At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:39:33 -0800 (PST), Jonathan Scruggs wrote:
Hi,
I have tried many things to try to get my sound card to work, but no luck. At first with the when I started alsamixer, it would say that I have a generic sound card. My laptop has two audio interfaces: a nVidia HDMI and an IDT High Definition Codec. I read this mailing list and saw that many people had issues with the HP's version of the IDT sound card. Then someone added patches to fix an issue with DV4. The fixes were in the latest snapshots, so I did some searching and pulled the alsa sources from here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git since I am using the 2.6.28 kernel. I went through the code and confirmed that it was updated to what I saw in the patches and the patches were not compatible with the kernel source I have, hence I was looking for something more compatible. More specifically, the kernel I have is "2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #5 SMP Wed Feb 25 15:37:22 GMT 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz Genuine Intel GNU/Linux". With a little bit of work, I merged in the new alsa source with that kernel and recompiled. Things are detected a bit better, like now alsamixer is saying that I have the chip "Nvidia MCP78 HDMI" instead of a Generic one. However, this is not the chip I want. I want to output to my speakers and headphone ports. I tried setting the option "model=hp-dv5" and then "model=hp-dv7" but that does nothing. I have absolutely no sound at all out of my speakers or headphone port. The drivers for this soundcard are on the HP website if you need them.
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Could you try the latest sound git tree? If it still doesn't work, run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload and attach the generated file. The script is found at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
Note that there is no model value "hp-dv7". The only relevant one is "hp-dv5".
thanks,
Takashi