> > > > > > > That said, if you boot without i915, drop the index option. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I booted without i915 and did not set any index options (the > > > > > > default behaviour of tinycorelinux is to boot clean like a > > > > > > live-CD > > > > > > distro) > > > > > > > > > > > Ah OK, that's the way the current HD-audio driver behaves. > > > > > It takes the card at first, then it leaves when the i915 component binding fails (like nomodeset). > > > > > It's good to keep the device assignment consistent. OTOH, it may leave the card#0 empty as a result. > > > > > So this is the expected behavior. > > > > > > > > > Great - so the expected behaviour is for it to fail :P > > > > > > Yeah, "fail" to your expectation, unfortunately. > > > > > >The nomodeset or whatever disabling KMS itself is already the hackish workaround, and it's in a sort of abnormal state. > > > > > I disagree - in fact I was wrong to state that Xorg was using the modesetting driver, further down Xorg.0.log > > I see that the modesetting driver is unloaded and the vesa driver is used instead. > > > > The use of the vesa driver is not hackish and especially not when i915 has a serious bug and the Intel driver is not stable. > > Such a buggy state *is* already abnormal, no? > It should be fixed instead of the forever workaround. > I found four or five bug reports for i915, but nothing indicating that it was fixed in the latest kernel versions. (I'm using 4.2.9) > > > > Is there any chance of that being fixed in the future? > > > > > > > As already mentioned, the "fix" is to use PA. > > > > > Using pulseaudio is not going to fix the broken analogue sound when > > the i915 driver is not loaded > > Did you really test it? If yes, please give the log. > As per earlier in the thread: $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3226 Analog [ALC3226 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 $ alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such file or directory _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
