[alsa-devel] Conexant CX20585 recording does not work

[David Henningsson]

On 2011-04-07 15:21, Gabriel Schulhof wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, April 7, 2011 15:42, David Henningsson wrote:
>> Please try the model quirk "hp-laptop". In Ubuntu that would be adding
>> the line:
>>
>> options snd-hda-intel model=hp-laptop
>>
>> to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
>
> Tried it. It did streamline the options available in alsamixer, but it
> didn't make recording work.
>
> I tried the skype test call, as well as arecord, and both did not only not
> record anything, but they didn't even record static. That is, the
> recording device seems to block! For example, the skype test call beeps
> before it plays back my recorded voice, and afterwards. Well, the two
> beeps were consecutive for me :(
>
> Also, arecord with no options outputs to the terminal. It output the
> header for the sound file, but the cursor did not start to fly across the
> terminal drawing all kinds of junk.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,

I saw you had an AMD/ATI controller of the type we're discussing in 
parallel in the thread about "HDA record fails with FIFO error", it 
might be that you're bitten by that bug as well...

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