Ubuntu 8.10 on MD 96640 and the soundproblem
Monday, 25. May 2009, 10:38:18
When the kernel on the notebook of my father got changed from 2.6.24* to 2.6.27* sound suddenly stopped working and i kept reading the following in dmesg:
And i kept searching for a solution to get this running.
I made various changes to several configfiles, installed OSS, reinstalled ALSA, recompiled ALSA, until i found out yesterday, what driver i really needed.
Actually i just needed a driver for the soundcard which is actually a Realtek ALC888.
I downloaded it there: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false unpacked it, read the Readme and after compiling and installing and a quick reboot sound is finally there again.
[28562.488000] HDA Intel: probe of 0000:00:1b.0 failed with error -16
lspci|grep -i audiorevealed the following:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
And i kept searching for a solution to get this running.
I made various changes to several configfiles, installed OSS, reinstalled ALSA, recompiled ALSA, until i found out yesterday, what driver i really needed.
Actually i just needed a driver for the soundcard which is actually a Realtek ALC888.
I downloaded it there: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false unpacked it, read the Readme and after compiling and installing and a quick reboot sound is finally there again.
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