" and "para") are all either 0x0500 or 0x0009.  For the second
> set (when something tries to use the card) that last word is 0x0650 or
> 0x0011.
> 
> I have yet to go back and re-test compiling snd-hda-intel as a module.

Well, the ALSA people should be notified of that in the first place (CCs
added).

Greetings,
Rafael


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