FC4 - No Sound on Dell Dimension 5100

[Erik Hemdal]

> > Aaron:
> > 
> > Do you have any pointers about what to do in the "classic" case when one
> > has done all of the above, including increasing the output of alsamixer,
> > and yet no sound comes forth?  I have similar sound hardware on a
> > similar laptop (the I1100) and none of the "usual suspects" has been my
> > culprit.  The repairs I've found here, in the archives and on Google,
> > don't seem to fix the problem.  So no sound, until I have more time to
> > sort it out.
> If the correct modules are in the modprobe.conf and the modules are
> loaded as seen by lsmod then I am as clueless as you are.

It's trying to use intel-8x0 driver.  System-config-soundcard can
correctly identify the sound card, and I would assume that if we can
identify the card we can select a good driver.

So the drivers that s-c-s says are the right ones are being loaded.
Whether they are right or not, I can't say.  I know the hardware is
working, because it worked in FC3 and works in Windows.  

Thanks for trying to help.   Erik

> > 
> > This morning, after upgrading a different system from FC3 to FC4, I
> > discovered that while xscreensaver-base was upgraded,
> > xscreensaver-gl-extras was left out.  So I had xscreensaver, but no
> > screensavers to show with it.
> > 
> > This has nothing at all to do with sound, except it makes me wonder if
> > some necessary package was left out of the default installation on my
> > laptop for sound support.
> > 
> The above problem with xscreensaver occurred when I upgradd from FC3
> to FC4. Obviously a bug in the upgrade script. I also had to add the
> missing rpm.

>From another post, I gather that the screensaver issue was done
deliberately to separate the screensavers from the xscreensaver code.
But the result is that when you go to set up your screensaver via
Desktop > Preferences > Screensaver, there's nothing to set up.

Erik
> > 

> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484