Bug#326536: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7: alsa does not detect on-board cmi9761a (but does on 2.4)

[Ari Epstein <ate2@cornell.edu>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7
Version: 2.6.8-16
Severity: normal


This concerns a discrepency in behavior between this kernel image and
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 with alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k7 (1.0.8+2).  With
the 2.4 kernel and modules, onboard CMedia CMI-9761A codec is correctly
detected by modprobe snd-ac97-codec; alsaconf.  Device is not detected
when booting from 2.6 kernel.  There has been some activity on ALSA
involving the AC 97 driver and the CMI9761A, but I do not have the
technical ability to see to what extent these changes are reflected in
the 2.4 and 2.6 implementations.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.81.1   tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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