[alsa-devel] ALSA on Alienware M17x

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Tue Sep 1 17:01:08 CEST 2009


At Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:26:33 +0930,
Adam Gray wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:16:28 am Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > 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
> 
> After setting model=intel I now have the speakers working, but no headphones.

OK, then attach alsa-info.sh output at this point.

To be sure -- you got both headphones working with model=dell-m6?


Takashi


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