[alsa-devel] Since kernel-2.6.32 alsactl thinks my sound card is "Unknown"

[David Henningsson]

2010-09-02 11:26, Pacho Ramos skrev:
> El jue, 02-09-2010 a las 10:29 +0200, Takashi Iwai escribió:
>> Rejected by SPF lookup: (recv=llar.net.uniovi.es,
>>  send-ip=195.135.220.2) Could not find a valid SPF record
>> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9
>>  (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0
>>  (HANACHIRUSATO)
>> References: <1283357723.8159.4.camel at localhost.localdomain>
>>
>> At Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:15:23 +0200,
>> Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>>
>>> This is an old problem I am suffering since kernel-2.6.32 and that is
>>> still unresolved even with 2.6.35 and alsa-utils-1.0.23:
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31422.html
>>>
>>> If you follow the thread, it got stalled in:
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31433.html
>>>
>>> In summary, I get the following:
>>> # alsactl -f /etc/asound.state restore /dev/snd/controlC0 
>>> Unknown hardware: "VIA8237" "Realtek ALC658D" "AC97a:414c4781" "0x147b"
>>> "0x1415"
>>> Hardware is initialized using a guess method
>>> # echo $?
>>> 99
>>
>> This is no error.  It means that alsactl has no special workaround
>> for your hardware.  The return code of alsactl looks strange.
>> I thought Jaroslav has already fixed it, though...
>>
>>
>> Takashi
>>
> 
> Well, Jaroslav fixed it to use "99" instead of "157":
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31430.html
> 
> And, about the message, could it be reworded for preventing to make
> users think their hardware is "Unknown"? Maybe it could simply show "No
> workaround needed for: ..." instead of "Unknown hardware"

Perhaps "Generic" hardware?

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