No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 14:28:24 EST 2007


On 2/5/07, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> >  Hrm, 026c?  Must have been an upgraded device since the initial page
> >was written, as the other MCP51's are 026b.
> >  Adding:
> >{ 0x10de, 0x026c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, DEVICE_NFORCE }, /* MCP51 */
> >  to the snd_intel8x0_ids array in sound/pci/intel8x0.c will cause the
> >intel driver to recognize and handle the card.
> Yeah, you'd think that might be a reasonable shot-in-the-dark,
> but I tried it already - blood everywhere! - it was horrible...
> The difference between 026b and 026c is apparently large.  ;->

  But the hda_intel supported it minimally?  What kernel version?  The
changelog to the module seemed to insinuate that it worked pretty
well.

-- 
-- Thomas


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