got the "Intel 82801G ICH7 Family" sound card to work.

[Kam Leo]

On 3/28/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Todd Warner <taw at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I have a T60 widescreen laptop with this soundcard:
> > Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
> > Audio Controller (rev 02)
> >
> > That audio device, though supposedly supported, will not work out of
> > the box for many distributions I found out after smashing my head
> > against the wall for some time.
> >
> > Well, I got it working and filed a bug because the hack shouldn't be necessary:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222606
> >
> > I thought I would share in case anyone else has had that problem, and
> > from the looks of it, a lot of folks are running into this. So... this
> > is what I did:
> > 1. I ensured my box has the latest alsa
> > 2. I added these two lines to /etc/rc.local:
> > modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
> > modprobe snd_hda_intel
> >
> > Reboot and sound should work.
>
> Thanks, editing rc.local to remove and install the sound module fixed
> my sound problem,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234021

As a point of clarification, my sound card is a Soundblaster AWE64.