[alsa-devel] Intel ICH Modem init fails for laptop built-in SiS modem

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:43 +0000,
Richard Kennedy wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:33 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:45:31 +0000,
> > Richard Kennedy wrote:
> > > 
> > > My JVC mininote laptop has an inbuilt SiS modem
> > >  00:01.6 Modem [0703]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller [1039:7013] (rev a0)
> ...
> > > kernel: Intel ICH Modem: probe of 0000:00:01.6 failed with error -5
> > > 
> > > I never use the modem so I blacklisted the snd-intel8x0m module in
> > > modprobe.conf just to make the messages go away.
> > > 
> > > I'm currently running the fedora 2.6.23 kernel but it has been broken
> > > for a long time.
> > > 
> > > Is this fixable?
> > > or shall I just go on ignoring it ;) ?
> > 
> > The latter unless you really need the support of it ;)
> > We have no datasheet for this SIS chipset, so it's hard to fix,
> > unfortuantely.
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> 
> Right, thanks.
> 
> In that case should we remove it from then supported devices list ?

Maybe.  But it might work on other machines with the same chipset.
It can't be confirmed easily...


Takashi

> 
> [ from intel8x0m.c ]
> 
> MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE("{{Intel,82801AA-ICH},"
> 	...
>                 "{SiS,7013},"
> 	...
>                 "{AMD,AMD768}}");
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> 
>