[Alsa-user] Cant get my Soundcard "nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)" work on HP Pavilion dv6010ea

[tknits k. <tkn...@go...>]

Hello.

I have seen that the Soundcard "nVidia Corporation MCP51 High
Definition Audio (rev a2)" should work with alsa. However, I cannot
get it working under my HP Pavilion dv6010ea Laptop.

First some Information about my System:

I am using Debian Etch

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# uname -r
2.6.18-4-486

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# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology
Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390
WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device
01d6 (rev a1)
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
07:05.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (r
ev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

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# lspci -n
00:00.0 0500: 10de:02f7 (rev a2)
00:00.1 0500: 10de:02fa (rev a2)
00:00.2 0500: 10de:02fe (rev a2)
00:00.3 0500: 10de:02f8 (rev a2)
00:00.4 0500: 10de:02f9 (rev a2)
00:00.5 0500: 10de:02ff (rev a2)
00:00.6 0500: 10de:027f (rev a2)
00:00.7 0500: 10de:027e (rev a2)
00:02.0 0604: 10de:02fc (rev a1)
00:03.0 0604: 10de:02fd (rev a1)
00:04.0 0604: 10de:02fb (rev a1)
00:09.0 0500: 10de:0270 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 0601: 10de:0260 (rev a3)
00:0a.1 0c05: 10de:0264 (rev a3)
00:0a.3 0b40: 10de:0271 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 0c03: 10de:026d (rev a3)
00:0b.1 0c03: 10de:026e (rev a3)
00:0d.0 0101: 10de:0265 (rev f1)
00:0e.0 0101: 10de:0266 (rev f1)
00:10.0 0604: 10de:026f (rev a2)
00:10.1 0403: 10de:026c (rev a2)
00:14.0 0680: 10de:0269 (rev a3)
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
05:00.0 0300: 10de:01d6 (rev a1)
07:05.0 0c00: 1180:0832
07:05.1 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 19)
07:05.2 0880: 1180:0843 (rev 01)
07:05.3 0880: 1180:0592 (rev 0a)
07:05.4 0880: 1180:0852 (rev 05)

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If any additional Information is needed, please ask, and I will try to give it.

I have tried to install the modules in three ways:

1. Using Debian's module-assistant
m-a a-i alsa

this worked. But running alsaconf, the Laptop freezed.

2. Using the Source-Deb from packages.debian.org - This didnt even compile.
3. Installing from the Source Tarball
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
using ./configure, make, make install, and the card-finding script,
and then alsaconf. This time, alsaconf didnt freeze, and I could load
the snd-hda-intel-module.

Anyway, no matter how I tried, the aftermath always was and is:
Trying to play a .wav (or Music from any other Sound-Application, even
"yes | aplay" and "yes > /dev/dsp"), makes my PC-Speakers play the
first (approx.) half-second of the Sound repeatingly, but not more, as
long as the Application runs. I can even hear more than one "channel"
(i.e. when using GAIM, multiple accustic Message-Arrived-Notifications
are played at the same time, but only the first half second, and are
repeated until I completely close GAIM).

Could somebody please help me? I have no Idea what to do.

Greetings
Tknits Kitsahcots