sound problems

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Suren Karapetyan <
> surenkarapetyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Suren Karapetyan <
>>> surenkarapetyan at gmail.com <mailto:surenkarapetyan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Suren Karapetyan
>>>        <surenkarapetyan at gmail.com <mailto:surenkarapetyan at gmail.com>
>>>        <mailto:surenkarapetyan at gmail.com
>>>
>>>        <mailto:surenkarapetyan at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>           Yeah.. I know. fedora-devel is not a place for discussing
>>>        bugs but
>>>           I'll risk.
>>>
>>>           As (I hope) many of You already know kernel-2.6.27.9-159
>>>        which was
>>>           pushed as a security update has broken sound on many systems
>>>           (mostly notebooks) -
>>>           https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477954. The
>>>        reason for
>>>           this is the new ALSA (1.0.18a).
>>>
>>>           There are a lot of "+1"s and "me too"s in bugzilla and if we
>>>           consider the amount of people who don't know how to report
>>>        bugs,
>>>           add those who are on New Year holidays it becomes clear
>>>        that this
>>>           affects a lot of our users.
>>>
>>>           So users have two choices now:
>>>           1. Have no sound.
>>>           2. Stick with 2.6.27.9-134 (this is not as easy as it seems
>>>        cause
>>>           the new update will be downloaded and installed automatically).
>>>
>>>           I do understand that many developers are on holidays
>>>        themselves,
>>>           but I'm also sure this is a REAL problem which should be
>>>        resolved
>>>           ASAP.
>>>           So I just wanted to know what are we going to do about this.
>>>
>>>
>>>                You can try the latest alsa snapshot available in ATrpms:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-x86_64/atrpms/bleeding/alsa-kmdl-2.6.27.9-159.fc10-1.0.18a.snap-74.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>>
>>> http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-i386/atrpms/bleeding/alsa-kmdl-2.6.27.9-159.fc10-1.0.18a.snap-74.fc10.i686.rpm
>>>
>>>        It has a lot of recent fixes and it is working just fine for
>>>        me and for others. I also had no sound with kernel 159, before
>>>        installing this new alsa.
>>>
>>>        If you remove the rpm later, you go back to the original sound
>>>        modules (nothing is overwritten).
>>>
>>>        Good luck.
>>>
>>>
>>>        --        Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>>>        LCG - UFRJ
>>>
>>>    Still doesn't work.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you rebooted?
>>>
>>>
>>>
> I have a dell vostro 1400, which uses the sigmatel codec (STAC9200)
>
> It is working just fine with the snapshot, but I have to specify the model
> in /etc/modprobe.conf. These are the results I got for all possible models:
>
>
> # the position_fix parameter seems to end xruns in jack
> # model=ref           - sound in headphone only, analog mic work. No
> digital mic.
> # model=3stack,5stack - no sound at all.
> # model=dell-3stack   - sound works for headphones and speakers, no analog
> mic. Digital mic is really too low (unusable for practical purposes).
>
> Therefore, the one which works for me, is:
>
> options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=dell-3stack
>
>
>
In fact, my codec is Sigmatel STAC9228.



-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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