On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:36:37AM -0400, fred smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:18:30PM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> > > Hi everyone!
> > > 
> > > F11 live cd, booting from USB on a eeepc 901 (20 gig model).
> > > 
> > > boots fine, pretty much everything works fine.
> > > 
> > > But...
> > > 1) sound volume is so low as to be nearly inaudible. I've cranked up every
> > > mixer/volume control I can find, including alsamixer. I know that in F10, 
> > > doing
> > > that worked--every new kernel on f10 would reset alsamixer to 50%, and I'd
> > > have to go reset it. But F11 seems to be different. Clues pls?
> > 
> > Unfortunately this will not work with the Live CD, but if you installed the 
> > Live CD to your hard drive I am sure it will work. At least it did for me 
> > on my 1000HE.
> > 
> > You might want to try setting the options for the snd-hda-intel module.
> > 
> > For my EEE-1000HE I created the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and put 
> > the following lines:
> > 
> > options snd-hda-intel model=quanta
> > 
> > This broke my onboard microphones, but it made the sound much better.
> > 
> > What you can try is the following:
> > 
> > cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
> > 
> > Then look on this site 
> > http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt 
> > for your model.
> > 
> > For example, on my current Laptop the above command gives me
> > 
> > Codec: Realtek ALC268
> > 
> > So on the site I scroll down to the ALC267/268 section and I see the 
> > following:
> > 
> > 66  ALC267/268
> > 67  ==========
> > 68    quanta-il1    Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
> > 69    3stack        3-stack model
> > 70    toshiba       Toshiba A205
> > 71    acer          Acer laptops
> > 72    acer-dmic     Acer laptops with digital-mic
> > 73    acer-aspire   Acer Aspire One
> > 74    dell          Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
> > 75    zepto         Zepto laptops
> > 76    test          for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
> > 77                  adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
> > 78                  $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
> > 79    auto          auto-config reading BIOS (default)
> > 
> > Since my laptop is a Toshiba, I use the toshiba model option so the line in 
> > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf looks like:
> > 
> > options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
> > 
> > I think for you the model will be ALC269 so you can try either of the 
> > following (replace "toshiba" from the above line with one of the options 
> > below):
> > 
> > basic
> > quanta
> > eeepc-p703
> > eeepc-p901
> > fujitsu

right, the 901 reports it's a ALC269. So I tried adding the entry you suggested
to modprobe.conf using eeepc-0901 and it didn't change the sound after a
reboot. So I got brave and tried "basic", rebooted, and voila! Sound! :) :)
Haven't yet tried headphones, but I will shortly.

> > 
> > When I was doing my eee 1000HE the quanta model would give me much louder 
> > sound and the headphone sensing would still work.
> > 
> > Just remember that you might want to reboot when making changes, I never 
> > had much success with unloading the module and then modprobing it with the 
> > proper option.
> > 
> > Trial and error is your friend!
> > 
> > Let me know how it goes. I wrote a blog entry about it here: 
> > http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/05/eee-pc-1000he-tips.html 
> 
> Tait:
> 
> Thanks for all the info. I'll letyou know once I've had a chance to mess
> with it.
> 

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