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Old 10-25-2005, 03:02 PM   #1
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Sound?

Hey, I run Fedora, and I did the sound test but the sound wont play, and I'm on a laptop. But the mute button on my keyboard is lite up, I press it and it doesn't go away, is there anyone who has had this problem before or knows how to fix this?
 
Old 10-25-2005, 03:35 PM   #2
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do you run KDE? If so, it's probably muted by default there. Try opening KMix and make sure the volume is turned up. If you don't run KDE, gnome probably has a similar thing, but I don't use it so I don't know.
 
Old 10-25-2005, 04:30 PM   #3
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Which model of laptop? Did you check it out against pages on www.linux-laptop.net ?
 
Old 10-25-2005, 04:50 PM   #4
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Pavlion ze200 by HP wasnt listed....
 
Old 10-25-2005, 05:38 PM   #5
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Open a console, su to root and type in alsamixer. Your channels may be muted by default. Press "m" to unmute and the up cursor key to raise the volume.
 
Old 10-25-2005, 06:10 PM   #6
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I had problems in the past with HP laptops, check my HCL (there actually an error, my laptop was ZT1135, and not ZT1132...)

I had to play a lot with the laptop, finally, I think I had disabled APM, so that enabled ACPI, and finally, it made ALSA soud work for a strange reason...

If you can, do a lspci as root and post it here.
 
Old 10-25-2005, 06:16 PM   #7
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whats a lspci, see I'm a complete newb to this stuff, I knew alot about windows and got bored of it so I wanted to try linux, so can you please tell me how to do a lspci? Thanks
 
Old 10-26-2005, 09:50 AM   #8
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Well, if you in KDE, you can click on "K", then Run command, and then you can type either konsole or xterm, whatever works. Then type "su", then your password (the starts won't show up, usually), type "/sbin/lspci".

Post the output here

Now heres a random tip from me: There is virtull consoles in linux, if you press CTRL+ALT+F1, you will end up in "tty1". If you type CTRL+ALT+F2, you end up in tty2... The graphical envorionment of KDE is tty7, so if you type tty7, you get back to KDE. The reason I'm telling you this is that if you accidently type CTRL+ALT+F1, you can get back to KDE without shutingdown your computer and start over. CTRL+ALT+backspace will restart KDE, and CTRL+ALT+ESC will give you a cursor in the shape of a skull, and you can use this to "shoot" an application that's not responding, you can undo the "skull" if you don't want to shoot anything, by pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC again...
 
Old 11-02-2005, 03:37 PM   #9
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Sorry this took so long, but hers the out come.


Code:
[Tai@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost Tai]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4370 (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5955
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02)
05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
05:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
05:09.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
05:09.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD)
[root@localhost Tai]#

I really want to watch a movie on here, and listen to music and have sound for games... so any help would be nice. Thanks. Have a day.
 
Old 11-02-2005, 04:41 PM   #10
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OK, your hardware resembles mine. So you might have similar needs as well...

Log out KDE, so you return to the login manager. Type CTRL+ALT+F1
Login as root, then type this:

lsmod
modprobe snd_atiixp
lsmod

Then type this:
alsamixer
Make sure that the soundcard is not muted. Make sure "master" doesn't have the letter "MM", if it does, type M. Then using the arrow keys, highlight PCM, if it has the letter "MM", press M to unmute it. Raise the volum of Master and PCM to a reasonable volume. Master is the master volume in windows, and PCM is Wave in windows. Press Escape when you are done (esc). Then type this:

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
Then press CTRL+C shortly afterwards, if you get an error, then it failed, report back here. If you don't hear sound, you didn't raise the sound enough earlier. If you hear something, it's great! If it's too loud, readjust the volume.

Logout by typing exit, then press CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back to the login manager and login KDE. You can always type reboot in the console to reboot your computer, and poweroff to close it.
 
Old 11-02-2005, 04:43 PM   #11
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The experiment above is just an experiment, if it works, then we will work towards making those changes permanant, which won't be hard... really...
 
Old 11-02-2005, 04:50 PM   #12
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I typed lsmod as root user and it said it wasnt a valid command
 
Old 11-02-2005, 04:55 PM   #13
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try /sbin/lsmod
 
Old 11-02-2005, 05:00 PM   #14
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it listed a bunch of stuff, and i tried modprob snd_atiixp and it said modprob not command
 
Old 11-02-2005, 05:02 PM   #15
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Copy/paste the "bunch of stuff" here, and try the command "modprobe" instead of "modprobe"...
 
  


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