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I have a MSI 720 series laptop,
debian Lenny installed with kernel 2.6.28-1-686.I have the nvidia driver installed (the "debian way") and wireless working ,thanks to the newer kernel.There are 5 speakers on this thing,4 plus a subwoofer underneath,it has HD sound and hdmi out.I can only get sound out of the woofer-none of the other speakers are working! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! here is the output of lspi;
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
01:04.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02)
01:04.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 002a (rev 01)
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS (rev a1)
Thanks!
One other thing,there is a webcam and microphone in the lid !
Last edited by glidermike; 03-12-2009 at 08:59 PM.
I don't have a debian box around but can you post;
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Make sure you run alsamixer and unmute as needed
Here is an example go to Code Listing 3.6: Starting alsamixer http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
Last edited by comprookie2000; 03-13-2009 at 02:05 PM.
ALC883/888
3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O
6stack-dig 6-jack digital with SPDIF I/O
3stack-6ch 3-jack 6-channel
3stack-6ch-dig 3-jack 6-channel with SPDIF I/O
6stack-dig-demo 6-jack digital for Intel demo board
acer Acer laptops (Travelmate 3012WTMi, Aspire 5600, etc)
acer-aspire Acer Aspire 9810
medion Medion Laptops
medion-md2 Medion MD2
targa-dig Targa/MSI
targa-2ch-dig Targs/MSI with 2-channel
laptop-eapd 3-jack with SPDIF I/O and EAPD (Clevo M540JE, M550JE)
lenovo-101e Lenovo 101E
lenovo-nb0763 Lenovo NB0763
lenovo-ms7195-dig Lenovo MS7195
lenovo-sky Lenovo Sky
haier-w66 Haier W66
3stack-hp HP machines with 3stack (Lucknow, Samba boards)
6stack-dell Dell machines with 6stack (Inspiron 530)
mitac Mitac 8252D
clevo-m720 Clevo M720 laptop series
fujitsu-pi2515 Fujitsu AMILO Pi2515
3stack-6ch-intel Intel DG33* boards
auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)
You *should* be able to get it to work but may take some fooling around with the options and alsamixer. Also not sure how to restart alsa on Debian, but you will need to each time you try someting new. Good Luck and keep me posted.
ok I finally got it !! Thanks to your advice I ran alsaconf then added lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and also (for good luck) in /etc/modprobe.d/sound.
The lines I added were:
options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1
options snd hda-intel model=6stack-dig
Did a reboot and sound works in all 5 speakers --thank you so much for your help!
Super, WOW i don't believe it, you will need to post a how to. If you put one together send it to me if you need a place to put it. Not many people have got it to work, what luck. "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes."
If you have some time you could help out alsa, they like it when you run this script; http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-...s/alsa-info.sh
and post your success on their Bug Tracker; http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...rting_problems
Last edited by comprookie2000; 03-14-2009 at 01:41 PM.
Well I gave the laptop to my daughter this last weekend and she was very happy!
The laptop itself is an MSI EX723 17" megabook,specs are:
Intel core2 duo T5800, 2GB DDR2 800 Memory,320 GB SATA HD,Wireless sB/G/N,Bluetooth V2.0 DVD multi drive,HD audio 5 speakers Dolby sound,HDMI out SPDIF out, external SATA port,card reader, Firewire,built in webcam and mic.It came formatted with freedos!
MSI provide drivers for XP as well as Vista (but not linux!) So I split the drive in half and ran a dual boot with XP and debian.
The first problem was after the debian install,no sound, no wireless,web cam works out of the box,bluetooth works(after installing gnome-bluetooth)-even the touch-sensitive buttons on the front panel work! The wireless is an Atheros chip but the default kernel in debian does not include the drivers (even after madwifi install)The audio works just in the sub-woofer in the bottom of the laptop. The Nvidia graphics card was easy to get running with the appropriate kernel headers for 2.6.26 and module-assistant.I found an ath9k driver from one of the ubuntu forums and tried it but the connection with wireless was iffy and I could not get a connection at all to a secured network.After messing around for a day or two I tried the 2.6.28-1 kernel from debian-experimental-kernel and the wireless card worked perfectly-but major problem, kbuild is not current so no kernel headers were available! Did a lot of googleing and found a pre-compiled kbuild for the 28 kernel so after install I could get the kernel headers and run module-assistant for the nvidia drivers,so now I had 2 out of 3 fixed! I upgraded alsa and alsa-base from sid and then ran alsaconf this changed the alsa-base file in /etc/modprobe.d (I don't have the file here as it's in my daughters laptop but it was considerably smaller than the one I originally posted) then I added two lines to the file as mentioned in some of the other forums:
options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1
options snd hda-intel model=6stack-dig
And the sound problem was fixed!
I will probably have to do some more tweaking when my daughter comes over for a visit (she lives 60 miles away) but debian performs very well on this laptop and the dealer at the store was amazed at how fast it was and the memory usage (or lack of!) compared to vista!.
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