[alsa-devel] Fwd: Re: No sound for a rather old laptop (ALC260).

[Fidel Leon Martin]

On Monday 26 May 2014 17:36:27 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > > Fidel Leon wrote:
> > > > > > I own a rather old laptop which features a snd_hda_intel
> > > > > > soundcard,
> > > > > > with a
> > > > > > ALC260 chipset.
> > > > 
> > > > Attached are alsa-infos from kernel 2.6 (which works) and 3.14 (Fedora
> > > > 20,
> > > > which doesnt work).
> > > 
> > > Looking at the alsa-info.sh output on 3.14, the node 0x0f has a
> > > strange control value 0x80.  This should be usually 0xc0, and testing
> > > with the emulator, it give this value at all.
> > > 
> > > What if you give model=nofixup option to snd-hda-intel module?
> > 
> > /etc/modprobe.d/alc260.conf:
> > options snd-hda-intel model=nofixup
> > 
> > Rebooted but seems to make little difference. Cranked every slider from
> > Alsamixer an pavucontrol to maximum. No output from speakers and a very
> > low
> > volume output in the S/PDIF output.
> > 
> > And now, to increase my dumb reputation, I'm not running 3.14 kernel
> > (neither Fedora) anymore - I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 - so I'm attaching
> > alsa-info.sh log for new setup.
> 
> You're testing the speaker output, right?  What about the headphone
> output?

It doesn't work either, not even a whisper. Already checked volume levels from 
alsamixer and pavucontrol, they are at maximum.

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