don't get sound from my laptop

pokjak · 08-19-2005, 05:17 PM

hi i have just installed red hat in my acer travelmate 280 and i found out that when i'm tryin to test the sound, the sound didn't come out. does anybody know how to solve the problem?

win32sux · 08-19-2005, 05:29 PM

red hat?? which version?? have you tried running alsaconf??

pokjak · 08-19-2005, 05:51 PM

ver 9. when i test the souncacd detection it said that "Automatic detection of the soundcard is not available on the system"

pokjak · 08-19-2005, 05:55 PM

how to run alsaconf????

win32sux · 08-19-2005, 10:58 PM

actually, i can't remember if red hat 9 comes with alsa out of the box or not... see if you have any alsa packages:

Code:

rpm -qa | grep alsa

if you have, well, to run alsaconf just type that command into a terminal as the root user... to become root use the "su" command...

Code:

alsaconf

but if you don't have alsa then you'll need to load the appropriate oss modules for your sound chip... you should be able to see what chip you have by doing a:

Code:

/sbin/lspci | grep audio

maybe post the output of that if you want...

BTW, you should really consider using a more modern, maintained distro... like maybe mandriva or suse or something... just a thought...

pokjak · 08-20-2005, 06:43 AM

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)

pokjak · 08-20-2005, 06:47 AM

[pokjak@pokjak pokjak]$ su
Password:
[root@pokjak pokjak]# cd ..
[root@pokjak home]# rpm -qa |grep alsa
balsa-2.0.6-1

balsa - what does it mean?

win32sux · 08-20-2005, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pokjak
[root@pokjak home]# rpm -qa |grep alsa
balsa-2.0.6-1

balsa - what does it mean?

don't worry about it, it has nothing to do with ALSA...

Quote:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)

well, this guy seems to have got his sound chip (also an 82801DB) working with OSS by loading the i810_audio kernel module:

http://www.triptico.com/software/linux-ts-a30-303.html

so looks like you might just need to do a (as root):

Code:

modprobe i810_audio

if that works, then it's just a matter of making sure the module gets loaded on startup...