No Sound on D865PERL Intel Motherboard (SoundMax)

[Matthew Zimmerman]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:43:41PM +0800, Richard Challinor wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 15:54, Richard Challinor wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 03:18, Jens-Hanno Schwalm wrote:
> > > Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Richard Challinor um 14:09:
> > > > I am having problems getting sound working with my Intel on-board sound
> > > > chip (SoundMAX I think). I have downloaded and installed the latest ALSA
> > > > RPM from the Fedora web site but still no joy.
> > > > 
> > > > When I run soundcard detection it finds Model: Intel 82801EB AC97 Audio
> > > > controller it then attempts to load the i810_audio driver that fails to
> > > > load.
>[snip] 
> I installed the latest ALSA RPMS from the FreshRPMS web site and ran
> alsaconf. It could not find a sound card.
> 
> Help. I am well out of my depth now.

Well, if alsaconf doesn't do the right thing, you can try configuring
it by hand. This mainly means deactivating the OSS sound modules,
loading the ALSA modules, and modifying /etc/modules.conf to do
the same automatically:

http://freshrpms.net/docs/alsa/
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intel&card=i820&chip=i820&module=intel8x0

I did this precise thing myself last week (with the FreshRPM packages),
and sound's now working fine. Good luck!

-- 
      Matt

      Matthew Zimmerman
      Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia
      http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/