On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:18, GN wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 November 2008 13:41, GN wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I cannot get sound to work on my Medion MD96420 laptop. According to > >> Vista the card is a Realtek High Definition Audio card. Maker Realtek > >> Semiconductor Corp.. Driver Version (for Vista) 6.0.1.5523. Two of them > >> are listed, one at Location 2 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus) and > >> Location 0 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus). > >> > >> Under Fedora 9 the audio card is listed as Intel Corp.82801H (ICH > >> Family) HD Audio Controller (Rev. 03) > >> > >> Works fine under Vista but absolutely nothing under Fedora 9. I tried to > >> build the Linux driver from the realtek site (LinuxPkg_5.07.tar.bz2 > >> which unpacks to realtek-linux-audiopack-5.07) but it fails complaining > >> about needing curses. I have all the ncurses RPMs installed. I have had > >> no response from the Realtek support people about this. > >> > >> I tried building the drivers from the latest alsa-drivers tarball. All > >> went OK and installed without error. Again nothing... > >> > >> The main problem I see is that there is no way to start the sound > >> server. There is no option in the sound preferences utility as described > >> in the help file for it. See attachment. System > Administration > > >> Services had alsasound and alsasound.new. Both showed as running but not > >> enabled. I enabled both but didn't help. Re-booted, still no sound. The > >> ALSA driver is running according to the alsasound script. > >> > >> /sbin/lsmod | grep snd gives the following: > >> > >> [graeme@flintstone Download]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd > >> snd_hda_intel 376568 0 > >> snd_seq_dummy 6788 0 > >> snd_seq_oss 30748 0 > >> snd_seq_midi_event 9728 1 snd_seq_oss > >> snd_seq 45604 5 > >> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device > >> 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > >> snd_pcm_oss 36640 0 > >> snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss > >> snd_pcm 63108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss > >> snd_timer 21128 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > >> snd_page_alloc 11656 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > >> snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel > >> snd 47032 10 > >> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_o > >>ss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore > >> 9288 1 snd > >> [graeme@flintstone Download]$ > >> > >> > >> Perhaps pulseaudio needs to be stopped. but I cannot see how to do that > >> at the moment. Clicking on the Volume Control in the panel elicits "No > >> volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found" Opening the > >> pulseaudio volume control shows "no streams, no sinks and no sources > >> available" Got me stumped! > >> > >> I have the following alsa rpms installed as well as the alsa-driver > >> tarball I installed yesterday: > >> > >> [graeme@flintstone utils]$ rpm -qa | grep alsa > >> bluez-utils-alsa-3.32-1.fc9.i386 > >> alsa-oss-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386 > >> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386 > >> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386 > >> alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386 > >> alsa-oss-libs-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386 > >> alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386 > >> [graeme@flintstone utils]$ > >> > >> Has anybody managed to get this sound card working? All help > >> appreciated. > > > > Hi. Can you post a bit of output please. > > > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > cat /proc/asound/version > > cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 > > > > If the card is shown as card0, open alsamixer as user on a terminal, as > > below. alsamixer -D hw:0 > > > > This will show all the playback controls. There may be something muted (M > > key toggles mute/unmute), or some sliders may need pushing up. The main > > ones would be Master, PCM, and Front, along with the CD one if you are > > trying sounds with a music cd. > > > > You may need to set a model option for snd-hda-intel in > > /etc/modprobe.conf, as below. > > options snd-hda-intel model=medion > > > > Then reboot, and check alsamixer again. > > > > Just some suggestions. > > > > Nigel. > > Hi Nigel, > > Thank you. > > There are no sound cards recognised, and I don't understand why. See > following; > > [graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards > --- no soundcards --- > [graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/version > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a. > Compiled on Nov 18 2008 for kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 (SMP). > [graeme@flintstone ~]$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 > cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec#0: No such file or directory > [graeme@flintstone ~]$ > > Is there something really basic I'm missing? Hi Graeme. I see that on your original post here, that you say Vista identified 2 instances, and I have seen this before where the soundcard uses snd-hda-intel, and a sound component in the graphics card also uses snd-hda-intel (HDMI I think). As your lsmod line for snd-hda-intel shows that nothing is using it, signified by the "0" at the end of the line, how about removing the module, and re-installing it. Do an su to root on the CLI (terminal), and run the commands below. rmmod snd-hda-intel modprobe snd-hda-intel If rmmod complains, use modprobe -r snd-hda-intel Then run, cat /proc/asound/cards again. Can you post the output of /sbin/lspci -vv as well. Post the whole lot, as we can trim it on the reply. Did you by the way try adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf? options snd-hda-intel model=medion I may be running out of suggestions, but your info provided, may bring others in on helping to resolve your problem. 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