[linux-audio-user] nVidia MCP51 HDA

[Dave Phillips]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>   OK, I'll play along. I'm a new user setting up a new machine. I
> don't know what driver to build. How do I find out without resorting
> to joining lists or doing long, boring web searches. I looked at the
> alsa-project.org sound card lists didn't show it. It only listed the
> intel8x0 driver which was all I built before I started writing emails.

--with-cards=all

That oughta do it. :)

>   And alsaconf worked just fine, but only once the driver was built.
> My original thought, which seemed innocent enough, was that alsaconf
> understood all the PCI IDs and then determined what driver to put in
> modprobe.conf from that. Apparently not.

Indeed. I got bit by this one recently. I was surprised when alsaconf 
didn't report the existence of my PCI128. lspci could see it, but not 
alsaconf, *until* I built and installed the ens1371 driver. So the 
--with-cards=all option really is the best way to go for anyone who 
doesn't know for sure what hardware is in their system or which driver 
they need for the hardware.

Best,

dp