Bug#464191: Sound broken with linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
severity 464191 wishlist
retitle 464191 Reintroduce Maestro firmware
tags 464191 wontfix
thanks
> >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.
> Thank you Gabor. I got my sounds back on this prescription!
>
> I hope it will be fixed on next kernels release though.
We cannot distribute the firmware unfortunately. However, there are
instructions how to fix this locally: http://wiki.debian.org/snd-maestro3
Cheers,
Moritz
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