On Sunday 06 March 2011 09:28:39 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote:
> >> There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got
> >> audio only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules,
> >> but he has no idea why (nor do I) but, as no one yet has a better idea,
> >> I'd try it as an experiment.
> > 
> > Because alsaconf needs to probe one module at a time and set its
> > parameters.
> 
> Just to confuse things more, I have the same driver for my sound and I
> build everything into my kernel and always have.  The sound worked as
> soon as I unmuted it.
> 
> root@fireball / # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep REALTEK
> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
> root@fireball / #
> 
> Weird huh?

Like you, I used to build the lot into the kernel for years and it worked 
fine.  Suddenly it stopped.  With no other discernible changes at the time to 
blame for this I raised a bug.  The devs recommended that I should build alsa 
as modules and that fixed the problem.  I haven't yet tried to go back to 
building it all in the kernel to see if it would still work.
-- 
Regards,
Mick