Dell XPS M1710 and Sound

Hi guys,

I'm having a heck of a time getting sound to work on my Dell
XPS M1710.

A while back, when I was first setting the laptop of with
Gentoo, C. Lee
Davis sent me a link on how he configured his system with
Alsa.  Well, I
followed that both with Alsa compiled into the kernel and
using
alsa-driver.  I've googled this and didn't come up with
anything that
was similar to my problem.  dmesg shows no errors.  Sound is
not muted.

On my *desktop* system, Alsa works fine - different sound
chipset.  The
*laptop* soundcard is an hda-intel.

On my *desktop*, KMix shows the following items for output:

Master
Master Mono
Headphone
3D-Control-Center
3D-Control-Depth
PCM
PC Speaker


On the *laptop*, Kmix shows only the following items for
output:
Master
PCM
Capture Mux

On the laptop, Kmix shows only Mic as Input

If anyone can lead me by the nose, here, I would certainly
appreciate it.

Regards,

Colleen



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On Sunday 17 June 2007 18:36, Colleen Beamer wrote:

> I'm having a heck of a time getting sound to work on my
Dell XPS M1710.
>
> A while back, when I was first setting the laptop of
with Gentoo, C. Lee
> Davis sent me a link on how he configured his system
with Alsa.  Well, I
> followed that both with Alsa compiled into the kernel
and using
> alsa-driver.  I've googled this and didn't come up with
anything that
> was similar to my problem.  dmesg shows no errors. 
Sound is not muted.
>
> On my *desktop* system, Alsa works fine - different
sound chipset.  The
> *laptop* soundcard is an hda-intel.
[snip]
> On the *laptop*, Kmix shows only the following items
for output:
> Master
> PCM
> Capture Mux

I don't have this card so I am not sure what it should show.
 Assuming that 
you have compiled CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL in your kernel or as
a module and 
perhaps CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC, then what does this show?

$ alsamixer -V all
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on Sunday 06/17/2007 Colleen Beamer(colleen.beamergmail.com) wrote
 > Hi guys,
 > 
 > I'm having a heck of a time getting sound to work on
my Dell XPS M1710.
 > 
 > A while back, when I was first setting the laptop of
with Gentoo, C. Lee
 > Davis sent me a link on how he configured his system
with Alsa.  Well, I
 > followed that both with Alsa compiled into the kernel
and using
 > alsa-driver.  I've googled this and didn't come up
with anything that
 > was similar to my problem.  dmesg shows no errors. 
Sound is not muted.
 > 
 > On my *desktop* system, Alsa works fine - different
sound chipset.  The
 > *laptop* soundcard is an hda-intel.
 > 
 > On my *desktop*, KMix shows the following items for
output:
 > 
 > Master
 > Master Mono
 > Headphone
 > 3D-Control-Center
 > 3D-Control-Depth
 > PCM
 > PC Speaker
 > 
 > 
 > On the *laptop*, Kmix shows only the following items
for output:
 > Master
 > PCM
 > Capture Mux
 > 
 > On the laptop, Kmix shows only Mic as Input
 > 
 > If anyone can lead me by the nose, here, I would
certainly appreciate it.

I have a Dell Latitude d820 which uses snd-hda-intel (I
think this is
the correct module name).  I have a few more controls that
that, but
what I set by hand in /etc/asound.state was something called
PlayBack
Master Switch which was false when it came iand is now true
and that
brought up sound.

Hope this helps.

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Colleen Beamer wrote:
> The *laptop* soundcard is an hda-intel.

Ah, welcome to the madness that is called hda-intel.  There
are 
several versions of that thing, and each version comes in
several 
different models.  My dad's laptop has an ALC260, but
whatever 
'model=' modprobe option I tried, it stayed silent.

So first find out with 'aplay -l' what codec version you
have.
Then see https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?i
d=2189 
and https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?i
d=2725 for 
more info.  Read first the comments of pshou, he's the
expert.

When you get it working, I'd be interested to know how you
got 
there.

Benno
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