[Bug 1901043] Re: No sound in ubiquity-dm with nomodeset

[Łukasz Zemczak]

** Description changed:

+ 
+ [Impact]
+ 
+  * When booting to "Safe Graphics" mode the system startup sound would
+    sometimes not be played
+ 
+  * This is an accessibility issue as the system startup sound is meant to
+    indicate that Ubiquity is ready
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+  * Boot an installer image to Safe Graphics mode and listen for the
+ sound
+ 
+  * You can optionally use `systemctl status sound.target` to monitor when the
+    sound should be played. This should occur shortly after sound.target becomes
+    active
+ 
+ [Where problems could occur]
+ 
+  * If sound.target never comes up, the system ready sound will not be played.
+    This could be caused by a missing or broken sound card
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+ 
+  * It is expected behavior that the sound target may take longer to become active
+    when nomodeset is on the kernel command line. This is because nomodeset prevents
+    the kernel from pre-loading audio drivers.
+ 
+  * This problem seems to be more prevalent with Intel sound cards
+ 
+ [Original Description]
+ 
  Ubuntu Groovy Desktop
  
  There is no sound in ubiquity-dm with nomodeset (safe graphics mode)
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ubiquity 20.10.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.455
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Oct 22 15:20:00 2020
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
  ProcEnviron:
-  TERM=xterm-256color
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  TERM=xterm-256color
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  No sound in ubiquity-dm with nomodeset

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Focal:
  New

Bug description:

  [Impact]

   * When booting to "Safe Graphics" mode the system startup sound would
     sometimes not be played

   * This is an accessibility issue as the system startup sound is meant to
     indicate that Ubiquity is ready

  [Test Case]

   * Boot an installer image to Safe Graphics mode and listen for the
  sound

   * You can optionally use `systemctl status sound.target` to monitor when the
     sound should be played. This should occur shortly after sound.target becomes
     active

  [Where problems could occur]

   * If sound.target never comes up, the system ready sound will not be played.
     This could be caused by a missing or broken sound card

  [Other Info]

   * It is expected behavior that the sound target may take longer to become active
     when nomodeset is on the kernel command line. This is because nomodeset prevents
     the kernel from pre-loading audio drivers.

   * This problem seems to be more prevalent with Intel sound cards

  [Original Description]

  Ubuntu Groovy Desktop

  There is no sound in ubiquity-dm with nomodeset (safe graphics mode)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ubiquity 20.10.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.455
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Oct 22 15:20:00 2020
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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