2010/7/9 Rafael Beraldo <rafaelluisberaldo@gmail.com>:
Hi,
I bought a Asus 1201N and installed Arch on it. Sound (a nVidia MCP79) works but I think sound is too low. I've set everything in alsamixer to 100% and even with a headphone it is still low. Although I can hear it well, I think this netbook can amplificate sound a lot more.
Also, the built-in microphone doesn't work. alsamixer doesn't show the controls of it, just of the pararel mic.
Hi Rafael. MCP79 is a pretty common chipset, and support is mostly good (I have it on a Macbook 5,1 and on a mini-itx board and it works fine on both). However, some variations still aren't well supported, but work is ongoing. I suggest you to give a try to the kernel26-rc package on the aur: 2.6.35-rc4 is a very stable release, and reading the shortlog I found a commit that may be helpful at least for your second issue: commit b8f171e7e7ed5c9b77324bcc6bb580ddcc84da49 Author: Alex Murray <murray.alex@gmail.com> Date: Mon Jun 14 12:08:43 2010 +0930 ALSA: hda - Fix line-in for mb5 model MacBook (Pro) 5,1 / 5,2 The line-in input is 0x7 not 0x2 for MacBook (Pro) 5,1 / 5,2 models HTH, Corrado