On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Hafthor Hlynur Valdemarsson wrote:
On Thursday 26. January 2006 00:03, Lee Revell wrote:
I don't think so. It's probably an everyday driver bug, due to new
hardware that is not completely supported yet.
Could be.........actually the most logical explanation.
It seems that no one with this Fujitsu laptop has working sound, does
that seem accurate to you, based on your googling?
Might be.........My goggling' has been chipset-type based.
snd-hda-intel is unfortunately very complex hardware and very new and
there's a lot of variety of different devices so this type of bug is
inevitable...
I agree. The inevitability of complexity is unfortunately my Achilles heel.
I based my theory on the following.
This problem is not Fujitsu specific. Analog Devices, Realtek Corp. and other
chipset manufacturers that use the Intel HDA Codec and PC & Notebook vendors
are not to blame. Linux users that run in to this problem, use a wide range
of vendor specific hardware, but have one thing in common, Intel's HDA Codec.
Unfortunately for this theory, I have a counterexample. I have an Intel HDA
card in my Intel motherboard computer (D915GAG), and I get sound.
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
It seems to work OK.
I have not tested it that much, but definitely can play sounds using aplay.
So I concluted that there must be something wrong with the code in alsa. I'm
no expert but I think some able person should look at the 'hda_codec.c' file
in the source-code (/alsa-driver/sound/pci/hda/). Call it a hunch............
