In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +0000, Mick wrote > >> Ah ... mine have more. <F4> in alsamixer brings up all these Capture >> devices: >> >> Front Mic 67<>67 >> Mic 67<>67 >> Capture 80<>80 >> Capture 80<>80 >> Digital 61<>61 >> Digital 33<>33 >> Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) >> Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) >> >> There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the >> front left of the keyboard. > > Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I > like it. My card shows up in "lspci -v" as... > > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 > Memory at d0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel > > alsamixer shows... > Card: HDA ATI SB > Chip: Realtek ALC272X > > One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a > parameter. Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and > I'm an absolute newbie on "alsa-driver". alsa-driver is keyworded > ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it. Maybe even desparate enough > to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS. > > If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have > to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in "make menuconfig"... > >< > Sound card support ---> > > Is that correct?
I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it working without disabling audio in the kernel. >Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in > /etc/make.conf ? > ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
