>From my experience (two different laptops) I've never have been able to stablize the driver. I've always had a hitch or two. My previous laptop everything worked by the headphones (required a third party patch just to get working) and they only played in the left ear (except when used through VLC. My current laptop doesn't have a working microphone, nor does it mute the speaker when playing. Maybe there needs to be plugins for different hardware sets or seperate versions of the hda intel driver. -Steven Hicks Graduate Student Department Of Computer Science University Of North Carolina at Charlotte On Sunday 07 June 2009 21:18:16 Jamie Lokier wrote: > Daren Krive wrote: > > I do not mean to be negative but I am seriously wondering. Do most > > Linux users simply learn to live without sound? Or live with sound > > that does not operate as expected? I have been searching for over a > > year on how to get sound working on my LG QB01A9 notebook to no > > avail. > > I have two laptops running Linux over the years, and sound has varied > a lot as I upgraded and updated the distro. It works with some kernel > versions, doesn't work with some kernel versions, with some of them it > works but the sound is distorted, and with some of them output works > but recording does not. > > > Every time I ask the question i get pointed to the same 6 URL's that > > deal with getting Intel HDA working and then I hear nothing more. I > > have *tried* this and it doesn't work. Please help me!! > > I am really starting to wonder if getting sound to work is a pipe > > dream :-( > > Intel HDA seems to be particularly awkward. It's the one I've had > most problems with - so many different behaviours with each kernel > version, as described above. > > I understand that Intel HDA hardware is wired up in lots of different > ways in different laptops, unfortunately, so there needs to be some > special code for many laptops in addition to the HDA driver. > > But that doesn't explain why new kernels every few months behave so > differently on my Intel HDA laptop. > > Hopefully someone will produce laptops that use standard-ish USB sound > internally sometime, like they already do with Bluetooth, Wifi and > memory card readers. > > Certainly I'll be testing my next laptop with distro CDs before buying > it, if the next one comes with Intel HDA. In theory HDA is a good > idea but it's a mess in practice. > > -- Jamie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and > enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
