Re: Acer Aspire 8920g / snd-hda-intel / ALC889

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:25:42 +0100,
Andy Green wrote:
> 
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
> >> and dmesg says that model=acer was selected reasonably enough.
> > 
> > First of all, do you need to pass model=acer at all?
> 
> No, the auto thing detects it as acer and reports in dmesg that it has 
> selected acer.  Currently I forced it anyway in /etc/modprobe.conf to 
> acer as part of running around trying everything I could imagine.

I guess the correct model is rather acer-aspire.  Try it instead.

> >> 1) It is confused if it has ALC889 or ALC883 in there
> >>
> >> $ grep ALC /proc/asound/* -R
> >> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0:Codec: Realtek ALC889    <==== 889
> >> /proc/asound/card0/pcm2c/sub0/info:id: ALC883 Analog  <=== 883...
> > 
> > This doesn't matter.  ALC889 is compatible with ALC883, and the driver
> > uses the same string inside.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > alsa-info.sh (found in www.alsa-project.org debug page) would give
> > more detailed debug information.  Please show that output.
> 
> It is here:
> 
> http://pastebin.ca/992253

The setting looks OK otherwise.
BTW, it'd be better to show the contents in the post at the next
time.


thanks,

Takashi