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Hmm.. I agree these are becoming bad habits, but what if all the good habits fail? That is actually a very common case, I think. I once couldn't make sound wor

by miloshh 18y ago

Hmm.. I agree these are becoming bad habits, but what if all the good habits fail? That is actually a very common case, I think. I once couldn't make sound work on a laptop, so I tried all the obvious tricks - check if the mixer isn't accidentally set to zero etc. But when all failed, I decided to download the latest nightly build of ALSA, recompile it, and guess what - it solved the problem. I still don't know what it was... I have similar stories with GPU support and power management, and I think I'm not alone. But we're getting into too much detail...

coryrc 18y ago
Fair enough. I find it's easier to pretend the driver doesn't exist unless it's packaged, and do whatever I would otherwise do. If you were using debian or ubuntu, they removed the firmware from ALSA for legal reasons. Ugh, I know; it would be nice if they warned someone. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/26294 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/26294 or http://forum.soft32.com/linux2/Bug-434592-alsa-firmware-loaders-Missing-firmware-ins-ftopict104021.html http://forum.soft32.com/linux2/Bug-434592-alsa-firmware-load... However, I wouldn't expect anyone else to figure out which package to add either. But for you and I, this is at least a step up from recompiling.