On 17/01/14 10:47, Martin wrote:
You'll probably find that some features of your sound card are not available with model=generic. During the Time of Squeeze, the ALC887 was quite new, and the drivers (don't know whether its snd-hda-intel or snd_hda_codec_realtek) probably can't / won't recognise this device.On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:42:58PM +0000, Klaus wrote:On 14/01/14 11:58, Martin wrote:Realtek ALC887Does any of this help: <http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=86536> ?This was helpful Klaus. After appending a linewith command: # echo "options snd-hda-intel model=generic" >> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and rebooting sound is working now. Many thanks Martin
Depending on whether you need more than just "sound is working", it might be worth trying a kernel from Squeeze-Backports (22MB)
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-paeIf your DVD set contains the package 'linux-doc' or something like 'linux-doc-2.6', there is some fine documentation in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt.gz
-- Klaus