On Thursday 03 August 2006 22:32, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Hi Lee, if your there. I've seen a couple of guys having problems with no > > master control in alsamixer using snd-hda-intel driver. One posted to > > this list, but in HTML, and probably was ignored (quite rightly), and is > > using a Hasee Q310N laptop, and Gentoo. the other guy is trying to deal > > with the problem on the Fedora list, with some help from another guy. He > > is using an Acer Aspire ZWLMi notebook, with FC5. > > > > The hda-intel driver is supported according to the sound card matrix, but > > are there any odd problems with it? And why should the master volume > > control be missing from Alsamixer. > > There's really no telling. It's misleading to say "snd-hda-intel is > supported" because every single laptop and motherboard with > snd-hda-intel is slightly different and there's absolutely no > documentation on what the differences are. Possibly the hardware is > oncorrectly detected. It's also possible that these devices simply have > no hardware master volume and Windows emulates it in software. > > All these users can do for now is search for information about their > machine in the ALSA bug tracker and hope it gets fixed someday. (They > can also try the various model options for their codec described in > Documentation/ALSA-Configuration.txt). > > Lee
Thanks for your replies Lee. I've relayed them to the 2 guys, and suggested that an alternative is to go for a USB one, if they are serious about needing audio. Nigel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
