Re: No sound with 2.6.29-git5 vanilla through 2.6.30-rc1-git1 on hda-intel (F10 kernel has sound)

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:34:56 +0200,
> Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> > At Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:32:48 +0200,
>> > Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>> >>
>> >> My cursed Dell E6400 is turning up more issues I recall ever seeing
>> >>  in my 13.5 years of Linuxing -- wireless is unsupported in vanilla,
>> >>  X/VT switching moans, MTRR still complains, microcode WARNs on
>> >>  boot - and the joys of 64-bit Firefox with gnash and IcedTea...
>> >>
>> >> And now, sound only works in Fedora 10 with the F10 kernel, that is:
>> >>
>> >> 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64
>> >>
>> >>  but not with any vanilla kernel I built. So it might be me, of course; but
>> >>  the ALSA modules seem the same in the two kernels - where applicable
>> >>  (recent kernels have a hda-intel-codec module that doesn't seem to be
>> >>  loaded in the F10 kernel).
>> >
>> > snd-hda-codec-* modules are loaded automatically from snd-hda-intel.
>> > Do you have snd-hda-codec-idt module?
>> > It's enabled via CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y.
>> >
>> >
>> > Takashi
>>
>> Thanks Takashi -
>>
>>   no, I haven't that one; am I supposed to set to Y all codecs under the
>>   SND_HDA_INTEL tab ? And if not, how do I guess which one[s] ?
>
> Unless you are sure that you have no matching codecs, it's better to
> say all Y, especially if you are using modules.

That's what I did, and *poof* my audio is back on 2.6.30-rc2 !

Thanks a lot,

--alessandro

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