Re: Sound on PCG-GRX670

On August 4, 2003 Nick Golder muttered:
 > On 03-08-03 23:16 -0700, Mark Kaufer wrote:
 > > From the bit of googling I've done, it looks like I'm not the only one
 > > who's experiencing strange things w/ the audio on my VAIO.
 > > 
 > > I've got a GRX670 and the sound will only play in small, second long bits.
 > >  The really odd thing is that it will play normally only when the USB
 > > mouse is moved constantly.
 > > 
 > > With 'lshw', I've been able to determine that a lot of devices are using
 > > the same IRQ:
 > > 
 > > # lshw |grep -i irq |sort |uniq
 > >                 configuration: driver=cardbus irq=3
 > >                 configuration: driver=e100 irq=9
 > >                 configuration: driver=radeonfb irq=9
 > >              configuration: driver=intel810_audio irq=9
 > >              configuration: driver=usb-uhci irq=9
 > > 
 > > So I can see why the audio may be affected by the use of a USB device and
 > > verified that on the XP side, the same configuration is set.
 > > 
 > > I'm using 2.4.21, the "i810_audio" and "ac97_codec" kernel drivers loaded
 > > as modules, but has anyone been able to get audio on their similar VAIO
 > > model working properly?
 > > 
 > 
 > Sounds like the common interrupt routing problem that is experienced by
 > non-ACPIied kernels.  Do you have ACPI compiled into your kernel?  What
 > distro are you using?
 > 
i had a simular problem with sound on my GRX700 which using ACPI
solved.  a couple pointers that helped me:

  http://www.prongs.org/linux/sony/

and

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36832&release_id=83005

i'm usinga vanilla kernel 2.4.21 with the acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff
patch applied.

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