snd-hda-intel

[Jobbe]

I have a relatively new laptop (Samsung X60) with an inbuilt hda-intel card. The sound didn't use to work at all (in kernel would crash, alsa-driver didn't work either), but today I tried upgrading to gentoo-sources 2.6.16 and -> it's working! But not perfectly, maybe you guys have some ideas how to fix my problems. Nothing seems to be physically broken, I tried to run Win and everything works perfectly.

- Speakers not working at all.
- Headphones working, but there is a permanent, very annoying beep (very much like a sinus wave, just at a very high pitch) on the _left_ channel. The right channel is perfect.

The above doesn't seem to be connected to arts/gstreamer etc, switching those doesn't do anything.

I have the driver compiled as a module (not using alsa-driver, which is not encouraged anyway for 2.6.16)

Uh... yeah, I hope all of this wasn't too confused

[Icer]

To get audio working use snd_hda_intel kernel module. I also have snd_intel_codec as a module. Everything else is compiled into kernel. snd_hda_intel is compiled as a module so you can pass parameters to the module. Edit /etc/modules.d/alsa. Add this line: 'options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=2' in the file. Then run modules-update and /etc/init.d/alsasound restart. Next try alsamixer. You should have working audio now and 'Card: HDA NVidia Chip: Realtek ALC880' in the alsamixer headers. You can also try download alsa patch/drivers but I've not had to resort to that.

Hmm... dunno if you need to emerge alsamixer too

I just cut paste from my previous post so you propably need just edit the alsa module. Also I dunno if you have ALC880 audio chip but you should see your audio chip name mentioned in the alsa mixer header.

[Jobbe]

Hey, thanks for your reply.
My chip is AD1986A, and your fix didn't work...

[Icer]