[Alsa-user] Dell Inspiron 910 snd-hda-intel problem

[Andrew B. <b3...@gm...>]

Hello world,
I'm trying to get sound working on my Dell Inspiron 910 netbook. It has 
an Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02). 
I have compiled the alsa-driver-1.0.21 modules and they load with no 
problem. Alsamixer works, I've unmuted all the levels and set them at 
100%. The system bell works through the speakers.
The problem is that I can't get the speakers to work for anything other 
than the system bell. speaker-test responds with

andy:~$ speaker-test

speaker-test 1.0.21

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:977:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
Playback open error: -38,Function not implemented
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:977:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
Playback open error: -38,Function not implemented


I've put these lines in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:-


options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=dell


If I change the model option to something else (3stack,toshiba or acer) 
then alsamixer gives me some different options but still sound doesn't 
work (except for the annoying system bell). I ran the utils_alsa-info.sh 
script, it's output can be seen here 
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=10b783c1178e1fea3676ff54c97da1290f88d0d9
Thanks for reading this.

Andy
(Andrew Benton)