Re: [Alsa-user] No sound from Intel Realtek ALC887

[David R. A. <dr...@op...>]

On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:59:03 Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:41:45 Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> You should install these kernel modules. If you don't know how, please,
> post this question to support for your Linux distribution. It's not an
> ALSA problem.

Of course I should.

I didn't have sound with this kernel either, but I use the new one
to get Xorg.

Output of uname -a  
Linux hydra 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sat Dec 26 09:26:36 UTC 2009 i686 
GNU/Linux

Output of lsmod | grep snd:
snd_hda_intel         326584  1 
snd_pcm_oss            33568  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13088  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                63492  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           3428  0 
snd_seq_oss            25760  0 
snd_seq_midi            6496  0 
snd_rawmidi            19264  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      7200  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                42224  6 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              18568  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          7148  5 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    46404  9 
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7136  2 snd
snd_page_alloc          8648  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
dra@hydra[Thu Feb 11](12:19:25)~$ 

Doesn't it matter that the ALC887 is not among the Models?

dra@hydra[Thu Feb 11](12:25:14)~$ zcat /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/HD-
Audio-Models.txt.gz | grep ALC887
dra@hydra[Thu Feb 11](12:26:19)~$ zcat /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/HD-
Audio-Models.txt.gz | grep ALC
ALC880
ALC260
ALC262
ALC267/268
ALC269
ALC662/663/272
  dell		Dell with ALC272
  dell-zm1	Dell ZM1 with ALC272
ALC882/883/885/888/889
  3stack-2ch-dig	3-jack with SPDIF I/O (ALC883)
  alc883-6stack-dig	6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O (ALC883)
  intel-alc889a	Intel IbexPeak with ALC889A
  intel-x58	Intel DX58 with ALC889
ALC861/660
  3stack-660	3-jack (for ALC660)
ALC861VD/660VD
  3stack-660	3-jack (for ALC660VD)
  3stack-660-digout 3-jack with SPDIF OUT (for ALC660VD)
dra@hydra[Thu Feb 11](12:26:29)~$ 

This won't be true of a newer alsa version?

Regards, daveA