On New Year’s Eve a loose heatsink fried my old Asus motherboard northbridge, so I replaced the entire system with a nice and inexpensive Dell Inspiron 530. It’s a G33/ICH9-based system, which runs almost out-of-the box with Linux 2.6.23, except for the ethernet controller (you’ll need an upgraded e1000 driver from Intel) and HDA sound (multichannel and headphone detection not working). Use the following ALSA patch to fix both sound problems:
- Hg patch for alsa-kernel: fixes 5.1 sound and headphone detection in the Dell Inspiron 530
- Patch for Linux 2.6.23.12: same patch as above, backported to Linux 2.6.23.12
It adds the ALC888 6stack-dell mode for the Inspiron 530 and hopefully for other Dell systems based on the ALC888. The patch has already been submited upstream and should show up in the next kernel version. The patch has also been added to the current Mandriva Cooker kernel.
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January 16th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
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January 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Can you explain me, how to fix the kernel in Ubuntu 7.10. I’ll need the headphone for support. Thanks
January 17th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The easiest way is to get the latest Alsa-HG from http://alsa-project.org, it already has the Dell patch included. Or you can apply a patch to your kernel source and rebuild (that would require some extra work to configure and deploy correctly).
January 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Thanks’, i’ll try the HG.