[alsa-devel] hda-intel: no codecs initialized with Teradici sound card and ALSA 1.0.17

[James Pearson]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:22:54 +0000,
> James Pearson wrote:
> 
>>I'm using CentOS 5.3 (which uses ALSA 1.0.17) and a Teradici KVM over IP 
>>extender - which has an hda_intel type sound chipset
>>
>>However, when the snd_hda_intel module is loaded, dmesg reports:
>>
>>PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:00.1 (0000 -> 0002)
>>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
>>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.1 to 64
>>hda-intel: no codecs initialized
> 
> 
> This means that the driver is loaded but the codec wasn't found
> on the hardware.  It's rather a hardware issue, as it seems.

But the same card works with ALSA 1.0.15 - patched to support the 
Teradici controller - using a patch based on:

<http://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=121607380317261&w=2>

So how can it be a hardware issue?

I'm going to see if a more recent version of ALSA works ...

James Pearson