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Problem with sound on Dell Inspiron 1300

Hi!

I need an advice of Linux expert.

I installed FC5 on my laptop Dell Inspiron 1300. But after instalation it turned out that I have some problem with sound.

The output of Soundcard detection was:

Quote:

The following audio device was detected.
Vendor: Intel
Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) Hijh Definition Audio Controller
Module: snd-hda-intel

But when I tried to play the sample sound I heard nothing and got a message:

Quote:

Automatic detection of the sound card did not work. Audio will not be available on the system. You can inspect /root/scsound.log and file a new bug at http://bugzilla.redhat.com

And when I log in as root or as a usual user the message appears

Quote:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue< using the null output device.

Is there any way to fix up my problem?

Thanks.

I got the same audio and it is working so this is probably a Fedora problem. Have you installed latest ALSA drivers? HAve you compiled the audio drivers as modules or into the kernel?

There's a problem. I tried to install alsa-driver-1.0.12, but when I ran make I got a lot of error messages. For example:

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.../pdaudiocf_old.c:424:error:unknown field 'event' specified in initializer

They ended up with make: *** [compile] Error 2

By the way the Installation guide of Alsa says that the kernel must be compiled with sound support. Is it possible to check if it was compiled in such a way?

You could go the the /usr/src/linux drectory if your kernel source is in there and issue:

Code:

cat .config | grep SND

Look for the line CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL. If it has =m end, then it has been build as module and it has =y it has been built into kernel.

When I did so I got the following answer

Quote:

CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m

But I didn't find the name of this module among the output of lsmod. When I tried to load it with modprobe snd_hda_intel the rezult was "No such file or directory". Where can I find it? Does it has other name? Or I did something wrong?