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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:07:55
Message-Id: ikbsph$8qn$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound by dhk
1 On 02/15/2011 02:43 AM, dhk wrote:
2 > On 02/14/2011 12:29 PM, walt wrote:
3 >> On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> What are the "Intel HD Audio" codecs? I don't
6 >>> remember doing anything explicitly for them. How do I check them?
7 >>> Thanks.
8 >>
9 >> Under the HD-Intel sound card driver menu there are several codecs for
10 >> specific sound chips. e.g. I use the one for realtek, but yours may be
11 >> a different one. Doesn't hurt to build them all as modules and see which
12 >> one(s) your kernel actually uses.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >>
16 >
17 > It looks like all the codec's are built in. I'm not sure what the last
18 > one in the list does.
19 >
20 > # grep -i realtek /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86_64-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
21 > CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY=m
22 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
23 > # grep -i codec /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86_64-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
24 > CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
25 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
26 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y
27 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y
28 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y
29 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y
30 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y
31 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y
32 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y
33 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y
34 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=y
35 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y
36 > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y
37 > # CONFIG_SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS is not set
38 >
39 > This is the genkernel so pretty much everything is built in.
40
41 There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got audio
42 only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules, but he has
43 no idea why (nor do I) but, as no one yet has a better idea, I'd try it as
44 an experiment.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>