HDA Intel sound card problem

[dariusz rojewski]

2009/8/18 Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:43 -0300
>> Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > >
>> > > The default alsa drivers version in f11 is 1.0.18.  The current
>> > > version is 1.0.20 and there are lots of intel-hda fixes in the
>> > > update.  The reason f11 is running the old version is because the
>> > > kernel it is using doesn't support the new drivers.
>> >
>> >
>> > What do you mean by that? I have been using driver 1.0.20
>> > since I installed F11, a long time ago. There is nothing in kernel
>> > 2.6.29 that precludes its installation.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> When I run the alsa-info.sh script, this is the output I get.
>>
>> !!Kernel Information
>> !!------------------
>>
>> Kernel release:    2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64
>> Operating System:  GNU/Linux
>> Architecture:      x86_64
>> Processor:         x86_64
>> SMP Enabled:       Yes
>>
>>
>> !!ALSA Version
>> !!------------
>>
>> Driver version:     1.0.18a
>> Library version:    1.0.20
>> Utilities version:  1.0.20
>>
>>
>> There is no package for the drivers pulled up in an rpm query.  I
>> assumed that the reason they didn't have the 1.0.20 drivers installed
>> was an incompatibility with the kernel for some hardware.  I can't think
>> of another reason they wouldn't be using the latest stable version.
>> They obviously know about it since they have the library and utilities
>> installed.
>>
>>
> Thee driver is a bunch of kernel modules, which are part of the kernel.
>
> Unfortunately, the only time Fedora upgraded the driver
> in a kernel, they used the 1.0.18, the buggiest
> alsa driver ever. Therefore, they will not do it again. They
> will use whatever version comes in the kernel.
>


Hello, it's me again :)

i don't remember if I reported that sound from headphones works when I added
line: options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6 to modprobe.d/dist.conf. it's so
weird for me. any other hints? :)


-- 
darekr
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