No Sound on Fedora Core 7

Damon24 · 08-17-2007, 08:47 AM

I recently installed Fedora Core 7 on my hard drive partitioned with Windows XP. However I am unable to get any sound working from headphones/built in speakers/external speakers. I have installed the latest ALSA drivers and made sure the volume controls were unmuted and at 100% volume. I've added "options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=3stack" as my bottom line in /etc/modprobe.conf.

I don't know what else to do. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A100-VA1.

Here is what I get when I use lspci -v

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
        Memory behind bridge: c0000000-c00fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31
        Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at 8440 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 8430 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 8420 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 8410 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
        Memory at c0507000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 44000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at c0504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at c0505000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at c0506000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
        I/O ports at 8450 [size=16]
        Memory at c0507400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 8460 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
        Memory at c0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
        Memory behind bridge: c0200000-c02fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 40000000-43ffffff

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 22
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Unknown device 7106
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at c0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel

05:06.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
        Memory at febfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=05, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 40000000-43fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 48000000-4bfff000
        I/O window 0: 0000a800-0000a8ff
        I/O window 1: 0000ac00-0000acff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

05:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
        I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Memory at c0200800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

05:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev c0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
        Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        I/O ports at a400 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Thank you very much in advanced.

jay73 · 08-17-2007, 09:13 AM

Some have reported success using this:

options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-digout

x_terminat_or_3 · 08-17-2007, 09:17 AM

My dear boy, if you *had* tried everything, the world would be a different place now.

Starting with Fedora Core 4, there is a possibility of your soundcard being set to optical out,to check this, go to your mixer, select switches and turn off optical out, maybe toggle digital out.

If all of that still doesn't work, it might be that your system is locked in spdif output, to check this, type in a konsole:

Code:

iecset

Quote:

Mode: consumer
Data: audio
Rate: 48000 Hz
Copyright: permitted
Emphasis: none
Category: PCM coder
Original: original
Clock: 1000 ppm

If Data is set to non-audio, then try this

Code:

iecset audio on

Damon24 · 08-19-2007, 01:50 AM

Lol I was being sarcastic about the "Everything"...

But thanks for both of your replies. I have tried both and still no luck.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

Damon24 · 08-23-2007, 10:14 PM

I guess I'm stuck with no sound then... :P

Spinlock · 09-05-2007, 12:18 PM

After much frustration, I finally fixed my sound problem (which is probably the same as your sound problem). Kernel 2.6.23-rc5 fixes the problem that the hda-intel chipsets in apparently dozens of laptops seem to be having. As far as I can tell, the problem seems to be related to the sound card freaking out when it has too much ram to deal with... My sound worked fine in Slack 12 with 512Mb of ram, but I could "turn it on and off" by adding and removing a 2Gb stick of ram.

x_terminat_or_3 · 09-05-2007, 12:51 PM

May I ask, what drove you to try adding and removing ram to diagnose your soundcard problem?

Spinlock · 09-06-2007, 08:41 AM

Well, basic programmer's troubleshooting method... when your program runs fine before adding code, and NOT after adding code, then you suspect the code you added.

Sound worked fine for me before I added the memory, and the one single thing that I changed was to add the memory. So there you go.

I also found out that there are many people with this sound hardware that have been having problems with it... mostly on high-mem machines. I ordered mine with less memory, because it was around half the price to buy and install the memory myself. Most people just ordered their laptops with the 2 gigs to start with.