Bug#658728: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64: No more sound

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

A. Costa wrote:

> Thanks, and sorry for the mis-filing.  Unfortunately I'm not up on
> kernel packaging, so could you therefore advise where to file this?

The usual way would be "reportbug linux-image-$(uname -r)".  No need
for that this time --- I've cloned the bug as bug#658728, so please
direct followups there.

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> So perhaps this bug, if it's only an Asus laptop thing, might be one
> instance of a greater problem.

Sorry for the lack of clarity.  These symptoms are indeed expected to
affect many laptops with an ALC861 codec, not just Asus laptops.  The
problem is that different machines use a different mechanism to turn
on or off sound completely.  The driver has a table that documents
this sort of thing for (1) all ASUS laptops (after the fix to
bug#657302), (2) Haier W18, (3) FSC Amilo Pi1505.

So, the next step is to work with upstream to get the pin routing
information for your laptop.  I'll send some hints on this in a
separate message.

Thanks,
Jonathan