[alsa-devel] Intel alsa sound request for Laptops

[John Frankish]

> > > That said, if you boot without i915, drop the index option.
> > >
> > I booted without i915 and did not set any index options (the default 
> > behaviour of tinycorelinux is to boot clean like a live-CD distro)
> > 
> Ah OK, that's the way the current HD-audio driver behaves.
> It takes the card at first, then it leaves when the i915 component binding fails (like nomodeset).
> It's good to keep the device assignment consistent.  OTOH, it may leave the card#0 empty as a result.
> So this is the expected behavior.
> 
Great - so the expected behaviour is for it to fail :P

Is there any chance of that being fixed in the future?