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Can anybody recommend (or know of) a Linux distro that will play sound on a Samsung Q1 Tablet PC 2005 Edition? 2009.1 versions of Mandriva and PCLOS have no audio issues but all new versions will not play sound. I've tried Ubuntu, Mint, Suse amongst others including Jollycloud Pre-Final which is supposed to be designed especially for notebooks. None of them play audio. Assistance to overcome this hurdle would be much appreciated.
I should add that I have spent hours and hours (days!) trying to find a fix without any success. So I am not interested in any more checks. I just want a distro that will work out of the box.
Can anybody recommend (or know of) a Linux distro that will play sound on a Samsung Q1 Tablet PC 2005 Edition?
All of them..
The point is that, for any distro, you sometimes have to configure things.
The first step is to see if a driver is installed for your sound device:
In a terminal:
To identify the device, enter "lspci"
In my case, I have this:
Quote:
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Then, this tells me if a driver is installed:
lsmod | grep via
(Several tries may be required to narrow it down---In my case, the driver is "snd_via82xx")
The point is that, for any distro, you sometimes have to configure things.
The first step is to see if a driver is installed for your sound device:
In a terminal:
To identify the device, enter "lspci"
In my case, I have this:
Then, this tells me if a driver is installed:
lsmod | grep via
(Several tries may be required to narrow it down---In my case, the driver is "snd_via82xx")
Appreciate you coming in Pixellany. What you suggest has already been carried but it doesn't get me anywhere. Both my sound card and its driver are identified and they work with older (no longer supported) distros. Newer ones like Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, Fedora-13, etc. do not recognize my sound card. Could it be a kernel issue? Thanks for your time.
Please post the lspci output as requested by pixellany. No one can help you if you don't say what the device is (other than people who have the exact same "Samsung Q1 Tablet PC 2005 Edition").
Please post the lspci output as requested by pixellany. No one can help you if you don't say what the device is (other than people who have the exact same "Samsung Q1 Tablet PC 2005 Edition").
Evo2.
Sorry...I'll have another go. Here it is:
riki@riki-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 81
Thanks for assistance. BTW the driver is snd-hda-intel
Guys, I think I've nailed it. It's definitely a kernel issue and I am not the only one from what I read elsewhere. Prior to kernel 2.6.28 audio works on this Samsung Q1 Tablet PC. Any kernels from 2.6.28 onwards will not recognize my sound card and therefore won't play sound no matter what. I've proved it running different livecds (Suse, Mandriva, PCLOS, etc.) with kernels 2.6.25, 2.6.27, etc., all with audio. End of story. Now, how can I use/import a suitable kernel for new distros so that it will recognize my sound card on this Q1? I've looked in synaptic (several distros) and only the latest kernels are available. Q1 (bought 2006) obsolete? Hope not! Any comments most welcome.
Maybe its Pulseaudio. Pulseaudio came into the distros around after kernel 2.6.26, if Im not completely mistaken. Check the pulseaudio configuration,too. (lucky guess)
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