two F11 issues
fred smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Jun 23 10:36:37 UTC 2009
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:18:30PM -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
Tait:
Thanks for all the info. I'll letyou know once I've had a chance to mess
with it.
Fred
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