Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

[dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>]

On 02/15/2011 06:10 AM, laconism wrote:
> you can use 'lspci' in shell to know something about your sound card,then http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml      has a guide about how to set your hardware and kernel,the information used to make sure the model of your sound card is porvided in 'lspci',look it up clearly
> if you don't know how to update the kernel,see herehttp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
> My English is not very good, i wish that you can understand
> At 2011-02-15 18:43:57，dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net> wrote:
>> On 02/14/2011 12:29 PM, walt wrote:
>>> On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote:
>>>  
>>>> What are the "Intel HD Audio" codecs?  I don't
>>>> remember doing anything explicitly for them.  How do I check them? 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Under the HD-Intel sound card driver menu there are several codecs for
>>> specific sound chips.  e.g. I use the one for realtek, but yours may be
>>> a different one.  Doesn't hurt to build them all as modules and see which
>>> one(s) your kernel actually uses.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It looks like all the codec's are built in.  I'm not sure what the last
>> one in the list does.
>>
>> # grep -i realtek /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86_64-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
>> CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY=m
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
>> # grep -i codec /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86_64-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
>> CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y
>> # CONFIG_SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS is not set
>>
>> This is the genkernel so pretty much everything is built in.
>>
>> Could this be a bug in the kernel?  I haven't had sound for about a
>> year, but I know it use to work on this hardware.  It probably went out
>> with an upgrade and never came back with a new install.
>>
>> Any ideas are appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> dhk
>>
> 
> 
> 

Been there, done that, still no sound.  Thanks.