Re: Bug#464191: Sound broken with linux-image-2.6.24-1-686

[Timo-Tuomas Koivisto <tkoivi@cs.joensuu.fi>]

Thank you Gabor. I got my sounds back on this prescription!

I hope it will be fixed on next kernels release though.

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Gabor Burjan wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:23:17PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
> > So now I've got to recompile my kernel just to have sound?
> > How nice. I haven't had to do that since about 1998. I guess this is good
> > enough reason as any to remove Debian from my laptop. Sad too, it's been
> > Debian since before Woody was released.
>
> You do not need to recompile the kernel, you need the appropriate binary
> firmware blob.  Get the firmware package
>
>  ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.16.tar.bz2
>
> and run ./configure && make && make install
>
> After this you should have the following files present:
>
>  /lib/firmware/ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw
>  /lib/firmware/ess/maestro3_assp_minisrc.fw
>
> Then, run rmmod snd_maestro3 and modprobe snd_maestro3 again.
>
> HTH,
> Gabor

-Tipi Koivisto