This is weird. On Wednesday 20 January 2010 04:40:04 Xi Shen wrote:
> did you compile your sound drivers into the kernel, or as a module. i > had a similar issue before on my thinkpad t61. i compiled all the > intel-hd related sound drivers into the kernel, but the sound system > does not work. but after i compile them as modules, the sound works > very well. They're all modules: $ lsmod | grep snd snd_seq_oss 23781 0 snd_seq_midi_event 4540 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 42949 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 4405 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 30573 0 snd_mixer_oss 12406 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_hda_codec_via 24586 0 snd_hda_intel 17746 5 snd_hda_codec 44688 2 snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel snd_pcm 55177 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 15366 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 43222 17 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 4447 1 snd snd_page_alloc 5937 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm The sound works fine except that KDE can't detect the hardware; it wants to forget about the Intel HDA device permanently. (I don't let it.) But by the time I come to log off, it's working happily with sound - at any rate, I get the log-off tune. Curiouser and curiouser. -- Rgds Peter.
