Gustav Degreef wrote:
I hope someone can shed some light on this problem. I've been working on this for months and have tried the alsa users list.
I would like to update alsa to try to get a micorophone to work with my laptop. I am using Suse 10 .1 with kernel 2.6.16.27-0.6-smp. The sound card on my laptop (a HP DV2035us) works but not the microphone.
some specs on my soundcard: #lspci 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) #cat /proc/asound/dev0/codec#0 Codec: Generic 14f1 ID 5047
I have
alsa-firmware-1.0.13-0.pm.0 alsa-devel-1.0.13-0.pm.0 alsa-docs-1.0.13-0.pm.0 alsa-plugins-1.0.10-15 alsa-tools-gui-1.0.11-16 alsa-tools-1.0.13-0.pm.1 alsa-1.0.13-0.pm.0 alsamixergui-0.9.0rc1-558
The following tar.bz2 packages are availbble from
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver
* Driver 1.0.14rc2 * Library 1.0.14rc2 * Lib-plugins 1.0.14rc2 * Utilities 1.0.14rc2 * Tools 1.0.14rc1 * Firmware 1.0.14rc2 * OSS Compat. Library 1.0.12
But I want to maintain the integrity of the rpm database by creating rpms of those packages using checkinstall.
I did the following:
$> bunzip2 alsa-driver-1.0.14rc1.tar.bz2 $> tar -xvf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2.tar $> ./configure --with-debug=full --with-cards=hda-intel $> make $> su -, then root passwd : $#>checkinstall
I built rpm's of all the new (1.0.14rc2) packages I listed in the same way. Then installed the seven new rpm's
rpm -Uvh alsa*.rpm
found all the audio modules $#> lsmod |grep -i snd
Removed all modules $#>rmmod snd_hda_intel $#>rmmod snd_hda_codec $#>rmmod snd_pcm $#>rmmod snd_timer $#>rmmod snd $#>rmmod soundcore $#>rmmod snd_page_alloc
$#>modprobe snd-hda-intel
$#>alsamixer
The new driver worked better and with alsamixer I got many more channels than with the original 1.0.13-0. The problem came when I rebooted - the card failed to work. I ran alsaconf and that seemed to work, but the Yast sound configuration tool fails to configure the card properly.
Should I keep both the alsa-1.0.13-0.pm.0 rpm when installing the alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2.rpm that I created? I tried removing the alsa-1.0.13-0.pm.0 rpm, but then alsamixer does not exist. Which - if any - of the old (1.0.13-0) packages should I keep and which of the new tar.bz2 (1.0.14rc2) should I install? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gus Degreef. I also have an HP laptop (not the same model) and the Microphone no longer works. I have compiled and installed the latest ALSA offerings and it did help the speakers but the Microphone is still dead. I am hopeful that the ALSA folks are working on this and that it will be fixed by 10.3 time frame. However, to get functionality again with Skype etc. I purchased a USB headset and that works. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org