From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Very faint sound on Dell Latitude E6500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:31:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200901271651.56181.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DF924434 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:31:03 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <200901271651.56181.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:56 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I've received a brand new Dell Latitude E6500 and found out that the sound > card wasn't exactly well supported by ALSA. > > Sound is barely audible (so faint that I'm not even sure if the proper sound > is output or if I just get garbage), with some loud noise here and there that > seem to correspond to the saturated audio data parts. > > The sound card is an HDA-Intel with an IDT 92HD71B7X codec. Hardware > information can be found at > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=30cac30e5b1ddd9c842481a830c250cc3e593b0d. A Please run with --no-upload and included the result in the post. Anyway, this problem might be related with the volume-knob. Install hda-verb and try the following hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x28 SET_VOLUME_KNOB 0xff or hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x28 SET_VOLUME_KNOB 0 Takashi