At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:39:33 -0800 (PST),
Jonathan Scruggs wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried many things to try to get my sound card to work, but no
> luck. At first with the when I started alsamixer, it would say that
> I have a generic sound card. My laptop has two audio interfaces: a
> nVidia HDMI and an IDT High Definition Codec. I read this mailing
> list and saw that many people had issues with the HP's version of
> the IDT sound card. Then someone added patches to fix an issue with
> DV4. The fixes were in the latest snapshots, so I did some
> searching and pulled the alsa sources from here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> since I am using the 2.6.28 kernel. I went through the code and
> confirmed that it was updated to what I saw in the patches and the
> patches were not compatible with the kernel source I have, hence I
> was looking for something more compatible. More specifically, the
> kernel I have is "2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #5 SMP Wed Feb 25 15:37:22 GMT
> 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
> Genuine Intel GNU/Linux". With a little bit of work, I merged in
> the new alsa source with that kernel and recompiled. Things are
> detected a bit better, like now alsamixer is saying that I have the
> chip "Nvidia MCP78 HDMI" instead of a Generic one. However, this is
> not the chip I want. I want to output to my speakers and headphone
> ports. I tried setting the option "model=hp-dv5" and then
> "model=hp-dv7" but that does nothing. I have absolutely no sound at
> all out of my speakers or headphone port. The drivers for this
> soundcard are on the HP website if you need them.
[Please fold lines appropriately when pointing to ML...]
Could you try the latest sound git tree? If it still doesn't work,
run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload and attach the generated file.
The script is found at
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
Note that there is no model value "hp-dv7". The only relevant one
is "hp-dv5".
thanks,
Takashi
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