On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 17:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 10/21/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well it looks like all your modules are there, so something else "must" > > be wrong: > > > > Have you run alsaconf with the card active/working as it is now? > > > > Holly > > But I think what alsaconf does is discoiver cards and write stuff to > modprobe.conf. I don't think that's appropriate right now. I have > barely used amixer as I mostly work with the HDSP which is supported > by a different application. I think what's required here would be for > Michael to dig into amixer a bit more and see what he can figure out > about his device. > > As far as I can tell so far we have managed to get his drivers loaded. > the snd-intel-hda is loaded. It shows up as card 0 and has an > interrupt. This is immensley better than when I started readign this > thread earlier today. Everyone helped. That's cool. > > However, and this is a really ugly part about Alsa, there is no single > way to control all these cards. Michael will need to learn amixer or > figure out what other application supports this card, as hdspmixer > does for my HDSP cards. Maybe there is some other app we don't know > about. > > Going to this page: > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view_all_bug_page.php > > choosing ALSA-driver at the top right and snd_intel_hda in the search > area shows one major issue right now: > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1380 > > It starts: > > <QUOTE> > Hello. > > I am getting very scratchy audio in my Intel HDA card besides the > sound is very low. > > lspci output is: > > 0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) > High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) > </QUOTE> > > > One interesting comment: > > <QUOTE> > First, try ALSA CVS or ALSA 1.0.10-rc1. There have been many bugs > fixed since 1.0.9-rc2. > > Then, if it still doesn't work, to verify that it's not a modutils > bug, explicitly do: > rmmod snd-intel-hda > modprobe snd-intel-hda position_fix=0 > > Then test the sound and repeat with position_fix=1, 2, and 3. > </QUOTE> > > So possibly 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 may not support this card very well, as I > suggested earlier. It's a new card. > > I think that Micheal could probably work this issue through the Alsa > bug reporting feature, or by going to alsa-devel and looking for some > help there. I am about 200% certain he will be asked to update to the > most recent versions of Alsa which will require patching the kernel or > at least building stuff outside of portage. He may or may not want to > do that. > > - Mark >
I tried those things you listed, issuing a "amixer -c 0" after each one. None of them worked. Also, I'm not sure if it's important, but I cannot successfully modprobe snd-intel-hda. I CAN successfully modprobe snd-hda-intel... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
