Hello,

I am writing again regarding the sound (all sounds ie on startup, on audio cds) on my Sony VAIO PCG_GRZ515G laptop. I've searched almost all the help sessions and found only bits and pieces of information regarding having NO SOUND on statup in KDE installed on Redhat 7.3. I also do not have any sound when i try to play a cd. the machine seems to be reading the audio cd, but no sound comes out. The sound works fine in Windows XP (i have dual boot). The volume is cranked in the mixer, sound server, and system bell... I've noted some hopefully useful information below:

I ran /sbin/sndconfig and found out that my soundcard is:
Intel Crop.|82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio

Running sndconfig gives me no errors, except that when the system is supposed to play a test sound, it doesn't.

When I look at dmesg it contains the following lines near the bottom:
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 07:42:52 Apr 18 2002
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x18c0 and 0x1c00, IRQ 9
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x594d:0x4803 (Unknown)
i810_audio: only 48Khz playback available.
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x4358:0x5422 (Unknown)
i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog ready<3>i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb1:3.0
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 3
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 4
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb1:4.0


when i type /sbin/lsmod is get the following:
[root@geodyn bin]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)
i810_audio 23008 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 11904 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6692 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
radeon 97400 1
agpgart 39488 3
binfmt_misc 7556 1
autofs 12164 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds 8608 2
yenta_socket 12384 2
pcmcia_core 50752 0 [ds yenta_socket]
eepro100 20336 1
ide-scsi 9664 0
scsi_mod 108608 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 30272 0
cdrom 32192 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3488 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5120 1 (autoclean)
vfat 12092 1 (autoclean)
fat 37400 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
mousedev 5312 1
hid 21344 0 (unused)
input 5984 0 [mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 24484 0 (unused)
usbcore 73152 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 67136 2
jbd 49400 2 [ext3]


then, i went to /lib/modules/2.4.18-3 and when i ls i've got the following files:

[root@geodyn 2.4.18-3]# ls
build modules.parportmap
kernel modules.pcimap
modules.dep modules.pnpbiosmap
modules.generic_string modules.usbmap
modules.ieee1394map pcmcia
modules.isapnpmap

i saw in a previous help session that one suggestion was to "modprobe the module" but i don't know which one !!


when i look in /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/sound
ans do an ls is have:

[root@geodyn sound]# ls
ac97_codec.o gus.o sb_lib.o
ac97.o i810_audio.o sb.o
aci.o mad16.o sgalaxy.o
ad1816.o maestro3.o sonicvibes.o
ad1848.o maestro.o soundcore.o
adlib_card.o maui.o sound.o
aedsp16.o mpu401.o sscape.o
awe_wave.o msnd_classic.o trident.o
btaudio.o msnd.o trix.o
cmpci.o msnd_pinnacle.o uart401.o
cs4232.o nm256_audio.o uart6850.o
cs4281 opl3.o via82cxxx_audio.o
cs46xx.o opl3sa2.o v_midi.o
emu10k1 opl3sa.o wavefront.o
es1370.o pas2.o ymfpci.o
es1371.o pss.o
esssolo1.o rme96xx.o

Please can anyone help me ? I've been trying to figure out how to get sound day and night, and nothing is working. Please help me !!

Thanks a million,
claire