[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Add forced codec-slots for ASUS W5Fm

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 25 May 2009 09:07:50 +0300,
Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote On 25-05-2009 08:29:
> >
> > It's a string shown in debug messages.  It's compiled in only when the
> > debug option is set.
> >
> > DMI matching could be another candidate for this kind of quirk, yes.
> >
> >   
> 
> Hm, so another box having exactly the same device(1043:1262) but no
> problems in terms of model probing through BIOS, will be affected by
> this quirk, right?

Yes, DMI can be a better way to identify the unique device in many
cases.  But, it's also not perfect.  There are cases that DMI gives
totally bogus / generic strings...


Takashi