[alsa-devel] No sound on Intel DQ965GF motherboard

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:10:42 -0500 (EST),
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> It appears the snd_usb_audio driver is a red herring, or at least a
> separate bug.  I checked, and my dmesg log does indeed say "hda-intel:
> no codecs found!" on boot, which suggests that snd_hda_intel is
> loading and then failing to initialize properly, accounting for the
> usage count of 0.

If you're using 2.6.24-rc* kernel (or did 1.0.15 backports), make sure
that you enabled all CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* configs.  Some people tend
to reduce options as much as possible although they are suggested as
default=y.


Takashi