Intel Sound Problems (was The Name of the Lord. And ...)

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:01:00 -0700
"Christopher A. Williams" <fedoralists at cawllc.com> wrote:

I'm pretty sure that this:

> >     ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1207:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card

is the cause of this:

> > Also, in ~/.xsession-errors I'm seeing:
> >     ** (gnome-session:2890): WARNING **: Could not start esd: Failed to
> >     execute child process "/usr/bin/esd" (No such file or directory)

After all, it wouldn't be logical to have a sound daemon running without a
sound card.

There are a ton of options that can go in /etc/modprobe.conf for sound.  For
example, I set up a laptop a short while ago that required these options:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba

There are all kinds of other model= options available.  One of them is quite
likely what you need to get your machine going.

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