Raffaele BELARDI posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:39:14 +0200 as excerpted: > This is with HDA-intel driver on Nvidia nForce430/AD1986 chipset, icewm > desktop. I just read from the kernel doc [2] that there is a "model > name" parameter that defaults to '6stack' while my model is '3stack' so > tonight I will try that. > > Any other hints before I try upstream?
Just that the alsa hda drivers are undergoing quite a lot of changes upstream ATM, so you might expect possible behavior changes for 2.6.31 as you seem to have gotten for 2.6.30. I don't have that audio device here, mine's much older, but I do run direct git kernels, and have developed the habit of running a git whatchanged ORIG_HEAD.. after every git pull, just to follow the changes as they happen. As such, I've seen a LOT of those alsa:hda commits going by, so I know it's quite active ATM. However, it does appear most of those are simply adding tweaks and new model numbers to the list of what it supports, not major changes, so it's not /that/ bad. But there's still enough change that you might see bugs if you're running that hardware and nobody that's testing is running your particular model of it. But if they're reported, they should be fixed in short order, and even if you don't report them, the hardware's apparently common enough on mew machines that it'll probably be fixed in a stable update or two. (2.6.30 to 2.6.30.1 or .2, for instance, noting of course that those are the upstream versions, Gentoo uses -rX notation in place of the additional version digit, for its gentoo-sources packages.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
