2 Aug
2007
2 Aug
'07
12:11 a.m.
On 8/1/07, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:58:41AM -1000, gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com wrote:
Actually the HDA intel situation is getting better - apparently, the
correct initializations needed to make a given device work can be
extracted from the .inf file of the windows driver. Not sure exactly
how it's done, but it's definitely possible...
Lee
The reason you see the options for "caller
ID" and "off hook" is that
the Intel HDA chipset also includes a modem. My laptop uses Intel HDA,
and I'm used to the modem part showing up as if it were an audio device.
The audio works on my laptop except for an inability to record from the
mic input. Last I heard, ALSA was blaming the kernel, and kernel
developers were blaming ALSA. Although I haven't tried it since my most
recent kernel update.
The culprit is, as it often is, neither the kernel nor the ALSA.
The bad actor the hardware manufacturer. Apparently the chip is not well-specified, and
hardware manufacturers just do their own thing, without documenting it, and write
proprietary drivers "which make it work" in Windoze and OSX.