On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:19:47AM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote: > >Just a note for anyone doing a page on Acer laptops. I had put in my > >own page, and notice that someone had put in theirs as well, that though > >the module loads, sound doesn't work. It turns out that one can get sound > >working by downloading the latest > >alsa drivers. I've added a note to my page on the 4720z. The issue > >seems to be that CentOS uses an older version of alsa. > Are you sure the provided alsa/snd-hda-intel module doesn't work with your > hardware ? Yes, I am quite sure. I am aware of the trick of specifying the model in modprobe.conf (or modprobe.d/alsa-base) but it didn't work in this case. The nice thing is that with these newer drivers, that model=acer line is not required for sound to work. > Maybe adding a link/note on the wiki about all the parameters that this module > accepts is worth writing : all the paramaters are in the file > /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt > (package kernel-doc) I do have a link to my page, where I mention the model=acer trick. I think that's a great idea to add mention of possible parameters, but should probably be in a separate page about sound. (I don't feel capable of writing such a page--my sound needs are pretty basic, and I'm no expert on it. Something with a link, as well as telling the reader how to apply these parameters, for example, in /etc/modprobe.conf, would certainly be useful, however.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: You're just a souless bloodsucking demon. They're LAWYERS