[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#511658: Bug#511658: alsa-base: AMD64 No Sound

[Mike Lewis]

Hey Elimar,

More information.

I have physically looked at the codec on the M/B. It (as best I can
see it) is Realtek ALC889A.

I found this document [1] that seemed they were working on the kernel
to make some changes regarding this exact chip. In hopes that I would
get a fix for the problem I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.27-1. I am
also now running Sid (unstable). Neither of these changes have
effected the sound. Although there are times that I can manage to get
sound, it is never across reboots. It always takes some time after a
reboot in order to get sound working. Maybe it is coincidence. Maybe
it is some sort of timing issue. Always after some series of 'alsa
force-reload; rmmod snd-hda-intel; modprobe -v snd-hda-intel'.

Just so you are aware, there are two threads [2][3] on the
Debian-users list regarding this issue. I posted there prior to
opening this bug report. I believe I have given you all the same
information (or more) that I posted there.

I have not upgraded to the latest ALSA drivers yet. Still running the
Sid version of drivers.

Hopefully with all this information, you'll be able to help me resolve
the issue.

Thanks,
Mike

[1]  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/11/267
[2]  http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=123162467715214&w=2
[3]  http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=123173290030716&w=2