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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:29:03 -0200,
Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
> Thanks, Takashi
> 
> but it did not change anything for the Intel DG45ID.
> This is a Genuine Intel mother board.
> 
> The sound card is detected as "Generic 8086 Intel G45 Develk",
> but I do not hear anything, even with all mixer channel at the maximum
> volumes.
> 
> This is a  Fedora 10, with the latest alsa packages, and
> everything seems OK, the applications work, but I do no hear anything.
> 
> With the alsa driver from the latest Fedora kernel
> 
> Linux version 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64
> 
> the card is detected as IDT 92HD73E1X5 and,
> 
> although I have to put all the mixer channels at the maximum, the sound
> output works fine, even mid emulation.
> 
> During the snapshot compilation, I got dozens of this warning:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/include/config1.h:65:1: warning:
> "CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT" redefined
> In file included from <command-line>:0:
> ./include/linux/autoconf.h:260:1: warning: this is the location of the
> previous definition
>   CC [M]  /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/misc/ac97_bus.o
> In file included from /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/include/config.h:6,
>                  from /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/include/
> adriver.h:25,
>                  from /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/misc/ac97_bus.c:1:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's no big issue, I guess.

> This is the output of alsa-info, with the stock driver (1.0.17):

Run alsa-info with --no-upload option on both working (1.0.17) and
non-working versions, and attach the generated files.


Takashi