[alsa-devel] Intel alsa sound request for Laptops

[Takashi Iwai]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 13:46:57 +0100,
John Frankish wrote:
> 
> For two or three kernel versions of alsa divers now, HDMI has been the default alsa device on my laptop (Dell Latitude E7240) - this does not make logical sense.
> 
> In the latest kernel version I use, 4.2.9, alsa sound will not work at all unless I load the i915 kernel driver - this does not make logical sense and means that I cannot use Xvesa.
> 
> Is it possible to make an alsa feature request for analogue sound to be the default alsa device on laptops and for alsa sound to work without the need to load the i915 kernel driver?

It's a configuration issue.  Pass the module option if you prefer the
secondary device:

  options snd-hda-intel index=1,0


Takashi