no sound on-board intel laptop

I looked at the HCL and I think someone was saying that this chipset is used with a bunch of intel sound cards that are all supported.

Please help if you can it would be great.
This is a new install of a couple of days and have not had any sound at all.
I included lsmod stuff that looked like it had to do with sound.


Mandriva One
uname -r:
2.6.17-5mdvlegacy

lspci:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH 4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)


lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corp.|ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24c5 subv:161f subd:202f)

/

lsmod:
nd_intel8x0 28796 1
snd_ac97_codec 91524 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2816 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 66148 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 18916 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8328 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd 44452 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,
snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7808 1 snd
video 13924 0
snd_seq_dummy 3492 0
snd_seq_oss 29312 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7008 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46832 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7052 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 39040 0
b44 21740 0
mii 5472 1 b44
snd_mixer_oss 15264 1 snd_pcm_oss


service alsa start
ALSA driver (version 1.0.12) is already running.

Thanks for any replys,

/sOk this is weird It keeps telling me I have included too many images with my post go back and remove some of them.

I got most of the info posted but am still trying to get the rest

/sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound 0ff 1ff 2n 3n 4n 5n 6ff

AHA! I dont know how I got it this messed up but there it is, what a tard.

sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa 0ff 1ff 2n 3n 4n 5n 6ff

grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

Sorry for the mess

Got it going.Started messing around with settings I don't understand in the kmix mixer and unchecked "external amplifier"

I too have no sound. The PC is a Gateway MX6447. Here the relevant output of lspci:

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 437b (rev 01)

Ubuntu Mint Bianca shows no mixer, though other distros (OpenSuse 10.2, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu 6.06 & 6.10, Mandriva 2007, do) None of them give me any sound. Interestingly, when I boot this machine with NetBSDLive, I get sound, with extremely limited mixer function. Basically volume only.

I've read gobs of forum posts about this problem, so it must be common, but none have helped me.

This is an AMD64 system, but I've had even less success with the 64-bit distros I've tried.

I will post the output of any other utility available if anyone has an idea about this. I keep MS Windows on here only because sound works. Everything else is perfectly satisfactory with just about any mainline Linux distro.

Thanks for any help I can get.

Oops, I read the "what to include" post after I posted this question.

the lspci listing above was from Ubuntu Mint. This one is from PCLinuxOS:

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)

dmesg | less shows nothing that I recognize as belonging to a sound device.

same with /var/log/messages, & /var/log/kernel/info.

This from ControlCenter>Hardware>Soundcard:

Identification
Vendor: ‎ATI Technologies Inc.

Description: ‎SB450 Azalia HD audio

Media class: ‎NOT_DEFINED

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI

Bus PCI #: ‎0

PCI device #: ‎20

PCI function #: ‎2

Vendor ID: ‎0x1002

Device ID: ‎0x437b

Sub vendor ID: ‎0xffff

Sub device ID: ‎0xffff

Driver
Module: ‎snd-hda-intel

Kmix shows an empty "device" field.

lsmod:
snd_pcm_oss 43072 0
snd_mixer_oss 16608 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel 19320 0
snd_hda_codec 163072 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 76868 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22884 1 snd_pcm
snd 52804 6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10152 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Did you get yours going sherpalou?

I dont see a "device" feild in the kmix on my machine, but my kmix did have a "switches" tab, under which I unchecked the "external amplifier" button and I started getting sound.

Good luck.

No, not yet. I playing around with several distros and am currently trying with freshly compiled alsa-drivers on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). I have Fedora Core 6 on here too, and sound actually worked for a while. An upgrade got me back where I started. =( I´ll let you know if the new alsa drivers help at all.

Woohoo! Compiling fresh alsa drivers seemed to do the trick.

Here´s what I did:
Downloaded using this link: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive....14rc3.tar.bz2
(On a tip from Brian Visel on: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...ver/+bug/88570)
tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3
sudo ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
make
sudo make install

Then I rebooted and was greeted with the Ubuntu start-up sound. Yay!

Maybe this will work for you, too.

sherpalou