internal mic - Toshiba Satellite L750 with Nvidia chipset

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Hello forum,
Has anyone had any luck with getting the internal mic (adjacent webcam) to work?
Toshiba Satellite L750 with Nvidia chipset (not mine, it belongs to a friend who has W7/PCLOS dual boot installed)

I've Google'd  this patch> $  echo "options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Script created file alsa-base.conf as expected but results were unsuccessful (intended for Narly Nachos I think)
It looks like the L750 audio chipset is similar to thinkpad ? but I don't know how to apply this to PCLinuxOS.
Any help appreciated..  TIA
Cages

[AS]

Hi Cages,

you can use the following commands to correctly identify your friend audio card:

lspci will return a list of device, including audio:

...
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
...

a further command:

lspci -v -n -s 00:1b.0

will provide extensive info about the device:

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
        Subsystem: 1028:0275
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48
        Memory at f8300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

the above should help to correctly identify the card.

About the option, in PCLinuxOS usually there is the following line added to /etc/modprobe.conf

options snd_hda_intel model=auto

whenever you identify a possible alternate option, (such as model=toshiba), simply edit that file and change the option.
A reboot is required to correctly reload the module with the new option. At any time you can revert back the change.

AS

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About the option, in PCLinuxOS usually there is the following line added to /etc/modprobe.conf
options snd_hda_intel model=auto
whenever you identify a possible alternate option, (such as model=toshiba), simply edit that file and change the option.
A reboot is required to correctly reload the module with the new option. At any time you can revert back the change.
AS

I should get a chance to try later this week.  Many thanks AS!
Cages