Re: ALSA HDA Intel stoped to work in 2.6.16-*

From: Otavio Salvador
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 03:51:49 EST


Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> writes:

> At Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:15:25 -0300,
> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was using 2.6.15 without trouble but wanna try the new 2.6.16
>> version so I compiled it by myself without much hassle. All worked
>> fine but ALSA.
>>
>> My sound device is the following:
>>
>> 0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
>>
>> and it stoped to work.
>
> Please elaborate what do you mean "stoped to work"?
> Only silent output, DMA not working, or what?

Only silent output.

> Also, more hardware detail is needed - which machine and which codec?

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> This kind of problem is likely due to a broken BIOS. The current code
> parses the default pin configuration set up via BIOS while the older
> version used the fixed pin assignment (depending on the codec chip,
> though).
> In most cases, it can be recovered by specifying a proper model module
> option. See ALSA-Configuration.txt for details.

I wasn't able to do it. My lspci output for it is the following:

0000:00:1b.0 0403: 8086:2668 (rev 04)
0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: QUANTA Computer Inc: Unknown device 0729
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] #10 [0091]

I hope it helps.

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