Hello All

I am having an issue with my FC11 sound. I have read and tried may different threads. I need some serious help.

I get sound, it is just very quiet and sometimes scratchy and skippy.

I have ensured that the GUI volume is up and that the alsamixer volume is up. Strange though that alsamixer shows a generic 'unkown" soundcard.

When I run alsactl init I get
Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Conexant CX20551 (Waikiki)" "HDA:14f15047,103c30a5,00100000" "0x103c" "0x30a5"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method


It is a HP laptop dv8000 (specifically dv8048us).

any help would be great...have used many versions of linux, but still consider myself somewhat of a newbie when it comes to delving deep into hardware "innerworkings".

Thanks in Advance.

It's possible that that thing has more controls that need to be set; please show the output of "amixer scontents".

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Front Left: Capture 60075 [92%] [on]
Front Right: Capture 60075 [92%] [on]



Also, at the suggestion of another thread I have installed pulsaudio. Is this a "no no". If so how can I uninstall and return to alsa?

PA shouldn't make things worse.

Those controls look OK.
It's likely that the driver does not know about the specific hardware configuration of your laptop.

So....what can I do to help the situation???