[crossposting to alsa-devel as adviced in ALSA-Configuration.txt]
> The model option is _the_ important option for HD-audio driver.
> It overrides the configuration preset. As default, the driver reads
> the PCI (subsystem) IDs to identify which configuration preset to
> use. If not found, the driver does a guess work from the BIOS setup
> in most cases.
>
> Now, since many laptops are shipped with broken BIOS and the guess
> work is imperfect, you often face the famous problem -- "sound
> doesn't work" (great words that explain everything). Then you can
> pass model option for the preset designed for anohter hardware
> (e.g. model=thinkpad) to make the driver probe as if it's such a
> hardware. If you are lucky, your device is similar with others, and
> the driver works with such a preset. If not, we'd need to hack
> another preset for matching with your device.
>
> The list of available model option is found in
> ALSA-Configuration.txt.
So it seems the Dell XPS M1710 isn't yet listed among the known models
and also does not seem to be detected properly (as of hg20070816).
'lspci -v' gives:
...
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01ce
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at efffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
...
'lspci -nv' gives:
...
00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:01ce
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at efffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
...
Anything else I could do to help getting it (fully) supported ?
Best,
Michael
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