On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:22:44PM -0400, Slaven Peles wrote: > On April 19, 2004 04:37 pm, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:30:03PM -0400, Slaven Peles wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Some people have reported that upgrade to 2.6.5 solved their sound > > > problems, but in my case 2.6.5 "turned" sound off. I am running sid with > > > debian precompiled kernel (2.6.5-1-686), I use alsa, and I have Intel's > > > onboard sound card: > > > > > > 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) > > > AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) > > > > 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 > > Audio Controller (rev 01) > > > > This works with 2.6.5 > > > > I believe it should, but I get no sound whatsoever. The puzzling thing is > that > I get all kernel modules loaded properly and I can't find any error messages. > Moreover, the sound works fine if I boot 2.6.4 kernel (both Debian > precompiled -686 kernels). > > The only difference between the two cases I could notice so far is that for > the kernel 2.6.5 driver snd_intel8x0m is loaded. So, for the case with no > sound lsmod gives me something like: > ... > snd_intel8x0 34824 2 > snd_ac97_codec 65124 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 > snd_pcm 99236 5 snd_intel8x0m,snd_dummy,snd_intel8x0 > snd_timer 25924 1 snd_pcm > snd_page_alloc 11332 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_dummy,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > .... > > while in the case when sound works (kernel 2.6.4) lsmod gives me > ... > snd_intel8x0 34376 0 > snd_ac97_codec 63492 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_pcm 101316 2 snd_dummy,snd_intel8x0 > snd_timer 25956 1 snd_pcm > ...
A proper report for LKML is probably more appropriate. Honestly 2.6.x series has a quite a few issues also for me on some boxes. I have not got a working kernel for pcspkr and radeonfb for instance on the same laptop... -- Francesco P. Lovergine
