[Alsa-user] intel8x0 and kernel 2.6.5

[Gil D. <gi...@di...>]

Hello there,

Ever since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.5 alsa fails to work on my laptop,

Alsa worked pretty much flawlessly with 2.4.x.
When I upgraded to 2.6 (.3) I noticed that I can only change the master 
volume, changing the PCM wouldn't do anything which was pretty annoying but 
I managed..
Same problem occurred with 2.6.4.
Yesterday I finally had the time to build 2.6.5 (I saw many alsa stuff on 
the changelog and hoped it might rectify the previous issue). Alas - the 
sound has stopped working completely.
No matter what I do (cleaning /etc/modules.conf and running alsaconf again 
(voodoo, I know ;), manually loading modules, making sure that all slides 
on the alsamixer at at maximum, building alsa-driver 1.0.4 (and not using 
the kernel's snapshot)) - nada, the sound is not working, mplayer (tried a 
few "simpler" apps as well) is opening the alsa device but no sound comes out.

OSS module is working fine.

Slackware-current
2.6.5
Dell D600
lspci shows: Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 
Audio Controller (rev 01)

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks.


Regards

Gil Disatnik
UNIX system administrator.

GibsonLP@EFnet
http://gil.disatnik.com

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