A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== <https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2217> ====================================================================== Reported By: mafm Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: ALSA - driver Issue ID: 2217 Category: PCI - intel8x0 Reproducibility: always Severity: major Priority: normal Status: new Distribution: Kernel Version: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 06-18-2006 05:06 CEST Last Modified: 06-24-2006 09:12 CEST ====================================================================== Summary: Problems with ASUS A6Km Description: I have the same problems described here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1898 , but I'm opening a new report because I can't find a way to add a comment there. I tried that asus-a6km-fix.diff but it doesn't work, in fact it doesn't appear to have any effect at all. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mafm - 06-23-06 16:23 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I got it working with 1.0.11 and 1.0.12, so I'll repeat the steps to make it clear: 0- These instructions work for me in ASUS A6KM-Q0012H model (note that slightly different configurations seem to lead to slightly different problems with ACPI, sound, things that work with some BIOS versions but not with other, etc). In my case, the problem was that to get any kind of sound being emitted I had to connect the headphones and put Master and PCM volumes at > 70% values, and then I got to hear something, but with a lot of distorsion, making it unusable. Most/all A6KM models seem to have this issue. The output of lspci -v is: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 1103 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22 I/O ports at e400 [size=256] I/O ports at e000 [size=128] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- If you're using up to 2.6.17 vanilla kernels (as opposed to kernels including additional patches, most distributions do this, as well as snapshots in kernel.org site), you'll need the patch attached (grabbed from https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1898 ). Apply the patch with: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # cd /usr/src/linux-VERSION/sound # patch -p1 < /PATH/asus-a6km-fix.diff --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then configure and compile as usual. 2- At this point I had it still working as before. As opposed to comments in other bug reports, in my case I don't need to mess with echo commands to alter registers of the cards, nor altering surround configurations or anything like that (in fact, I couldn't get it working with any of those tricks). Instead, what I had to do is to enable External Amplifier, in KDE mixer is in the Switches tab. Note that the alsamixer interface is a bit confusing: it's a switch, so "MM" means muted, and when enabled shows "00" (when using alsamixer I thought that it was another regular slider, so since I could only get it to show MM or 00 I thought that it was another symptom of the driver not setting up the device properly). 3- Please comment here whether this works for you or not, including meaningful information (in the case that it's not working, pleae include kernel versions and who distributes it, alsa version that the kernel use, exact model of the laptop, output of the device with lspci -v, etc), so hopefully ALSA guys can put the instructions in their site, maybe I make a guide with configuration instructions for this laptop, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eNTi - 06-24-06 09:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i'm honestly not sure, what you want me to check. yes i've ONCE made my speakers work and the external amplifier setting had to be turned on. the patch you've posted, is already in 2.6.17, so there won't be any changes of course. just check the files for yourself, i wonder, that you didn't get any errors, from your patch. i've currently compiled another vanilla 2.6.17 kernel and still had no luck whatsoever with that stupid sound chip. i'm starting to think, that i'll never buy another asus notebook again, they really suck hard. broken sound, broken bios/acpi. sucky touchpad... next time i'll pay the 1000 bucks extra for an ibm :(. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 06-18-06 05:06 mafm New Issue 06-18-06 16:51 ryswic Issue Monitored: ryswic 06-19-06 15:49 mafm Issue Monitored: mafm 06-19-06 15:50 mafm Note Added: 0010315 06-20-06 19:46 tiwai Note Added: 0010345 06-20-06 20:16 mafm Note Added: 0010354 06-21-06 21:37 eNTi Note Added: 0010405 06-21-06 22:24 rlrevell Note Added: 0010406 06-21-06 22:33 mafm Note Added: 0010407 06-21-06 22:48 eNTi Note Added: 0010408 06-22-06 00:10 mafm Note Added: 0010410 06-23-06 15:27 mafm Note Added: 0010451 06-23-06 15:55 mafm File Added: asus-a6km-fix.diff 06-23-06 16:23 mafm Note Added: 0010454 06-24-06 09:12 eNTi Note Added: 0010467 ====================================================================== Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? 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