[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#743936: Bug#743936: alsa-base: Default configuration does not work on iMacs

[Elimar Riesebieter]

severity 743936 wishlist
tags 743936 wontfix
thanks

* Paul Stewart <pauldast at umich.edu> [2014-04-08 10:55 -0400]:

> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.25+3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 

> I have an iMac 12,1 and an imac 13,2.  On both machines the
> internal speakers work after a fresh install of Jessie but the
> headphones do not.  Adding the line "options snd-hda-intel
> model=imac27_122" to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
> fixes the issue on both machines.

Fine, you found a fix ;-) But please do as root:

# echo "options snd-hda-intel model=imac27_122" >> /etc/modprobe.d/imac_local.conf

as alsa-base.conf will be overwritten on each update of alsa-base.


> I don't know if it is technically the correct fix, but it does
> work.

You checked all your mixer settings? snd-hda-intel normaly
autodetects all its flavors.

> I don't know what needs to be changed to get it to
> auto-configure correctly, but it would be excellent if it did.

It would be somewhat inordinately to respect every flavor of
every soundcard from Debian's distribution. We maybe will note your
fix in Debians README on next upload.

Elimar
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