Hi Everybody,

I have a Dell Inspiron 630m notebook with Intel centrino processor, 1Gb rab, onboard sound card and video card.

I recently installed Fedora Core 5 on my Dell Inspiron 630m (also goes by XPS m140) notebook. My problem is that it shows that it has dected the sound card when I run the "system-config-soundcard" but it does not play any sound.

I tried to play with Kmix and see if the audio is muted but that is not the problem. The on some other thread I read that in the 3rd tab of Kmix which is 'switches' there is something called 'External-Mixer' which might be stopping the sound but there is no switch like that.

The soundcard detection tool shows following information:
Vendor: Intel
Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 FAMILY) High Definition Audio Controller
Module: snd-hda-intel
Default PCM device: STAC92xx Analog or STAC92xx Digital

On my windows partition it shows that the audio drivers are SigmaTel audio controller 9250, so I'm guessing that FC5 has also detected the soundcard but its not playing any audio.

I also tried to check in bios if onboard sound is disabled but I couldn't find any option. But I get normal sound on my Windows partition so I'm guessing that its turned on at Bios.

If someone can please give me some pointers on how to make this thing work I would really appreciate.

thanks,
Pks

how'd it go with this?? did you manage to get it resolved?? the first thing i would do (or would have done) is to boot an ubuntu cd (live mode) and see if it works there... if it worked there i'd check to make sure the same modules are getting loaded from fedora...

I did boot with Ubuntu Live CD and the sound was working with that. But I'm not that familiar with Linux and can not make out which modules to load.
Although I tried to play around with the audio setting and it didn't help either. Can you please give me any pointers as to which modules I should check and how.
thanks a lot.
humdesi

when you boot the ubuntu live cd and sound is fine, run this command (from a terminal):it should provide you a list of the loaded modules... if that command doesn't work then try:post your results here...

then do an /sbin/lsmod on your FC5 box, and post those results also...

once we have a look at those two results, we can compare them and it might help us determine what is going on and what further actions you should take... it might be as simple as running alsaconf...

good luck...

Hi win32sux, thanks for your help. But I decided to uninstall Fedora and install Ubuntu since the sound was already working on that.
I really appreciate your help.
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humdesi