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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:49:39 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK.

Then it must be something in the driver communication.
Miles, do you have proper /dev/snd/* entries?


Takashi