Re: note on Suse 10.3 build

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:35 -0700,
randall wrote:
> 
> To all:
> 
> Had to rebuild the Suse 10.3 kernel again to get back the NVidia MCP61 
> (RealTek ALC662) on board sound.  Turned on two SND parameters in the kernel 
> config file:
> 
> CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
> CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT=y
> 
> and enabled a module:
> 
> CONFIG_SND_SOC=m
> 
> The kernal is 2.6.22.18-0.2 x86_64 architecture.
> 
> The sound file under /etc/modprobe.d is
> 
> ------------------- snip ----------------------
> options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=3stack-6ch-dig position_fix=1
> 
> # CvwD.9hpqWdunz16:MCP61 High Definition Audio
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> ------------- end snippet -------------------
> 
> and the 3stack 6 channel SPIF digital setting for the model type works for the 
> NVidia MCP61 setup.
> 
> There were NO changes to the modprobe.conf file.
> 
> Not sure why the kernel has to be rebuilt to restore the onboard sound, any 
> ideas?  The 3 changes are the only ones I've made, when running menuconfig.
> 
> Motherboard is Elite Computer Systems (ECS) GF6100-M754 with NVidia 
> GeForce6100/nForce 405 running the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor.
> 
> and hwinfo --sound
> 
> 18: PCI 05.0: 0403 Audio device
>   [Created at pci.301]
>   UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_3f0
>   Unique ID: CvwD.9hpqWdunz16
>   SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0
>   SysFS BusID: 0000:00:05.0
>   Hardware Class: sound
>   Model: "Elitegroup MCP61 High Definition Audio"
>   Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
>   Device: pci 0x03f0 "MCP61 High Definition Audio"
>   SubVendor: pci 0x1019 "Elitegroup Computer Systems"
>   SubDevice: pci 0x2151
>   Revision: 0xa2
>   Driver: "HDA Intel"
>   Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
>   Memory Range: 0xfe028000-0xfe02bfff (rw,non-prefetchable)
>   IRQ: 22 (7841 events)
>   Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd000003F0sv00001019sd00002151bc04sc03i00"
>   Driver Info #0:
>     Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
>     Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
>   Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> 
> Again, any ideas as to why the kernel has to be regenerated to enable on-board 
> sound?

You did something wrong, if the changes you did are really only the
above ones.

Did you try alsa-driver-kmp package on openSUSE BS multimedia:audio
repo?


Takashi