At Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:59:58 +1000, Travis Place wrote: > > Hey all, > > When working out an issue for a person in #alsa, i found that the onboard > sound in their laptop (A110-225) has the Subsystem IDs 1179:ff01 . The card > has an ALC861 codec.. the issue (non-fatal thankfully) is that the above > mentioned Subsystem IDs match in patch_realtek.c to 'dallas' which is for an > ALC861VD codec.. > > SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1179, 0xff01, "DALLAS", ALC861VD_DALLAS), > > The user was getting the non-fatal: > > hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC861, trying auto-probe from BIOS... > > in dmesg.. Note that this is *NO* error or warning at all. This is nothing but a info. Ideally, all hardwares should be handled in that way. Only hardwares that don't work with auto-probe should have the preset. > I had the user force the 'toshiba' model (which is valid for ALC861) and the > warning went away, and sound continues to work as it should.. > > Just wanted to make sure this problem (even though non-fatal) is documented, > and we are aware of it. Perhaps this laptop, and the 'Dallas' need to be > matched on some other level. ALC861 and ALC861VD are different codes, so they have independent preset tables. Maybe that's why. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
