Alubook 5,8: No sound with 2.6.17-rc3-g5528e568-dirty

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 13:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 09:47 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > Same as mine, it works fine with snd-aoa
> 
> I should build a database with a machine string -> user* mapping... This
> means that even my brother has this one and it works great with snd-aoa
> as far as I know :)
> 
> Though, since the alsa userspace libs absolutely *SUCK* no program I
> know of can properly represent the mixer controls except maybe amixer...
> I'd hate to work around this in the kernel, but the alsa libs are such
> complex beasts that I have a feeling they won't be fixed.

kmix looks approx. ok

> Anyone up to inventing a new mixer API that uses sysfs? ;)
> 
> johannes