[Solved] ALSA issue - hda_intel with latest drivers
 

Hello, I have a nvidia chipset using the ALC883 codec. Box is a gentoo box and has been working fine for a little over a year. Sometime in the last 3 months my sound quit. (I have been gone for a while) Everything loads and looks good (using external alsa sources, not kernel) but I still get the following error with dmesg:
Output from the alsa info script is on line at the following:

http://pastebin.ca/871167

I have also tried all options in the /etc/modules.d/alsa file for snd_hda_intel model=... Any ideas would be great. I am not sure what would have changed that it doesn't work after a year.

Thanks for the help!
PhilD

Was your gentoo box compiling the whole time you were gone ? Ok, gentoo humor aside, are the sound modules loaded at boot do you know ?

David

haha, we're funny aren't we! :) No, it wasn't... well, I don't think it was. Anyway, all modules load and no errors outside of the one dmesg above. Alsaconf runs just fine as well. I have noticed that the options I put in the /etc/modules.d/alsa file never get used. Even if I do an update-modules first.

I can modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig and it shows up with the alsa-info.sh script. Put it in the options and restart alsasound and nothing. Go figure.

I am about to consider myself blessed that it actually worked for a year, give up, and through in a different sound card. I don't use the fancy 5.1 sound anyway and this is getting old. I love linux and will never use anything else, but I am sure I have a few extra gray hairs because of it.

PhilD

Well, a quick update. I did finally get it to work again with the 6stack-dig model, a lot of rebooting, and probably some luck to go along with it. I am not sure why it quit working in the first place, but hopefully now that the module is called out it will stay working.

Thanks!