Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>On 10/21/05, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I'm tellin' ya. alsamixer is jsut a gui for amixer and amixer does not
>>>work for every Alsa supported card. You need to find out from the Alsa
>>>folks what is the supported mixer for this card.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Just an FYI, I also have an intel-hda (in my laptop).  Alsamixer
>>supports it just fine, except that the stupid card doesn't provide a
>>"Master Volume" control, so you have to adjust the speaker volume with
>>the "Front" control.  Stupid card.
>>
>>-Richard
>>    
>>
>
>What kernel are you running? Can you give Michael a hint as to how you
>set it up?
>  
>

Kernel version is from suspend2-sources-2.6.13-r5.  I didn't have to do 
anything special for setup though..."it just worked".

I suspect you are correct that it is a driver bug and a newer version of 
the driver would help.  Michael, sorry I haven't been following this 
thread closely, but have you tried a .14-rc kernel?  I just looked at 
vanilla-sources-2.6.14-rc5, and there seems to be some significant 
changes with the newest kernel.

Anyway, some basic information about my setup follows.  I can provide 
more if desired (particularly /etc/asound.state, ~/.asoundrc, or amixer 
output).

carcharias linux # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
...
snd_hda_intel          15872  1
snd_hda_codec          73536  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                78600  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              22212  1 snd_pcm
snd                    43192  6 
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9056  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9800  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
...

carcharias linux # emerge -vp alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-headers
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9  +doc -jack 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a-r1  +nls 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.9  +X 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9b  0 kB

carcharias linux # lspci -n
...
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:2668 (rev 04)
...

carcharias linux # lspci -vv
...
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 10c3
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at febf8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA 
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ 
Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
                Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, 
ExtTag-
                Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                Link: Supported Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, 
Port 0
                Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                Link: ASPM Disabled CommClk- ExtSynch-
                Link: Speed unknown, Width x0
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
...

-Richard

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