Re: [gentoo-amd64] sudden sound loss

[Mark Haney]

Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> I had the same problem on an NVIDIA 430, alsamixer levels ok, sound
> unmuted, no syslog errors, after boot sound was ok but when I tried to
> change the volume it muted and I had to reboot to get it back. It turned
> out that the default card model for the alsa driver had changed to one
> not compatible with mine (6 jacks vs 3 jacks). I added one option on the
> kernel command line ('snd-had-intel model=3stack', default is 6stack)
> and now it is again ok.
>
> I doubt it applies to your case, but better than nothing... You might
> try to check
> the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt for
> any changes that apply to your driver.
>
> raf
>
>

I'll do that, but it doesn't make a lot of sense for it to work 
flawlessly for over a month with the same configuration then suddenly 
stop working.  At least not without logging some sort of hardware 
problem, which I'm not seeing.

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