No Sound in Dell Dimension 5100C
 

Forum people

I'm sure you could help me with this topic. I have a Dell Dimension 5100C, I installed Fedora Core 4 but the sound doesn't work. The soun device, identified is:

Intel - Corporation
82801G (ICH7 Family) High definition Audio Controller

When the dialog box asked me to check the sound, there's no sound and the message that I have is "The sound device is not available"

I hope you could help me with this.

Regards

Dennis Ludena

I was having the same problem a while ago, to fix this use the command:

unmute everything by pressing M on the bars that say MM at the bottom of them

then raise the volume of everything.

press esc to exit alsamixer

this should work to get your sound working.

Hello

Thanks for the answer, I did waht you told me, but unfortenetely it didn't work.

When I check the sound device with the system tools, I have the next message just after say "no" to the answer if I herad the sample sounf.

"Automatic Detection of the sound card did not work. Audio will not be available on the system. Please click to continue"

I hope you could help me with this device.

Regards and thanks

ArturoD

Worked perfectly :)

Cabal

Thanks for the answer. I tried with "alsamixer", but I only found one bar, named PCM and this was unmute, I think the problem is with the configuration of the card, I looked for another answer and some answers says that I need to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.13-rc3 but I dont know how to compile and boot it, now I am looking for this information, if you know how to do this, please send me this information, it would be very useful for me, of course I have to work on it!!!

Thanks and regards

Upgrade? Maybe not.

You have 2 posts that were precious to me: about sound and about network card. Your motherboard uses the same chipset as mine (I have a Intel D945GNT). It seems FC4 is kinda dumb, because it did not detect onboard hardware.

Anyway, I fixed my network yesterday (I will post my solution later on) and started updating everything by RHN. After a few packages, I decided to try and install the 2.6.13.1572 kernel (if I'm not mistaken), to see if it could find my sound card. After that, I still had no sound.

Then I tried alsamixer, and it worked at once, no further problems.

The trick in your case may be that you have to autodetect your soundcard inside gnome. It will find the "Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High definition Audio Controller" or whatever (which is in fact, the correct hardware). Then, test it for the sound sample, and when the popup windows asks if you heard the sound, answer "yes" (even if you haven't heard anything - which was my case).

Then try alsamixer again.

Cabal

Thanks for the answe. Could you explain in detail the procedure to upgrade the kernel to this version???? Another related question, I found the driver in www.intel.com but the driver is made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1, can I used this driver???

Thanks for your answer and for your time.

Regards

ArturoD

I don't think you need to upgrade your kernel. Nor use an external driver.

I'll describe what I did again, step by step:

- In your X (probably Gnome), go to the autodetect sound card utility. It will detect your Intel Audio card.
- Test your soundcard in the dialog window. Chances are that you are NOT going to hear anything.
- Even so, answer "yes" to the question (as if the sound worked). I believe this makes the sound card "active". If you answer "no", your system will have no sound whatsoever.
- Open a console terminal, and type the command "alsamixer"
- In my case, three bars appeared. Just one of them had a "MM", indicating the sound was muted. Unmute it, and any others that may appear.
- Adjust the volume for everything.

Your system will probably have sound now.

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Related to upgrade your kernel (and everything else):

In a console terminal, use the "yum" command. Or in X, you can use the big icon by the side of the clock.

Cabal

I did what you tell me step by step and I still dont have sound and more, when I am using the internet, sometimes the system hang up!!! so I have to turn off the PC, and when its loading the system the "sendmail" procedure makes the boot stop. What could happened

Regards and thanks for your time

ArturoD

Well...

I'm no expert. Too bad that your sound does not work.
I've described my solution, but I guess it will not work for a Dell machine, for some reason :(
Perhaps you could try the driver provided by Intel, but I'm not sure if it will work.

The sendmail process can be turned off somewhere, I don't remember exactly now. It happens with me sometimes. Although it does not freeze the boot process, it takes an awful amount of time to complete. You can search for this thread concerning sendmail around here, there are valuable information in it.

You said that your system hangup when using the internet. Is it really the system, or your connection just dies? If your system really freezes, then this is way beyond my knowledge, I myself wouldn't know what to do.

I'm facing the second problem myself. My connection sort of stop working out of nothing (?). Since I haven't used my FC4 for a few days now, I can't be really sure what is going on. I will test it a little more during the next days.

If that's your problem too, you can try to reset your modem or network, I don't know how you access the internet. I use an aDSL modem, and I had to turn it off and on over and over and over again, when updating my system. :(

Yeah, FC4 is proving to be a pain in the ass.

2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
type alsamixer, then mute the option Line Jack Sense

Steigert

Thanks for your answer, well I found two files in thhe updates of Fedora:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...pdates/4/i386/

this files are:

kernel-2.6.13-1.5.532_FC4.i586.rpm and
kernel-2.6.13-1.5.532_FC4.i686.rpm

Could you please tell me wich one of these two should I use???

Regards

ArtturoD

Can't help you, dludenar. I'm very new to linux and I can't tell the difference between these packages yet...
All I do is

Steigert & everybody

Thanks for the help, I tried the way you update your kernel and it works fine, thanks again, now I have sound. Well thanks for your help and for the time that you give to solve this problem, now I have another problem but this is a matter of a new post.

Thanks again from Japan!!!!!

ArturoD

There's no need to update kernel. It is enough to update ALSA. Version 1.0.10 works perfectly.