[alsa-devel] Creative ca0132 on Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 motherboard: no sound

[Scott Doty]

On 03/03/2016 01:41 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> I guess this is a very long-standing known issue with CA0132 codec
> support.  The codec driver, or more exactly, the given firmware blob,
> is very specific to some models (Chromebook Pixel, the old Creative
> CA0132 boards and some old Alienware machines), and the recent
> Creative models don't work with it well.
>
> There have been some struggles, but no good solution found yet.
>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111021
>
>
> Takashi
Thank you for the reply!

As a first step, I immediately applied the patches attached to the bug
report above, which, alas, does not seem to have solved the problem.

I will post that, as well as further reports, under the bug report.

 -Scott