10. SUSE on Compaq motherboard - no sound
Yes, I know this is an old question, in various forms. BTW, I'm not exactly a Linux newbie (I'm a UNIX oldie), but I'm new to this forum.
Anyway, hwinfo supplies the following:
34: PCI 10.1: 0403 Multimedia controller
[Created at pci.277]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_26c
Unique ID: wRyD.v6Qu7J6dWE9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:10.1
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company MCP51 High Definition Audio"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x026c "MCP51 High Definition Audio"
SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
SubDevice: pci 0x2a3a
Revision: 0xa2
Memory Range: 0xfe024000-0xfe027fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 7 (no events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd0000026Csv0000103Csd00002A3Abc04sc03i00"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
I recently Googled something that suggest I needed to upgrade to a 2.6.20 kernel to get the motherboard sound to work, but I'm not willing to do that (I don't care that much - it just seems like there's a simpler solution).
Any idea how I can get the onboard sound to work with the standard 10.0 SUSE distribution, running on a POS Compaq PC without a separate sound card, but apparently has the above-mentioned sound hardware? I know the sound worked when I recently bought the PC with Windows XP on it, so the hardware should be find (same cables, speakers, connection, etc.). This seems like a config and/or driver issue...
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks
Last edited by ebaxter1; 06-27-2009 at 04:16 PM.
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