[alsa-devel] hda-intel: no codecs initialized with Teradici sound card and ALSA 1.0.17

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:32:57 +0000,
James Pearson wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:22:54 +0000,
> > James Pearson wrote:
> > 
> >>I'm using CentOS 5.3 (which uses ALSA 1.0.17) and a Teradici KVM over IP 
> >>extender - which has an hda_intel type sound chipset
> >>
> >>However, when the snd_hda_intel module is loaded, dmesg reports:
> >>
> >>PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:00.1 (0000 -> 0002)
> >>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
> >>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.1 to 64
> >>hda-intel: no codecs initialized
> > 
> > 
> > This means that the driver is loaded but the codec wasn't found
> > on the hardware.  It's rather a hardware issue, as it seems.
> 
> But the same card works with ALSA 1.0.15 - patched to support the 
> Teradici controller - using a patch based on:
> 
> <http://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=121607380317261&w=2>
> 
> So how can it be a hardware issue?

Well, if exactly the same machine works, then it's hardly.

> I'm going to see if a more recent version of ALSA works ...

Yes please.  1.0.17 is way too old to debug.


Takashi