[alsa-devel] No sound with C-Media CMI8788

[Ozan Çağlayan]

Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> I wrote:
>   
>> In the file sound/pci/oxygen/oxygen_lib.c, after the line containing
>> "subdevice = oxygen_read_eeprom(chip, 2);" (about line number 262),
>> please add the line
>>
>>   printk(KERN_INFO "subdevice ID: %04x\n", subdevice);
>>     
>
> I think the cause for your unknown subdevice ID is that your card does
> not have an EEPROM chip.  (This is a feature, it saves you $0.25!)
> In this case, adding the following lines at that place should make
> the driver load correctly:
>
> 	if (subdevice == 0xffff)
> 		subdevice = 0x8788;
>   

Okay, that worked. But I assume that this is a device specific solution
right? If there are other cards without an EEPROM chip, forcing them to
0x8788 shouldn't make sense? How should this be correctly handled?

Thanks!