Re: Sound on Acer Aspire ZWLMi notebook

[jery_wang]

> Lee's reply.
>
> There's really no telling.  It's misleading to say "snd-hda-intel is
> supported" because every single laptop and motherboard with
> snd-hda-intel is slightly different and there's absolutely no
> documentation on what the differences are.  Possibly the hardware is
> oncorrectly detected.  It's also possible that these devices simply have
> no hardware master volume and Windows emulates it in software.
> Since you only seem to have 2 channels, doesn't "Front" work as a
> master?

I believe this is right. On a laptop with this chipset 'MASTER' vol is more likely to be emulated and 'PCM' and 'FRONT' should be enough to get sound. Well, there's one less thing to worry about.  :-D