sound problem asus f6v ATI RV620 Audio device

[Karl F. Larsen]

Bram Kuijper wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently purchased a new laptop, an Asus F6v, on which I installed 
> Ubuntu 8.10. Everything works perfectly except for sound, which does 
> work perfectly under vista on the same machine. Does anybody know how 
> to get the soundcard on this type of laptop working?
>
> Given a recent posting on ubuntuforums, 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1021477.html, I guess this 
> soundcard is too new for ubuntu, so I guess I can better stick to 
> vista for the time being?
>
> ps: I have everything at my alsamixer unmuted, so that cannot cause 
> the problem. Here are the specs of my soundcard. Any help is greatly 
> appreciated.
>
>   aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 Digital [ALC662 Digital]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> lspci -v (I display only the soundcard details here)
> 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon 
> HD 34xx Series]
> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx 
> Series]
> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> 	Memory at fdeec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> 	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>
>   
    Sound will not work for sure until you get all the Updates. This is 
a well known problem with 8.10 and it was bad. But the new kernel 
appears to have fixed the problem.

Karl


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