Re: Problem getting ALSA working on Dell Inspiron 4150

[Matthew Guenther <guentherm@asme.org>]

Joe Emenaker wrote:

> Here are the quick facts:
>
>  1 - ALSA used to work. I don't know when it stopped working... if it 
> was after a kernel upgrade or an upgrade in some of the alsa-tools or 
> what. But now, I get no sound. I don't get any *errors*... I just don't 
> get any sound.
>
>  2 - Typical problem in this case is that the volumes are all muted. 
> However, in this case, if I run "alsamixer", I get "function 
> snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device".
>
>  3 - /proc/alsa/cards contains "--- no soundcards ---".
>
>  4 - OSS *does* work. (No, I don't want to use it because I can't get 
> KDE and XMMS to use it at the same time)
>
>  5 - 'lsmod' shows that the intel8x0 *is* loaded... as well as 
> soundcore, and a lot of other things that lsmod claims intel8x0 uses.
>
> Any ideas?

This sounds pretty close to what happened to me with my Inspiron 8200 
after a kernel upgrade, I posted a question here and got a response from 
Bruno Muller to try booting with "pci=noacpi" passed to the kernel. 
Everything works hunky-dory now, you might want to give it a shot.  He 
also pointed out this website:

http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~amanous/Inspiron-Linux/#kernel

HTH,

MBG

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Matthew Guenther
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Researcher
University of Victoria
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