Re: no soundcards detected on MCP51 rev a

[Gregory T Flynn <gflynn1@binghamton.edu>]

Well here is the problem with downgrading kernels, i just tried
booting the Arch LTS kernel package which is 2.6.27 and i have an EXT4
root partition, therefor that kernel can't boot.  Is there any good
way to get an ALSA build prior to 1.0.20 to compile against kernel
2.6.33?

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:19:20 -0400,
> Gregory T Flynn wrote:
>>
>> after 9.04 it doesn't work, and versions of ALSA prior to 1.0.20 won't
>> compile against the newer kernels since the source tree organization
>> has changed
>
> The other-way round: you can run the old kernel that old Ubuntu was
> based on, and compile the later alsa-driver on it.
>
>
> Takashi
>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> > At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:44:13 -0400,
>> > Gregory T Flynn wrote:
>> >>
>> >> the options in the laptop's BIOS are rather sparse and nothing about
>> >> Sound card enable/disable
>> >>
>> >> The soundcard works in Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 Live USB images
>> >
>> > Then try the version of alsa-driver of Ubuntu.  Check whether it
>> > really works.  If works, then please bisect.
>> >
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> >
>> > Takashi
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Greg Flynn
>>
>



-- 
- Greg Flynn