[alsa-devel] terrible sound from my ALC850 / 880 [Alsa driver version 1.0.21] debian ( squeeze )

[Colin Kincaid Williams]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Colin Kincaid Williams <discord at uw.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm experiencing crap sound preformance from my ALC 850/880 chipset.
> I'm first wondering if their is a way to set the model other than the
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file? Can I try different models
> without rebooting? So far I've tried the model 6stack, since that
> sounds like what I have on my motherboard. Furthermore, does anybody
> have any ideas on what else I can do so that my computer can sound at
> least as good as my $20 coby mp3 player?
>
>
> cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
>
>
>
> The output from lspci :
>
>
> 00:10.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition
> Audio [10de:026c] (rev a2)
>        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:a102]
>        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
>        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22
>        Region 0: Memory at f5100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
>                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>                Masking: 00000000  Pending: 00000000
>        Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
>        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>