From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Doty Subject: Re: Creative ca0132 on Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 motherboard: no sound Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:13:14 -0800 Message-ID: <56D8C50A.2030904@ponzo.net> References: <56D25FBB.2020201@ponzo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from c.ponzo.net (c.ponzo.net [69.12.221.20]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD002657B4 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 00:13:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 03/03/2016 01:41 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > I guess this is a very long-standing known issue with CA0132 codec > support. The codec driver, or more exactly, the given firmware blob, > is very specific to some models (Chromebook Pixel, the old Creative > CA0132 boards and some old Alienware machines), and the recent > Creative models don't work with it well. > > There have been some struggles, but no good solution found yet. > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111021 > > > Takashi Thank you for the reply! As a first step, I immediately applied the patches attached to the bug report above, which, alas, does not seem to have solved the problem. I will post that, as well as further reports, under the bug report. -Scott