The latest asla is 1.0.13 When playing with very recent soundcards, you need to use the very latest alsa. That does not mean it will work but it has a higher probability. the hda have been especially problematic apparently. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Mark Ryden wrote: > Hello, > > I am posting again after there was probably some technical problem > with my message; it is the same message, if anybody got it: > > I have a no sound problem on a Fedora 5 machine (x86_64) > running Athlon 3800+ AMD. I am wrestling with this > problem for some days now without any success. > > the sound card I have ,according to > "aplay -l", is : > > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > > I looked over the net for this kind of error; it seems to me that > the essence of the problem is that the current also driver > does not support ALC882. Probably true. In which case there is no way of swearing at it, or begging others for help, to get it to work. > > When I perform : > rmmod snd_hda_intel > modprobe snd_hda_intel > I see in the kernel log the following message > Oct 1 08:10:46 kernel: hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC882, trying > auto-probe from BIOS... > > > After seeing this message, I tried these things: > 2) after looking at ALSA support page , in: > http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/ > > I had installed alsa-driver-1.0.12.tar.bz2. > it did not help- still the same error and no sound. 1.0.13 is the latest. 1.0.12 is a month and a half old. No guarentee that the new alsa supports your card. > > > 1) perform yum upgrade kernel. > > now the kernel version is 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 > (it was 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 before). > > Still this did not help. Why would that help? the kernels use alsa if that is an older version of alsa , that is hardly likely to help. > > I am sure that there is nothing which is muted, etc. > > I know that such an error occurred on acer laptops with ALC883. > (see , for example, the > Changelog between 1.0.12 and 1.0.13rc1 releases > in http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-12--v1-0-13rc1.txt) > Well, now, it sounds like maybe they actually did something for version 13. > I also saw a bug report about acer and ALC882 (and a patch for acer) > in ALSA bugtracking system; also there , the indication for a > problem was the kernel message "hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC882, trying > auto-probe from BIOS..." > And what did the bugtraq say? > > currently when I run : cat /proc/asound/version > I get : > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc4 (Wed Mar 22 > 10:27:24 2006 UTC). Again, that is even older. It is pre 1.0.11 so if 1.0.12 does not work, it is highlyunlikely that an even older one will work. > > But as I said, with the previous kernel I tried > installin alsa-driver-1.0.12.tar.bz2 and it did not help. Try 13. > > > Any ideas ? > > Any help will be appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
