Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA config problem

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:34 +0100, Naga wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2009 19:13:32 James wrote:
> [...]
> > The mobo has an Nvidia chip, the video card has a ATI video chip,
> > both only work under the Intel HDA driver. These are compiled
> > into the kernel, not loadable modules. I'm going bald googling
> > trying to find out what to do, or how to fix?
> [...]
> > No sound. Kmix has a red X over it on my kde panel.
> > There are no choices there in Kmix to select on.
> > HOW do I set this up?   udev, hal, or evdev configs?
> 
> In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series 
> kernel or use a live alsa ebuild.

Works for me.  In fact, I've never alsa, mixers, and sound working
better than in 2.6.28...

I have this card:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
which has the pci id 8086:284b

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