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From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:00:43
Message-Id: 20110220085048.GA8009@satcidananda
1 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
2 > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +0000, Mick wrote
3 >
4 >> Ah ... mine have more. <F4> in alsamixer brings up all these Capture devices:
5 >>
6 >> Front Mic 67<>67
7 >> Mic 67<>67
8 >> Capture 80<>80
9 >> Capture 80<>80
10 >> Digital 61<>61
11 >> Digital 33<>33
12 >> Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
13 >> Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
14 >>
15 >> There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the
16 >> front left of the keyboard.
17 >
18 > Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I
19 > like it. My card shows up in "lspci -v" as...
20 >
21 > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
22 > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372
23 > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
24 > Memory at d0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
25 > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
26 > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
27 >
28 > alsamixer shows...
29 > Card: HDA ATI SB
30 > Chip: Realtek ALC272X
31 >
32 > One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a
33 > parameter. Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and
34 > I'm an absolute newbie on "alsa-driver". alsa-driver is keyworded
35 > ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it. Maybe even desparate enough
36 > to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS.
37 >
38 > If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have
39 > to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in "make menuconfig"...
40 >
41 >< > Sound card support --->
42 >
43 > Is that correct?
44
45 I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the
46 intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it
47 was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it
48 working without disabling audio in the kernel.
49
50 >Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in
51 > /etc/make.conf ?
52 >
53
54 ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
55
56 --
57 caveat utilitor
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