Re: [tlug] further adventures in reinstalling ALSA from source

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:19:51PM +0900, scott wrote:
> Hi TLUG,
> 
> Well, after days of extensive googling, I've realized that recently a
> lot of people are having problems with ALSA sound on their laptops,
> especially ones with an intel-hda 82801G chip, regardless of distro. An
> Ubuntu thread mentioned solving this by re-installing ALSA from source,
> so I decided to hunker down and give it a shot. 

I thought it was just the Acer laptops.  :)

(Though not sure if it's the same chip.)

With the Acers, one adds the line

options snd-intel-hda model=acer

to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.

(In Fedora, those of us with the issue created the file. Of course,
Fedora has had a bunch of other sound issues, so it gets difficult to
pin down--they take the bleeding part of bleeding edge quite seriously.)

In Ubuntu, one needed to do apt-get install linux-backport-modules, then
add the above line to alsa-base.  

However it doesn't surprise me to hear that there is an alsa problem--as
one of Godwin's sigs says about Palladium, it's the answer to a question
no one asked.   (An exaggeration, but really, I've noticed little or no
improvement in quality over OSS and a great deal more aggravation.
Fedora is now using pulseaudio by default which makes it more
problematic.)

Sigh, perhaps this is a Windows type thought, but it's 2007.  Sound
should just work and I shouldn't have to google or look at a doc to make
it so.  

(Although of course, my users will tell you it's not always the case in
Windows either.)   :)



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