Here are some patches for ALSA to fix issues with 5.1 surround in some machines (LG LW20 laptop, HP Nettle, HP Lucknow), headphone detection (HP Spartan laptop), modem detection (Clevo m540 laptop, sold under different names such as Positivo V44 in Brazil) and USB MIDI quirk (Roland Juno-G synth). All those were sent to Takashi for inclusion in 2.6.23, but if you’re stuck with an older kernel, can’t upgrade your ALSA and have experienced problems with any of the pieces of hardware listed above, you can try one or more of the following patches:

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    [...] A bunch of ALSA patches 10 07 [...]

  2. Hell Labs » ALSA: small fixes for LG LW20 says:

    [...] tried it earlier, I would have noticed that these features didn’t work. So to complement the patch to fix 5.1 output I published a few days ago, here’s a couple of small fixes for the rest of the aforementioned [...]

  3. Hell Labs » More ALSA HDA patches says:

    [...] more ALSA patches for HP systems including the Nettle and Lucknow, see my previous ALSA HDA patches. 5.1 sound output in Realtek-based HDA systems is quite easy to fix, so feel free to contact me if [...]

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