snd-hda-intel does not work before reloading

[Erik Bakker]

I have a hardy installation on a Dell XPS M1330

The sound does not work after booting, but only starts working after a '/sbin/alsa reload' which unloads modules and reloads exacly the same modules again:

root@link:/home/eamelink# /sbin/alsa reload
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-hwdep snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device (failed: modules still loaded: snd-hda-intel snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-timer).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-hwdep snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device.

After this, the sound works fine. Before this, there is no sound whatsoever, but also no errormessages. I can see the right channels in a mixer, but there is just no sound output. Dmesg gives nothing grepping on snd.

[Erik Bakker (eamelink)]

This problem has been solved by adding

options snd_hda_intel model=auto

to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base