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oblong

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 2

Intel-hda no sound out of speakers. Can't compile alsa cvs. 1420n Dell

Hello!
      I'm somewhat new to Archlinux. I am trying to get my intel-hda card to work. I have a Dell inspiron 1420n laptop. Sound will come out of speakers if I plug them into the front headphone jack, but will not come out of the built in speakers on the laptop. I found this forum thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34420 and they seemed to have fixed the problem, but I can't compile alsa. The drivers compiled fine, but alsa-lib will not. I get the following errors:

python.c:962: error: 'struct python_priv' has no member named 'py_mdict'
python.c:962: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyModule_GetDict'
python.c:963: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyString_FromString'
python.c:965: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyDict_SetItemString'
python.c:972: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyModule_AddObject'
python.c:972: error: expected expression before ')' token
python.c:973: error: expected expression before ')' token
python.c:984: error: 'struct python_priv' has no member named 'py_mixer'
python.c:991: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyRun_FileEx'
python.c:991: error: 'Py_file_input' undeclared (first use in this function)
python.c:995: error: 'struct python_priv' has no member named 'py_event_func'
python.c:996: error: 'struct python_priv' has no member named 'py_event_func'
make[3]: *** [python.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kevin/alsacvs/alsa-lib/modules/mixer/simple'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kevin/alsacvs/alsa-lib/modules/mixer'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kevin/alsacvs/alsa-lib/modules'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I tried finding out if I was missing a python library, but I can't seem to find out any information anywhere. Please help me I love this distro! Everything is all setup besides this pesky audio problem BTW I am in the audio group. Thanks!!

bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Intel-hda no sound out of speakers. Can't compile alsa cvs. 1420n Dell

Did you get that sound card to work properly on any other linux distribution ? hda-intel is terribly broken...

oblong

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 2

Re: Intel-hda no sound out of speakers. Can't compile alsa cvs. 1420n Dell

Yeah your right, it very much is. Well, this lappy is the one of the models Dell are selling pre-installed with Ubuntu. I ditched Ubuntu for Arch because I liked it so much on my desktop computer I replaced with this laptop. But in Ubuntu the sound did work (although poor quality). The only thing I had to configure was the video acceleration because it seems all distros don't have support for the i965 (X3100 graphics) chipset yet (got it in Arch with testing packages). Sabayon is the only one I found that claims to support it fully, but I want to use arch. I know my problem can be fixed easily. Everyone else has fixed it, but I think I'm missing something small...

buttons

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: Intel-hda no sound out of speakers. Can't compile alsa cvs. 1420n Dell

For anyone that has this problem, you can compile alsa-lib by going to your /usr/include directory and doing: sudo ln -s python2.5 python

Assuming you have sudo installed, etc.  Basically alsa-lib wants to find Python/python.h, but arch differentiates python2.5 and python2.4.

Sound should work with newer alsa drivers.  Make sure you have Front unmuted.  Unfortunately my microphone still doesn't work, but its a start.

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