two F11 issues

[arijit sarkar]

Thanks.

This works great for me.

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Arijit Sarkar
India


On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 12:18 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > 
> > F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
> > 
> > boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
> > 
> > But...
> > 1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
> > mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10, doing
> > that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%, and I'd
> > have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
> 
> Unfortunately this will not work with the Live CD, but if you installed the Live CD to your hard drive I am sure it will work. At least it did for me on my 1000HE.
> 
> You might want to try setting the options for the snd-hda-intel module.
> 
> For my EEE-1000HE I created the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and put the following lines:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel model=quanta
> 
> This broke my onboard microphones, but it made the sound much better.
> 
> What you can try is the following:
> 
> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
> 
> Then look on this site http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt for your model.
> 
> For example, on my current Laptop the above command gives me
> 
> Codec: Realtek ALC268
> 
> So on the site I scroll down to the ALC267/268 section and I see the following:
> 
> 66	ALC267/268
> 67	==========
> 68	  quanta-il1	Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
> 69	  3stack	3-stack model
> 70	  toshiba	Toshiba A205
> 71	  acer		Acer laptops
> 72	  acer-dmic	Acer laptops with digital-mic
> 73	  acer-aspire	Acer Aspire One
> 74	  dell		Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
> 75	  zepto		Zepto laptops
> 76	  test		for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
> 77			adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
> 78			$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
> 79	  auto		auto-config reading BIOS (default)
> 
> Since my laptop is a Toshiba, I use the toshiba model option so the line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf looks like:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
> 
> I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try either of the following (replace "toshiba" from the above line with one of the options below):
> 
> basic
> quanta
> eeepc-p703
> eeepc-p901
> fujitsu
> 
> When I was doing my eee 1000HE the quanta model would give me much louder sound and the headphone sensing would still work.
> 
> Just remember that you might want to reboot when making changes, I never had much success with unloading the module and then modprobing it with the proper option.
> 
> Trial and error is your friend!
> 
> Let me know how it goes. I wrote a blog entry about it here: http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/05/eee-pc-1000he-tips.html 
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