[Solved] EEE PC 701 and Sound

Question

Hi,
I've just installed my first ArchLinux distribution on my eee 701.
This distribution offers the exact level of control/confort I wanted.
As instructed, I've installed the dedicated kernel for eee pc (kernel-eee) which is built witch every needed driver directly in the kernel.
(Anyway, this is the unique configuration for which I manged to have wifi working. With "normal" kernel, wifi was not working, neither with madfiwi, nor with ath5k)
The probleme is that with this kernel, I cannot have the sound working.
With the ARCH kernel, it was working well, after, i've added
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig
to modprobe.conf
But, of course, with the "monolithic" EEE kernel, this line is useless, since the snd-hda-intel is not a module, but is built in the kernel.
So, there is my newbie's question : is there a way to pass this option to the built-in hda-intel driver of the kernel-eee ?
Or else, is the a way to have sound working with kernel-eee ?
Last edited by chlg (2010-01-14 04:11:55)

Answer 1

Well why not ? (hum, I guess you could say : "because you want sound" ;-))
My first reason is that I did not manage to have wifi running with the stock kernel. Ath5K and madwifi (ath_pci) refuse to work (exactly as if the link were down : no complaint when I load the module, the interface is (are for madwifi) visible. But impossible to do anything with it). But I must admit that I've not tried very hard, since I supposed that eee-kernel was intended to be used.
Which is my second reason : I suppose that if an eee-kernel is existing, and maintained, it is supposed to work better on eee than generic kernel.
3rd reason : the boot is really faster with eee-kernel (which is absolutely not surprising)
4th reason : why not ? I'm sure that there are many ways to have my sound card working. You could even have asked "Why don't you install the last KUbuntu ; it works well on eee". Well, because I don't want to. I want to have my eee laptop working with archlinux and the eee-kernel :-D
I suppose that this kernel should work correctly with eee (or else, I don't see the point), hence my question. If the answer "eee-kernel cannot handle sound" (which would surprise me), of course, I will have to try another solution, such as recompiling another kernel (I will do this sooner or later anyway). But else, I would like to know how to use it ^^
Last edited by chlg (2010-01-13 20:58:55)