[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#404215: Bug#404215: snd_hda_intel not working on Dell Latitude D630

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 the mental interface of
Eric S Fraga told:

> > Hmm, there seems to be a codec module missing? I don't have a intel
> > sound chip handy, though.
> 
> no, all codec modules were present. however:
> 
> > > The sound system used to work on i386 stable before I upgraded to
> > > testing/amd64.
> > 
> > Are you sure, your kernel is configured to work with alsa? Try
> > alsa-source package from unstable. In 1.0.15 much code was optimized
> > for intel chips.
> 
> I installed module-assistant and also-source and then rebuilt the alsa
> intel drivers. Everything now works [1]. Obviously, I guess I'll have to
> rebuild these drivers the next time the kernel and modules are updated
> but that should be fine.

2.6.24 comes with:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15 (Tue Nov 20 19:16:42 2007 UTC).
No module rebuild necessary ;)

> However, it does indicate that there is
> something wrong with the current situation?

No. The damn f...... intel_hda chips are existing in many, many
flavours. Dell wants his own, Lenovo, mainbord producers .....
It is not easy for the alsadevelopers to make this chips working.
But hey, not only on i386.

> Anyway, thanks for your response.
> 
> Thanks,
> eric
> 
> [1] actually,  rebuilding the drivers did  allow sound to  work but it
>     worked  with ever  increasing volume!   this was  fixed  by adding
>     'model=dell-m42' to the alsa modprobe options.

One of the flavours I told above.

Elimar
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