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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:47:38
Message-Id: koj9th$nu3$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality by Chris Stankevitz
1 On 04/06/13 01:47, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Are you using a self-configured kernel? What sound chip is in your laptop?
4 >> What driver are you using? If it's an Intel codec, have you tried enabling
5 >> all different variants of that codec in the kernel?
6 >
7 >[...]
8 > 3. I am using the driver CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL
9
10 OK, that one is the generic driver. You most probably need to also
11 enable the specific codec driver for your chip (not all "Intel HD" chips
12 are the same.)
13
14 The way I figured out which one to enable was to boot Ubuntu from a CD
15 and then examine the output of "lsmod". There I found which codec
16 driver it uses. I then enabled that driver in my kernel.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>