William L. Maltby wrote:
Thank you both Bill and Alex.
NP.
We're happy to try to help. I have a friend with your model of
laptop, I'll see if I can sucker him into letting me futz around
with it for a day or two. I'll report back!
I'm thinking now, we have garnered enough new information that an
assault on google might yield results. I suggest you give it a try.
I decided to investigate proc. I don't know if that might be
fruitful, ... BRB
Well, all directories or empty files all the way down the tree. No joy
in mudville.
Not entirely sure what one would glean from /proc other than that
the card is present and drivers are loaded for it. There's lengthy
output for my sound device. I won't paste all of it, but everything
is located in /proc/asound. My device is also listed under
/proc/devices as one would expect.
I don't muck in /proc very often other than for testing network
setups and obtaining cpu and memory information, so the output for
my soundcard means next to nothing to me other than I know the
correct driver is loaded.
[prata@crane asound]$ ls
card0 cards devices modules oss pcm seq timers V8237 version
[prata@crane asound]$ pwd && cat modules && cat cards
/proc/asound
0 snd_via82xx
0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
VIA 8237 with ALC850 at 0xe800, irq 209
Given that your machine is reporting the device as present (despite
not getting any sound) I am under the impression anything you get
out of proc would be correct as well. Just to through more confusion
on the issue. ^_^
Last idea, if no one else from here chimes in. Do a google (again) and
try the alsa or other Linux lists.
I don't know why I never googled around on the Alsa lists. That was
stupid of me. Opensuse has some forums with this problem as well. I
didn't see a fix, but I didn't spend too much time looking there. If
there is a fix, maybe they have an srpm that could be massaged into
working in CentOS?
If you do find a solution elsewhere I'd really appreciate a link or
something just for my own knowledge down the road.
Sincerely,
Alex White
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