Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 -- intel8x0 audio busted

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:11:52 +0200
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> At Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:55:32 -0700,
> Miles Lane wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't had working audio in 2.6.18-rc4-mm series (1,2,3).
> > I haven't been able to track down the cause yet.  The modules
> > all load, and there seems to be the expected enties in /proc,
> > but my sound preferences panel shows no available audio card.
> (snip)
> > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `alsactl' used the
> > obsolete sysctl system call
> > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `ls' used the
> > obsolete sysctl system call
> > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `alsactl' used the
> > obsolete sysctl system call
> > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `amixer' used the
> > obsolete sysctl system call
> > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `amixer' used the
> > obsolete sysctl system call
> 
> Are these messages relavant?  Even "ls" fails there...
> 

No, they're just a little warning we put in there to find out how
removeable sys_sysctl() is.  (Answer: not very.  I'll drop that patch).

It isn't relevant to this problem.