I currently have alsa-lib, alsa-utils, and alsa-driver-1.0.4 installed on my Fedora Core 3. Fedora still does not see my Realtek High Definition sound device. I was able to get sound working once with the help of a specific website but have lost that site after reformatting and haven't been able to find it since. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What do you mean "does not see my ..." - will it not show up with lspci ?

We'll need your kernel numbers and the card name + chipset.

Did you know the alsa project do not list realtek as a supported manufacturer?

Some realtek cards have issues - do you have oss emulation enabled for instance?

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...lsa-howto.html

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa/

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Howto/Alsa-sound-1.html

Alsa has Realtek drivers. My laptop is ALL Realtek and everything works. That's a Debian installation, and if I remember right, the Alsa Drivers are 1.08. Realtec has recently open-sourced all their stuff. There is even a sourceforge project getting their wireless network card to work. I haven't tried to get it working yet, tho

Sorry for the vagueness. The output of lspci is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI ExpressPort 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller(rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300(PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
03:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
03:04.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
03:05.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)

My current kernel is 2.6.11-1.14_FC3.
From what I understand my sound card is an on board Realtek High Definition audio device. I'm not sure about the chip set, but my computer is an HP if that helps.

I finally remembered what I need to do to make alsa work, so I figured I would post it for anyone else that has the same problem. I need to configure the alsa driver as follows:

./configure --with-cards=azx --with-sequencer=yes

and then make and make install like normal.

haha! Well done!

I also had this problem some time ago with my Mandrake. The solutions in simple: You need alsa 1.0.8. This alsa version will automaticaly recognize Intel High Definition Audio after you type alsaconf. It had problems reinstalling alsa, so I needed to change to the newer Mandriva LE 2005 in order to get alsa running.

Hey Jenkins, I believe I have the same motherboard as you do Intel 915PBL, and i'm having issues with my onboard sound. I have downloaded and installed alsa-drivers 1.0.8/ alsa utils/ alsa tools/ alsa libs/ alsa oss to no a avail. can you tell me exactly what you did to get your onboard sound to work, i would appreciated. I hate working and not be able to listen to some music, thanks in advance

jenkinsMcTipsy,I currently meet the same problem with you .
I am a beginner of linux.Please help me .
I have installed the alsa-driver-1.0.8,alsa-lib,alsa-utils,But
I don't know how to modify the file "/etc/modprobe.conf"
Can you tell me in detail how to modify the file ?
Thanks a lot.