Re: Sound on Packard Bell V7900 (ALC260): where from here?

[Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>]

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I can start looking at this next week, if you are available.  No need
for ssh yet.  Could you download
http://members.dsl-only.net/~tdavis/alsa-info.sh and email me directly
the output as an attachment?  Also include IM information and a possible
time schedule to contact you.

Tobin

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:00 +0000, Pongi wrote:

> Andrea Gozzi <andrea.gozzi <at> linuxrevolution.eu> writes:
> 
> > 
> > To the attention of ALSA Devel mailing list users.
> > --------
> > 
> > It's now been several months since I bought my Packard Bell V7900 laptop
> > but I was never able to hear any sound coming from its speakers.
> > I tried every ALSA release from 1.12 to the latest 1.14rc1 but without
> > any success.
> > I tried loading the kernel modules with every possible option
> > (hp,acer,fujitsu,..) but nothing from happened.The only useful result
> > was to get sound coming from a jack marked "Line In" when snd-hda-intel
> > is configured with 'model=test'.
> > 
> > Jonathan Woithe has been very helpful, I tried to explain to him as best
> > as I could all the ALSA configurations tested and what I got from them.
> > When I last heard from him he told me he believed that Packard Bell
> > implemented some sort of amplifier between the Realtek chipset and the
> > speakers.
> > 
> > It so seems to be a problem regarding only this particular model of
> > laptop from PB.
> > Since I don't have any experience dealing with this kind of situations
> > who should I ask for support?
> > Should I contact Packard Bell directly asking them for more information
> > and/or some datasheets?Should I ask Realtek?
> > Also, should I expect any help from them?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Andrea
> > 
> 
> I'm still looking for a solution of this problem, and I just spotted this lonely
> request for help. I sadly noticed that no one has replied neither saying "you
> should not have buyed such bulky laptop" or "oh, sweetie, let's see what can be
> done for you". I'm still without sound, and still can't see where to look for
> solutions.
> 
> Driver developers, I can't send my laptop in to you to explore the weirdness of
> the snd-hda-intel/packardbell, but I can send you an invite to join a ssh
> session pointing directly to my linuxbox. Is it feasible? In april, when I will
> be finally graduated, and when I will reinstall Ubuntu (format for Feisty!)
> there will be a peep hole in my firewall to let some serious developer
> investigate my laptop.
> 
> Beware, hacker out there, my box will be perfectly clean, with no cc numbers,
> passwords or something and after the session I'll format the hd again, to ensure
> there's no harming code left on my laptux.
> 
> .png
> 
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> 
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