On 26.07.2010 20:00, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:33:37 +0200,
> Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>
>> On 26.07.2010 19:24, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> At Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:57:22 +0200,
>>> Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 26.07.2010 09:29, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>>> At Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:56:50 +0200,
>>>>> Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25.07.2010 17:27, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>>>>> At Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:59:00 +1000,
>>>>>>> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [Just cc'ing the sound tree contact]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:24:36 +0200 Piotr Hosowicz<piotr@hosowicz.com>     wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I just downloaded today's next and built it, then booted. Sound is not
>>>>>>>>> working, my card is:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio
>>>>>>>>> Controller
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am now booted with latest git kernel and cannot provide more info
>>>>>>>>> here, I rebooted with that kernel because I am going to sleep and I like
>>>>>>>>> to listen to music by night. If more details is necessary I could boot
>>>>>>>>> that next tommorow, but tell me what you need.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Make sure that your mixer setup is correct with a new kernel.
>>>>>>> Usually alsactl restores the right mixer values, though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At best, run alsa-info.sh (with --no-upload option) on both kernels to
>>>>>>> compare.  Also you can try to pull only sound git tree instead of
>>>>>>> linux-kernel to identify whether it's a problem in the sound tree or
>>>>>>> somewhere else.  Anyway, see Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt for
>>>>>>> some details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not see such script, alsa-info.sh.
>>>>>
>>>>> The location of the script is found in the document mentioned above.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I dont know how to pull only the
>>>>>> sound tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> The sound git tree URL is found in the document mentioned above.
>>>>> Just do git-pull onto your cloned Linus tree.
>>>>
>>>> I don't knmow how to pull _onto_ existing files. git says that it is not
>>>> a repo and refuses to download files, I thought that first I have to
>>>> make git clone, but I was happy that it's not like that.
>>>
>>> First clone, then pull onto it,
>>>
>>>     % git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>>     % cd linux-2.6
>>>     % git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
>>
>> This is what I tried but the second git invocation failed saying that
>> thre is no repo info in that directory.
>
> You need to pass the branch.  In this case, pass for-next

I passed topic/hda and rebuilt the kernel and now everything is working.

>   % git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git for-next
>
>>> Anyway, if your codec is either IDT or STAC codec, try the latest sound
>>> git or wait for tomorrow's linux-next tree.  A fix regarding the volume
>>> was committed today.
>>
>> I bet it is not a problem with volume, because it (fresh from linus
>> repo) prints error messages when loading alsa sound during system start.
>> Something that there is no sound device, as far as I remember.
>
> With which kernel did it work at all...?

Please see attached output from working sound from alsa-info.sh. The 
version is in the filename.

How shall I know tommorrow when there is a new kernel version that I 
need to do the git magic again?

Regards and thanks,

Piotr Hosowicz

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