Poor Sound Quality on Macbook[SOLVED]

bobber205 · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Oregon

Before you guys link https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-566866-highlight-poor+sound+quality.html I've seen it.

I added ACPI support for my mobo and did make && make modules_install.

I rebooted the kernel. No sound. Tried my older kernel that DID have sound. Nothing.

What do I do? I tried taking ACPI out and running that make command again. Booted that kenel. nothing works

EDIT
Commented out #options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=1 in my /etc/modules.d/alsa file
Did update-modules, then restarted the sound. Sound is back.

Weird thing is one time I did have that line in there, I got perfect sound. Now it often prevents any sound and when it doesn't, the sound is still poor quality.
model=macbook does not work either.
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nixnut · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Multimedia.
Not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here.
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bobber205 · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Oregon

Sorry 'bout that. I can't imagine why I posted it here.
Was solved by taking out ALL alsa support in the kernel and just having Sound Card Support enabled.
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musicman · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 66

Really? How does that work? When do the soundcard drivers get loaded, then, if they're not compiled as either modules or into the kernel?

I have not successfully gotten sound output to work on my Santa Rosa Macbook - has anyone gotten it working on this new model?