Hi all,

I am trying to get RHEL4.7 work fully on a dell precision t1500. Everything is working fine except for the sound card. in the specifications it says it has an "integrated High Definition Audio (Rev 1.0 Specification) implemented with a two-chip audio solution comprised of the ADI 1984a High Definition Audio CODEC and the ICH10's integrated AC97/High Definition digital controller"

RHEL4.7 can not detect the soundcard. running system-config-soundcard return no sound devices were found.

lspci returns the following:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [Quadro FX 580] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)


it looks like there is a soundcard found but not the correct one?

arecord also returns no soundcards found.

I am running 2.6.9-89.0.25.

I would very much appreciate any help. Regards.

Fatih.

PS: Due to a cad software requirement, we can not upgrade to RHEL5, but use RHEL4.

Which thing exactly? You might try $ cat /proc/asound/cards if you're using alsa.

well, i thought 00:1b.0 Audio device is something related but there is no /proc/asound directory, so no sound card?

Don't really know. If you are using alsa, advanced linux sound architecture, then the absence of the directory does not look good, as does your point about arecord. Oh - hang on, the presence of arecord suggest the presence of alsa. A very simple thing obviously is to run $ alsamixer and see what happens, are the channels muted?

Just looked at the computer's specs type thing on the internet and after the Windows stuff it actually mentions: Ubuntu 9.04 Linux 32-bit as an operating system. (Should we worry about Ubuntu?)

So it might be the line of least resistance to try Ubuntu 9.04 Linux 32-bit - you could just download a live CD, stick it in the CD-drive and see if sound works. If you want the RHEL thing you might then rip off, and get ideas from the Ubuntu configuration files.