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From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@southernstarsolutions.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:50:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110220085048.GA8009@satcidananda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <goauR-3e4-1@gated-at.bofh.it>

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +0000, Mick wrote
>
>> Ah ... mine have more.  <F4> in alsamixer brings up all these Capture devices:
>> 
>> Front Mic  67<>67
>> Mic        67<>67
>> Capture    80<>80
>> Capture    80<>80
>> Digital    61<>61
>> Digital    33<>33
>> Input So   Digital Mic  (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
>> Input So   Digital Mic  (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
>> 
>> There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the
>> front left of the keyboard.
>
>   Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I
> like it.  My card shows up in "lspci -v" as...
>
> 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
>         Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
>         Memory at d0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>
> alsamixer shows...
> Card: HDA ATI SB
> Chip: Realtek ALC272X 
>
>   One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a
> parameter.  Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and
> I'm an absolute newbie on "alsa-driver".  alsa-driver is keyworded
> ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it.  Maybe even desparate enough
> to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS.
>
>   If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have
> to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in "make menuconfig"...
>
>< > Sound card support  --->
>
>   Is that correct?  

I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the 
intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it 
was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it 
working without disabling audio in the kernel.

>Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in
> /etc/make.conf ?
>

ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"

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       reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <glxxE-17x-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <gnvi2-8eQ-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <go3MK-da-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <go4Su-21Z-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <goauR-3e4-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-02-20  8:50         ` Elaine C. Sharpe [this message]
2011-02-20 12:09           ` [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo? Mick
2011-02-21  1:33             ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-21  6:52               ` Mick
2011-02-21 10:11               ` YoYo Siska
2011-02-21 23:14                 ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-22  0:18                   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-02-12 23:45 [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2011-02-13  0:53 ` Hung Dang
2011-02-13  6:48 ` Yohan Pereira
2011-02-13 22:10   ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-15 10:56     ` Yohan Pereira
2011-02-18  9:45     ` Mick
2011-02-18  9:49       ` Mick
2011-02-19 22:40         ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-19 23:54           ` Mick
2011-02-20  5:54             ` Walter Dnes

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