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.

Also, I tried removing the nvidia option from the list in the kernel configuration and only have IDT selected, but it would say unknow nvidia chip when trying to load the module on boot.

I have the output of lspci -nv attached to this email. I hope you can give me a clue as to what to do next.

This is what I have in my in my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa file: # Alsa kernel modules' configuration file.

# ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore

# OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=1

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=hp-dv7 enable=1 enable_msi=1 single_cmd=0 power_save_controller=0 power_save=0

I have a program that analyzed my audio in Windows. This is the output from that: Sound, video and game controllers || NVIDIA HDMI Audio Top Property Value NVIDIA HDMI Audio Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_10DEDEV_0006SUBSYS_10DE0101REV_1000\43451138D00201 Status 0x0180200a Started Problem 0x00000000 (0) Service NVHDA Capabilities 0x00000000 Config Flags 0x00000000 Class MEDIA Manufacturer NVIDIA Hardware IDs HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_10DEDEV_0006SUBSYS_10DE0101REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_10DEDEV_0006SUBSYS_10DE0101 Compatible IDs HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293EVEN_10DEDEV_0006REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086VEN_10DEDEV_0006REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_10DEDEV_0006REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293EVEN_10DEDEV_0006 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086VEN_10DEDEV_0006 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_10DEDEV_0006 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293EVEN_10DE HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086VEN_10DE HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_10DE HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293E HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01GFVEN_10DEDEV_0006SUBSYS_10DE0101REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01 Class GUID {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} Location Internal High Definition Audio Bus Bus number 0x00000000 Enumerator name HDAUDIO Description NVIDIA HDMI Audio Driver {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000 Physical Object Name \Device\0000008b UI number 0x00000002 Bustype GUID {41203534-2037-3144-2042-422044362041} Legacy bus type 0x00000005 Device Type 0x0000001d Install State 0x00000000 Security 01 00 04 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 02 00 5C 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 10 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 05 12 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 00 E0 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 05 20 00 00 00 20 02 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 E0 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 E0 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 05 0C 00 00 00 Security (SDS form) D:P(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;;GXGWGR;;;BA)(A;;GXGWGR;;;WD)(A;;GXGWGR;;;RC) Device Address 0x00000201

Sound, video and game controllers || IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Top Property Value IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_111DDEV_76B2SUBSYS_103C30F4REV_1003\43451138D00001 Status 0x0180200a Started Problem 0x00000000 (0) Service STHDA Capabilities 0x00000000 Config Flags 0x00000000 Class MEDIA Manufacturer IDT Hardware IDs HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_111DDEV_76B2SUBSYS_103C30F4REV_1003 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_111DDEV_76B2SUBSYS_103C30F4 Compatible IDs HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293EVEN_111DDEV_76B2REV_1003 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086VEN_111DDEV_76B2REV_1003 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_111DDEV_76B2REV_1003 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293EVEN_111DDEV_76B2 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086VEN_111DDEV_76B2 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_111DDEV_76B2 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293EVEN_111D HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086VEN_111D HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_111D HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086CTLR_DEV_293E HDAUDIO\FUNC_01CTLR_VEN_8086 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01GFVEN_111DDEV_76B2SUBSYS_103C30F4REV_1003 HDAUDIO\FUNC_01 Class GUID {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} Location Internal High Definition Audio Bus Bus number 0x00000000 Enumerator name HDAUDIO Description IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Friendly name IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Driver {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0007 Physical Object Name \Device\00000089 UI number 0x00000000 Bustype GUID {41203534-2037-3144-2042-422044362041} Legacy bus type 0x00000005 Device Type 0x0000001d Install State 0x00000000 Security 01 00 04 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 02 00 5C 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 10 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 05 12 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 00 E0 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 05 20 00 00 00 20 02 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 E0 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 E0 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 05 0C 00 00 00 Security (SDS form) D:P(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;;GXGWGR;;;BA)(A;;GXGWGR;;;WD)(A;;GXGWGR;;;RC) Device Address 0x00000001

Thanks, Jon