Re: snd-hda-intel Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5 support in lenny

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Kelly Clowers wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:51, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> can someone help me to get sound in lenny with the intel (Codec: IDT
>> 92HD73E1X5) snd card
>>
>> I read in the bugreports that alsa 1.0.19 should support it and installed
>> from source but still no sound. I'm not sure it was really  the 19
>> version because it said it was 1.0.19 but after installing in
>> cat /proc/asound/version
>> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3
> 
> This might be because you didn't upgrade all of alsa.
> 
> Part of my alsa (Sid packages) is 1.0.19, but cat /proc/asound/version
> says Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a.
> 
>> or something
>>
>> the board is DG45FC. If someone could point me to a good howto it would
>> be enough
> 
> 
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Quick_Install
> 
> When I had sound card issues, I found building alsa-drivers was enough.
> 
> Make sure you have the linux-headers* package for your kernel
> 
> Download the alsa-drivers tar.bz2 package to /usr/local/src/
> 
> # unpack
> tar -xvjf alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar.bz2
> cd alsa-driver-1.0.19/
> 
> #build
> ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-isapnp=no
> make
> 
> # become root to install
> make install
> 
> reboot (or a correct modprobe invocation might suffice)
> of course this doesn't make .debs, but it works, and is easy


thanks for the detailed instructions, I'll look at it in the evening.
I am willing to use lenny.

thanks again and regards