[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#637620: Bug#637620: alsa-base: No sound with RealtekALC889A card

[Peter .]

I have created the alsa_local.conf file as specified and rebooted to confirm sound is still not present with the hdmi cable in use.  I am currently receiving sound via an hdi + headphone out combo.

Any more suggestions to restore sound via hdmi only?
Peter (mobile)

-----Original Message-----
From: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:06:36 
To: <peter_murdoch770 at hotmail.com>
Cc: <637620 at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#637620: alsa-base: No sound with Realtek
 ALC889A card

* Peter . [110813 19:50 +0000]:

> 
> Elimar,
> 
> I spent over 10 hours delving through forums and trying various
> combinations of settings and solutions to fix a problem with sound
> configuration which works out of the box on Windows because I make
> a huge effort to prevent bugging linux developers with erroneous
> issues - perhaps you can find any more information needed for the
> issue in the file which contains the entire system configuration
> without my assistance or just mark the bug as invalid because
> alsa-dev maintainers are too lazy to review the details of a
> reported issue.  

Experienced Maintainers keep cool with anxious bug reporters. In
most cases the bug resides between left and right ear ;-)

I would try to create a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa_local.conf as follows:

############
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=intel-alc889a index=1
############

you can rememove model=intel-alc889a for testing proposes.

HDMI -> first soundcard
snd-hda -> second.

You can find some more info's in
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian, but if you're lazy keep on
wining....

 Elimar

-- 
  Experience is something you don't get until 
  just after you need it!