So the problem is can't get no sound on my laptop...

it says it has a hda_intel

"Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"

I've searched around a couple of forums... and added
model=lenovo
model=asus
model=3stack
model=asus-dig

on the /etc/modprob.d/sound

(some people say to add the extra code to the alsa-"something" folder in the modprob-d but i don't have such a file...

I hope there is someone out there with the knowhow to help me out...

Thanks in advance to you guys.

Welcome to LQ!

I've got that chipset in my laptop and Slackware 12.1 does recognize it. The first thing to do is check that the snd_hda_intel module is loaded. Try running lsmod and see if that is in the output. If it is there, the next thing to do is run alsaconf to configure the sound system.

This is what it says:

Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
snd_seq_oss 34560 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50896 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10636 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 39968 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 234724 31
pcmcia 35884 0
pcmcia_core 35988 1 pcmcia
lp 13348 0
parport_pc 27556 0
parport 34632 2 lp,parport_pc
fuse 45588 1
snd_hda_intel 338840 0
sdhci 18692 0
mmc_core 47236 1 sdhci
snd_pcm 70148 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
video 19472 0
output 6656 1 video
battery 14340 0
snd_timer 22916 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
thermal 16540 0
ac 8068 0
snd_page_alloc 11656 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
iwl3945 88424 0
intel_agp 25236 0
snd_hwdep 10756 1 snd_hda_intel
led_class 7300 0
serio_raw 9092 0
snd 49188 10 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe r_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
agpgart 30664 1 intel_agp
iTCO_wdt 13988 0
mac80211 122124 1 iwl3945
psmouse 40336 0
hci_usb 16924 0
processor 32680 1 thermal
button 10000 0
atl1 34316 0
evdev 12672 5
asus_acpi 17948 0
bluetooth 53860 1 hci_usb
cfg80211 14600 1 mac80211
iTCO_vendor_support 7044 1 iTCO_wdt
soundcore 9824 1 snd
mii 8448 1 atl1
sg 30224 0
rtc_cmos 11040 0
rtc_core 18696 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 6528 1 rtc_core


I'm a newb on these things so... What should I do here?

P.S: I've runned alsaconf a couple of times, also after I change the sound file in modprob.d and set everything on 100. Still can't get it up and running, maybe i'm not doing it right...

Should the "snd_hda_intel 338840 0" say 1 instead of 0 ?

Thanks in advance.

The point of looking at lsmod was to see if the proper driver was loaded. In this case, the proper driver is snd_hda_intel, which is in the list. That's a good thing. One thing that is much harder to tell is if all the supporting modules are loaded. You might try removing and then reloading the driver and see if that helps:

modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
modprobe snd_hda_intel


Can you describe what happens when you run alsaconf? Once you've run it, does anything show up in alsamixer?


Mine is pretty simple and doesn't have any settings:

I don't think so, but I'm not entirely sure. That 0 says how many other modules are using snd_hda_intel, and I don't know that any other modules should be using it.

Also, by any chance are you running KDE? I don't know if it is important, but KDE has some of its own sound system software (namely arts) that might be mucking things up.