Intel soundcard not detected in FC4
 

(I'm running Fedora Core 4 on a Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop.)

I have a problem with FC4 detecting my sound card. When I run autodetect, it identifies my soundcard as:
Vendor: Intel
Model: Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
Module: snd-intel8x0

However, when I play the test sound, I hear nothing. It then tells me that soundcard detection has failed and sound will not be available on this system.

I don't believe it.

I read here (google search "Tecra M1 sound card" and click the first result for the site- the forum won't allow me to post URLs) that the soundcard is supported by the i810_audio driver, but I don't know where to specify for the system to use that driver (plus, the article's outdated). Does anyone know?

There's also another strange thing I've noticed. If I turn up the volume all the way, I can hear the speakers pop a bit when it tells me it's initializing the audio (after "storage" and "network" and close to after the kernel boots). I don't quite know what to make of this. I know the speakers are functioning correctly, because they beep when I enter the BIOS, but other than that, they don't make noise.

They DO beep when I am in the rescue mode shell booted from the first install disc. I don't know if this has anything to do with it.

My /sbin/lspci output is:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)


Any feedback at all would be apprecciated. Thanks!

#modprobe <driver its supposed to use> as root of course.

It tells me that the i810_audio module isn't found. I'm guessing it was removed some time between Red Hat 9 (the distro tried in the article) and Fedora 4. Any other ideas about why it's not functioning?

Yeah:
Whether you install a new kernel from an rpm, or build it yourself, you will have to get this module built and loaded if you want to use the souncard.

Wow! I ran up2date and found a new system-config-soundcard to install. I did, and now my card works! I'm so happy!

I <3 Red Hat.