HD Audio with ALC888 lock computer

[jep]

HD Audio: Realtek ALC888 / ALC888T

The installed Soundblaster Live 5.1 Card doesn't work in this computer, it just emit a clicking sound with the provided drivers, so today I enabled the onboard sound as I read that eCO has tested it.

I can confirm that it emit sound (faint, may be related to speakers and settings?) on a newly installed system. There's a problem though, it lock the computer solid after the first sound has finished playing, no mouse or keyboard input is possible after that.

Specifications Note: Lines within parenthesis indicate features that has been disabled in BIOS or can't be used.

MSI K9A2 Platinum ( MS-7376 v1.x Mainboard ) BIOS: AMI BIOS v1.4 CPU: AMD Phenom 9600, Agena Quad Core CPU, 2.3 GHz, can't use SMP yet North Bridge: AMD 790FX chipset South Bridge: AMD SB600 chipset RAM: 3Gb LAN: Realtek 8111B ( Firewire 1394: VIA VT6308P ) Audio: Realtek ALC888 / ALC888T ( Audio: Sound Blaster Live Player 5.1 (EMUK10K1) but doesn't work, only clicking, no Wave audio ) HDD: SATA Seagate 500Gb DVD: 2 identical Samsung S-ATA, but eCS v2.0 RC4 detect only the "first" with ATAPI. USB: 4 OHCI and 1 extra EHCI

​http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodmbspec&prod_no=1332&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&cat3_no=#menu Graphics: GeCube ATI Radeon HD 3870, 2 DVI out, adapter for analog display Driver: Panorama

Specs: ​http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd3800/specs.html

[Paul Smedley]

1.1.4 builds don't generally work with HDA.

The 1.9.x builds aren't perfect and can still cause hard lockups on some hardware, but generally work better with HDA than the 1.1.4 builds.

Please try 1.9.4 (based on ALSA 1.0.16) from ​http://download.smedley.info/uniaud32-1.9.4.zip or 1.9.5 (based on ALSA 1.0.17) from

​http://download.smedley.info/uniaud32-alsa-1.0.17-20080716.zip

[jep]

Have now tested the three versions at least twice.

"standard" eCS v2.0 RC5 with UniAud 1.9.2 r334 play sound, but lock right after it's done with the startup sound Downloaded and tested files above as suggested: UniAud 1.9.4 r353 play sound, but lock right after it's done with the startup sound. UniAud 1.9.5 r358 lock the computer solid right before the boot process is supposed to leave text mode and load the desktop.

Need uniaud16 (1.1.4-RC6) enabled to be able to get sound at all.

Jan-Erik

[mikeforester]

Ditto. My motherboard has an Intel audio device with ADI AD2000B codec (according to the docs). I tried both 1.9.4 and 1.9.5; the former didn't load at all. The good news is, 1.9.5 supports this chipset. The bad news is it locks the system up hard as soon as the startup sound has played.

[jep]

UniAud 1.9.6 (r372) work quite well now! Thank you!

Noticed that it lock the computer if one tries to play 2 audio files and accidentally overlap. That is, start the second before the first one has ended. But that's an issue you seem to know about and are working on to solve in general.