[alsa-devel] ALSA on Alienware M17x

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:09:14 +0930,
Adam Gray wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:04:48 am you wrote:
> > At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:21:20 +0930,
> > 
> > Adam Gray wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I'm having a lot of trouble getting sound out of my Alienware M17x. I've
> > > attached the output from alsa-info. I'm running kernel version 2.6.28
> > > with ALSA driver version 1.0.18.
> > 
> > 1.0.18 is very old.  Any chance to try the later version?
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> 
> I'm now running with the latest version (1.0.21), initially with the same 
> results. After some fiddling I've managed to get the headphones working by 
> adding:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6
> 
> to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. But still no speakers.

Try model=intel first.  This will use the BIOS setup together with
GPIO1.


Takashi