linux-kernel - Re: HDA: no sound [was: mmotm 2010-10-20-15-01 uploaded]

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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:29:17 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	clemens@...isch.de, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: HDA: no sound [was: mmotm 2010-10-20-15-01 uploaded]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:40:08 +0200, Takashi Iwai said:
> > >>>   commit de8c85f7840e5e29629de95f5af24297fb325e0b
> > >>>     ALSA: HDA: Sigmatel: work around incorrect master muting
> > >>
> > >> Reverting this one helps.
> > > 
> > > The latter one?
> > 
> > Yeah. Otherwise I would write it to the former :).

Confirming - reverting that one commit fixes sound on my Dell laptop as
well.

> This might be a user-space issue, then.

That would be icky, if we have to lockstep a 2.6.37 kernel upgrade to
an alsa-lib upgrade.  Stuff like udev and perf having to lockstep is
bad enough...

> Could you try once the latest alsa-lib?  If you are using SUSE packages,
> the snapshot rpms are available on OBS multimedia:audio:snapshot/alsa
> repo.  (The version number of the package is still 1.0.22, but don't
> care; I just forgot to change the spec file.

Hmm... on my laptop, Fedora Rawhide is showing:

% rpm -qi alsa-lib
Name        : alsa-lib                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0.23                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.fc14                        Build Date: Fri 16 Apr 2010 07:48:17 AM EDT
Install Date: Sun 18 Apr 2010 03:22:04 PM EDT      Build Host: x86-02.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc14.src.rpm
Size        : 1188301                          License: LGPLv2+
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.alsa-project.org/
Summary     : The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library
Description :
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI
functionality to the Linux operating system.

Is that "recent enough", or do I need to find something newer?

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