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CRN110

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Registered: 2020-02-02

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alsa-base.conf not found?

Needed to make some changes to alsa-base.conf for some hardware troubleshooting and saw that alsa-base.conf was not there before I created it. Does alsa even use it now? Is there a way to make it appear if alsa does use it, with the contents it should have? If not, where can I make edits/append lines? I need to change something for my combo jack.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: alsa-base.conf not found?

if you are talking about /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf that you were suggested you'd create.

The name doesn't matter it just has to end in .conf, it's a pseudo convention that people name the conf that mucks with sound related modules like that.

ALSA doesn't do anything with that. That's a modprobe configuration file to define module options for the kernel module, in this case snd_hda_intel. If you want to check whether parameters specified there did indeed get applied you can scourge your dmesg or use

systool -vm snd_hda_intel #Needs sysfstools

Further reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … le_options

Last edited by V1del (2020-02-06 14:19:18)

CRN110

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Registered: 2020-02-02

Posts: 18

Re: alsa-base.conf not found?

Ah alright, thanks a lot!