On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:05:44 +0100 Peter Duffy peter@mhoram.demon.co.uk wrote:
But at the moment I'm stuck on the audio card. The system seems to detect it happily enough as Intel HDA, with a Realtek ALC269 chip, but there's no sound. I'm sure I've hit a similar problem in the past with the snd-hda-intel driver - I think it's a matter of figuring out the right value for the "model=..." parameer. Has anyone else got this to work?
That "model=" issue took me about three days to figure out when I set up my wife's new laptop (not an eee-pc) last Christmas. There is a fairly comprehensive list of valid model= entries somewhere on the Internet that I found at that time, and by going through them one at a time I finally found one that worked.
Not that it matters, but "model=toshiba" is the one that eventually worked. Which is interesting because it's not a toshiba laptop.
The lesson here is, don't eliminate any entries as not relevant because your machine isn't that model.