Medion Laptop + alc880

Medion Laptop + alc880

[fab]

Hi!
I already said the intel-hda driver is badly working with latest (cvs)
alsa, I had no speaker out and most outputs were mangled . realtek
released a new driver:

ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/hda/alc880d/linux_r32.zip

Not perfect, but makes the internal speaker working and most outputs are
working as expected, I havn't tried it much but it's by far the best
working driver for this card.

Hope this helps.

Fabien Devaux.


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Re: Medion Laptop + alc880

[Thierry Vignaud]

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fab <fab@gnux.info> writes:

> I already said the intel-hda driver is badly working with latest
> (cvs) alsa, I had no speaker out and most outputs were mangled
> . realtek released a new driver:
> 
> ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/hda/alc880d/linux_r32.zip
> 
> Not perfect, but makes the internal speaker working and most outputs
> are working as expected, I havn't tried it much but it's by far the
> best working driver for this card.

this is a patched alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a (just checked against the
official tarball):

here's the diff against the official tarball (diff -ru, not -ruN):

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Re: Medion Laptop + alc880

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:41:05 +0200,
Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> 
> fab <fab@gnux.info> writes:
> 
> > I already said the intel-hda driver is badly working with latest
> > (cvs) alsa, I had no speaker out and most outputs were mangled
> > . realtek released a new driver:
> > 
> > ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/hda/alc880d/linux_r32.zip
> > 
> > Not perfect, but makes the internal speaker working and most outputs
> > are working as expected, I havn't tried it much but it's by far the
> > best working driver for this card.
> 
> this is a patched alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a (just checked against the
> official tarball):

Yes, I merged it and rewrote many codes on CVS.  Give it a try.


Takashi


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Re: Medion Laptop + alc880

[fab]

On 10/06/05 21:06 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:41:05 +0200,
> Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > 
> > fab <fab@gnux.info> writes:
> > 
> > > I already said the intel-hda driver is badly working with latest
> > > (cvs) alsa, I had no speaker out and most outputs were mangled
> > > . realtek released a new driver:
> > > 
> > > ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/hda/alc880d/linux_r32.zip
> > > 
> > > Not perfect, but makes the internal speaker working and most outputs
> > > are working as expected, I havn't tried it much but it's by far the
> > > best working driver for this card.
> > 
> > this is a patched alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a (just checked against the
> > official tarball):
> 
> Yes, I merged it and rewrote many codes on CVS.  Give it a try.

Ok, I checked out alsa today and it looked weired, the card= was
uneffective and I always got something looking like card=test. The
internal speakers were always off too...
Are all the changes from realtek applied ?
My computer was out for repairing and I got it 3 days ago, I havn't read
the ML for long, am I missing some insmod parameters ?

Regards.
Fabien Devaux.


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Re: Medion Laptop + alc880

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:22:15 +0200,
fab wrote:
> 
> On 10/06/05 21:06 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:41:05 +0200,
> > Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > > 
> > > fab <fab@gnux.info> writes:
> > > 
> > > > I already said the intel-hda driver is badly working with latest
> > > > (cvs) alsa, I had no speaker out and most outputs were mangled
> > > > . realtek released a new driver:
> > > > 
> > > > ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/hda/alc880d/linux_r32.zip
> > > > 
> > > > Not perfect, but makes the internal speaker working and most outputs
> > > > are working as expected, I havn't tried it much but it's by far the
> > > > best working driver for this card.
> > > 
> > > this is a patched alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a (just checked against the
> > > official tarball):
> > 
> > Yes, I merged it and rewrote many codes on CVS.  Give it a try.
> 
> Ok, I checked out alsa today and it looked weired, the card= was
> uneffective and I always got something looking like card=test. The
> internal speakers were always off too...

FYI, I updated now again the hda-codec code quite much...

> Are all the changes from realtek applied ?

Yes, they should be all there.

> My computer was out for repairing and I got it 3 days ago, I havn't read
> the ML for long, am I missing some insmod parameters ?

position_fix=1 might be your friend on some devices.
See ALSA-Configuration.txt.


Takashi


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