Who is running linux on their M17x and what distro and how did you get sound working?!

I'm ripping my hair out over this one... I get sound in the new MEPIS alpha and openSUSE but no sound in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, FC12 (which also has SEVERE graphic corruption to the point where I'd be worried to leave it on long enough to even install it), or Sabayon...

I'm grabbing Mandriva PowerPack 2010 right now... but this is pissing me off. On top of it neither MEPIS nor openSUSE work out of the box with the Broadcom chip but Mint does. *grrrrr*

Any help here?

 

I'm running Arch Linux on my m17x. Graphics and sound works fine, but I only get sound out of the headphone jack, and both Hybrid and Integrated have to be disabled in the BIOS. Since I use the m17x as a desktop replacement that doesn't affect my daily use (I have external speakers), but if I take it with me I have on sound from the internal speakers...

By the way I'm using the proprietary, current beta version of the Nvidia drivers.

Here's two of my configuration files:

/etc/modprobe.d/sound:

Code:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
# module options should go here
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Layout0"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "SynapticsTouchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
        Option          "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "synaptics"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option          "Xinerama" "0"
        Option          "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us, il"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "SynapticsTouchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "AlwaysCore" "true"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "false"
    Option         "LeftEdge" "1700"
    Option         "RightEdge" "5300"
    Option         "TopEdge" "1700"
    Option         "BottomEdge" "4200"
    Option         "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
    Option         "HorizEdgeScroll" "true"
    Option         "CornerCoasting" "true"
    Option         "CoastingSpeed" "0.30"
    Option         "TapButton1" "1"
    Option         "TapButton2" "2"
    Option         "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Seiko"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 75.0
    VertRefresh     60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Device0"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        VendorName      "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName       "GeForce GTX 260M"
        BusID           "PCI:2:0:0"
        #Option         "SLI" "true"
        #Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier     "Screen0"
        Device         "Device0"
        Monitor         "Monitor0"
        Option          "TwinView" "1"
        Option          "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection     "Display"
                Depth       24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

 

Well I found that sound works out of the box on the new Mepis alpha and openSUSE... As in sound coming from the built-in speakers. So I guess I'm going to give openSUSE a try... Sad that I have to drop Ubuntu (particularly Mint).

 

Hello people,

I try Debian, 5.03 Lenny... Sound good from the beginning... but nvidia i can get that work.

Then Mint, no sound, no nvidia video... so sad for me , luv mint!

Opensolaris, i could not get video testing it from the LIVE CD!!!!!...


On the nvidia web site it's a new version of the gtx 260M...190.x i guess!

have you try it ?

thanks

 

Have you tried tomshardware.com Alot of people deal with linux another area is computer amarica here a website right to linux http://forums.techguy.org/22-linux-unix/

If you can get the sound and video working with Linux. That might help point where the sound issue is on Vista and Win7

 

I've given up. Someone suggested that I blacklist the audio-intel-hda since its loading the IDT codec but then Ubuntu crashed and GRUB got trashed and blah. Not worth the hassle.