hello new to linux and the forum. i didn't do a lot of research about linux and im trapped. i have Sony VGN-A690. i was running win xp until i downloaded suse 9.2. now suse wont detect my sound card. pls help out. not sure what type of card i have. or if anyone knows any linux distros that works well with anything i found out that madrake is better to run.

http://www.sonystyle.com/intershopro.../A690_Spec.pdf

• Audio: Windows® sound system compatible, Built-in stereo speakers

• Audio Interface: Monaural mini microphone jack, Headphone jack

RealTek AC'97? I don't know. They don't have any details on your hardware for me to help you. Make sure you are using ALSA sound, and see if YAST can find your hardware at all. Post if yast finds anything.

thanks for trying to help me. i try yast to find my hardware and didnt find it. but i was looking under hardware info and found that under pci it says 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller . dont know if thats my sound card but i know for sure that yast is not detecting it. im so newbie that i dont even know if alsa is running on my system. also i think that the sound card (RealTek AC'97) the one that u tell me about could be it how can i configure it. thank u for everything

If you have a DVD burner, you can test the 9.3 live DVD.

http://www.novell.com/products/linux..._eval_int.html

Compiled for x86 and 64bit. Perhaps a newer kernel may be the magic bullet. It's guesswork since the chipset isn't listed anywhere.

where can i find a new kernel for suse and fedora

thanks thoreau for ure help im running suse 9.3 live cd and it detected my sound card as

Model: "Sony 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x2668 "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x104d "Sony Corporation"
SubDevice: pci 0x81cd
Revision: 0x04
Driver: "HDA Intel"
Memory Range: 0xfebf8000-0xfebfbfff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 11 (1870 events)
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd-hda-intel is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd-hda-intel"
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

and still have no sound and no mixer please help

Hello everyone, I have the following hardware:

Sony VGN-A690
1 Gigabyte Memory
Intel Centrino 1.8GHZ
100 Gigbyte Hard Drive
Intel IPW2200 Wireless Card
Intel - Realtek High Definition Sound
17" Screen which goes to 1900X1200 resolution
Graphics Card - ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Have Fedora Core 3 with kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3. I configured this system from a document written by Stanley Finley. I found it on one of the forums, can't remember which one. It was very detailed and enabled many graphic updates to the system.

SOUND DOES WORK on this. I'm not sure if its because I compiled and installed alsa-1.0.9 or not but it works now. I can play DVD, CD's and MPG's with sound. I don't play many games so I don't know if the sound works on games. I do get sound on Yahoo messanger.

Here is the strange part about the sound that doesn't work. The computer came with a A/V dock which has built in TV with two speakers with a sub-woofer. I can not get any sound out of those speakers when this system is docked. The only sound comes via the headphone jack which is located on the computer.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try running alsaconf as root. I've seen this work on some stubborn sound cards before.