[alsa-devel] alsa 1.0.18 does not work for Intel onboard cards

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:52:24 -0200,
Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > alsa driver 1.0.18 has been a nightmare for me.
> >
> > I had a perfectly working sound for my Intel D975XBX2 when using
> > alsa driver 1.017. Going to 1.0.18 just muted my front sound.
> > Well, maybe not everybody needs a front sound output, but I just
> > stick with the 1.01.17 driver.
> >
> >
> Then, I tried an Intel DG45ID mobo, which does not have
> any sound at all, with the later alsa driver 1.0.18a (detected as a Generic
> DG45).
> 
> Going back to alsa driver 1.0.17, from the stock Fedora 10 kernel
> (my card is then detected as an IDT 92HD73E1X5),
> I have an analogic sound working, but Master, Headphones, and PCM
> channels have to be above 90%, for anyone being able to hear anything.
> Therefore, the volume is compressed in the upper 10% of the scale.
> 
> Furthermore, I have no mic, and no input working (I would like to feed the
> output
> of my capture card to the input source of the sound card) .
> It seems to me that the input (blue jack)  is configured as output,
> in the 1.0.17 alsa driver.
> 
> I do not know what else I can try, maybe some alsa snapshot,
> to fix some of these issues.

Try the snapshot on
  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz


Takashi