[64studio-devel] laptop success, also Re: 2.6.18-3 + rt7 is OUT for testing

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:23 -0600, Ben Loftis wrote:
> Ah, sorry, I didn't see the alsa modules package.
> 
> Uninstalling ALSA from source and installing Free's module .deb brought 
> ALSA back to life.  Unfortunately I still have the problem with the 
> onboard sound but that's a different issue.

Check the ALSA lists and bug tracker for some possibilities for getting
onboard sound working.  "hda-intel" is almost meaningless for debugging
- you must debug based on your codec.

<rant>

Intel really made a mess with the HDA design - it's way too flexible,
and requires too much hardware knowledge in the driver, to the point
that each laptop/mobo must be debugged separately.

It's almost as if there was an intent to make things as hard as possible
for Linux users, without closing the drivers...

</rant>

Lee