Re: Regression in 3.0-git after commit c82693db52beced0419cecf09a3c81adfe95a544 - sound does not work

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 08/04/2011 02:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:19:17 -0500,
> Larry Finger wrote:
>>
>> On 08/04/2011 12:55 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Through a quick glance at these information, the problem
>>> looks like that both newly appearing "Headphone" and "Speaker" volumes
>>> are set to zero.  Usually alsactl invoked by udev will set appropriate
>>> values for new elements, but in your case, it didn't work by some
>>> reason.
>>>
>>> Try to adjust them.  (Note that you don't have to rebuild the kernel
>>> just for this test; pass model=auto option to snd-hda-intel module,
>>> then it'll switch to that mode.)
>>
>> By adding that option to /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf, and removing my patch, I
>> got new controls with the mixer. After fiddling with them a bit, I got working
>> sound. The issue is fixed.
>
> OK, thanks for a quick check!
>
> BTW, are you using systemd or sysvinit?  The culprit might be the
> missing call  of "alsactl init" at the startup, and it depends on the
> start-up system, of course.

I'm using sysvinit with openSUSE 11.4. The plan is to have systemd working with 
oS 12.1, but that is still a work in progress.

Larry