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Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

I'm actually kind of surprised that I've resorted to making a forum post on this topic, but really I'm just flat out of ideas.

I just got this laptop yesterday, and immediately reformatted it and installed arch.  Everything's working (X, openbox, network to an extent, etc), with the exception of alsa.  For some reason, aplay isn't working, or rather I don't hear any sound when I type the command "sudo aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" (sudo just to make sure it wasn't some queer permissions problem).  Every channel in alsamixer is unmuted, and I even kept on increasing the volume up until everything was at 100%, still to no avail.  I followed the standard procedure in the arch beginners guide, so alsa-utils, alsa-oss, and alsa-lib are all installed.

I tried running alsaconf as root, set up every card that it discovered (didn't probe for legacy chips, though), which, for reference are...
*hda-intel          Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller)
*hda-intel          ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
*legacy             Probe Legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
and said yes to it modifying any modprobe.conf files (this is all after I had tried doing it manually as described on the alsa wiki page, mind you).

So, can anyone point me in the right direction?  I can't hear anything through the speakers, or headphones if I plug them into either of the 3.5mm output jacks (yeah, there's two on this machine).  I'd really like to get mpd+sonata running on this thing next, but that would be kind of pointless if I can't hear anything.

celtic426

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Registered: 2009-07-16

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Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

This might be a fix: http://www.namanb.com/2009/07/ubuntu-so … tudio.html

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Subject-17

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Registered: 2009-07-23

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Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

Thanks, that got my speaker and one of the two headphone jacks working.
For anyone else who's having this problem, just add

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6

to your modprobe file(s)
(just to make sure, I added it to these three)

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf

Now to get mpd, sonata, wireless, bluetooth, camera, mics working.  It's going to be a fun weekend ;-)

Janusz11

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 87

Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

Actually, you only have to add the options to the /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf file. So it should look like this:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6

If you want to use the second headphone jack simply unmute it in alsamixer. Make sure you have created a /etc/asound.state file first. Check the Wiki for more information on the latter subject.

Subject-17

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Registered: 2009-07-23

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Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

Yeah, sorry, figured out that stuff later.  That's the only file that I have using this stuff now.

If a mod sees this thread, you can mark it as solved.  Thanks for the speedy response guys :-)

cellax

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 5

Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

I had the same problem and the same Laptop, Dell Studio 1555:
just exec as root: "nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf"

and add this line:
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6

it works for me. modeprobe.conf files are empty.

Last edited by cellax (2009-08-09 22:45:49)

lararefaeli

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Registered: 2009-08-27

Posts: 3

Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

Hi...
I am having the same problem with my Dell vostro 1400. Can any one help me with this? I got my bluetooth and wifi not working. I've downloaded the latest drivers for it and apply it. It gives an error says "Device not found". Help me out from this.Thanks in advance.

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bdc417

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Re: Alsa issue on a Dell Studio 15

Please post your Linux compatibility reviews for this product at http://ubuntuhcl.org/browse/product+del … 15?id=7263