I have a Toshiba satellite, L30. I've tried installing Both Ubuntu 7.10 and the new release of Ubuntu, The Latest Mandriva, Fedora and Open Suse. All of these distros have no sound.
Somebody help me coz I really want to trash Windows.

When I execute /sbin/lspci | grep -i audio,
I get
ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01).
Then on running lspci, I get
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
09:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
09:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

I'm currently on the latest version of Fedora

Please, I'm a very newbie to linux, so please explain your terms as you assist.
Regards.

Hi. Do you know what chipset your soundcard uses? If you do not know this information, you can get it by running
That should work on any distro.

Hi

I had the same problem when I installed OpenSUSE 10.3 three months ago.
I have solved it by installing new ALSA drivers.

See here:
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?...ult_type=posts

maybe this will help

regards

The first thing to check is if the volume is turned up, open a terminal and type alsamixer check the main volume and make sure it's up, also look at the bottom of the bar and make sure it's not mutted. If it is press the m key while it is highlighted and it will unmute it. Use your L&R arrow keys to navagate the menu and the Up&Down to change levels. Then press the Esc. key to exit.

If everything is ok then run the alsa configuration util su into root, then type alsaconf and follow the instructions after its done it should prompt you to check your alsamixer for volume again.

I had no sound after I runned alsaconf

unload unneeded drivers and load your needed driver

# echo "soundcore ac97_bus snd-intel8x0" | xargs modprobe
# modconf

now don't run `alsaconf`, perhaps you want oss emulation to access '/dev/dsp' some older applications may require it

# echo "snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss" | xargs modprobe

note, I saw that there exists drivers for your notebook toshiba-acpi and toshiba in kernel/drivers/char, to detect if loaded try

# lsmod | grep toshiba

what is your Linux distro? You have mentioned you have tried with several (Ubuntu, Fedora...)
In all cases first I will install the latest version of ALSA.
It really worked for me.

OpenSuSE 10.3 comes with ALSA 1.0.14.
I installed ALSA 1.0.15 and problem disappeared.


Please check my entry done on “Oct 31 2007, 09:53 AM”:
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=38763

Follow the same steps.

If you install new ASLA , then reboot the system. I think there is no need to use ./alsaconf
In OpenSUSE you can work with YaST and this should be enough.

regards