no sound on gateway laptop

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 08/22/2007 12:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Justin Conover wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, you could try the 3kstack first.  This is just what I have to
>> do on F7.  Before you do anything, you might try your headphones
>> first.  Weird, but that works for me but external doesn't until I
>> build the latest alsa from mercurial.
> 
> well, as a quick test, i just changed /etc/modprobe.conf, and replaced
> 
>   options snd-hda-intel index=0
> 
> with
> 
>   options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
> 
> and rebooted, but that didn't solve anything.  time to dig a little
> deeper.
> 

Look in Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt for the list of
possible options.

(BTW I really wish the ALSA people would bundle up the fixes for the most
common problems and send them to -stable. There are hundreds of changes in
2.6.23 and it's really hard to figure out what to backport.)