Re: Alsa 1.0.13 (and others) does not work on ALC880

[Andrew Callan <acallan.alsa@ugnet.org>]

I have been without sound using Fedora Core ever since the 2.6.16 or
2.6.17 kernel update (2.6.16 crashed during initialization, so I could not
tell whether sound worked or not).  It had worked well through the 2.6.15
Fedora kernels.  I finally sat down tonight to work the problem as hard as
I could and happened upon Eric and Tobin's timely exchange.

First, simply adding probe_mask=1 to the snd-hda-intel options worked for
me as well; I did not end up having to specify a specific model.

Second, I too was seeing a LONG hang when trying to do:
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
but now with the probe_mask=1, I do not see this.

If it helps, the alsa-info.sh output for my system is at
http://pastebin.ca/496293
If it makes any difference, I'm not sure which model I had specified on
the modprobe line at the time I captured this output.

One thing I do notice is that after adding probe_mask=1, aplay -l does not
show the Si3054 Modem which shows up in the alsa-info output.

Thanks for the help you gave in the thread with Eric.

Andrew