[Mageia-dev] Audio problem on HP Notebook

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 02/05/11 22:09 did gyre and gimble:
> 2011/5/2 Stefano Negro <stblack at gmail.com>:
>> I am using Mageia Beta 2 on my notebook.
>> The audio device is recognised and function, with a little bug.
>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
>> Controller (rev 03)
>>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company dv6-1190en
>>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 49
>>         Memory at da100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>> 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
>>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company ATI RV710/730 [dv6-1190en]
>>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
>>         Memory at da010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>> The bug is that the control in the notebook to increase or decrease the
>> volume controlled is ATI "01:00.1 Audio device", but the sound is controlled
>> by Intel "00:1b.0 Audio device".
>> Also the On/Off control is managing the wrong device.
> 
> I had the same problem with a nvidia sound chip. The solution for me:
> Right click on the kmix symbol (in KDE) and select "Main channel
> selection" (or similar in English). Then I see a small dialogue where
> I can change between "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" and "High
> Definition Audio Controller (HDMI)". Selecting "internal" solved the
> problem.

Yeah under KDE this is a bit of a problem. KMix is a bit of a pain to
get this right but I do intend to fix it eventually (probably in Randa
in June)

Col



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