Sound problems with FC3 on Sony Vaio laptop.

Gain Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Sun Feb 6 02:18:15 UTC 2005


Gary Stainburn wrote:

>Hi folks.
>
>I've just upgraded my laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-GRT996VP) from FC1 where I 
>had no sound to FC3.  I now have sound, with the mixer reporting the 
>sound driver as SiS S17012. I can't see anything in modules.conf or 
>modprobe.conf relating to sound though, which is surprising.
>
>[gary at dcomp5 ~]$ cat /etc/modules.conf
>alias eth0 sis900
>alias usb-controller usb-ohci
>alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
>alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>alias floppy off
>alias char-major-195 nvidia
># Note: for use under 2.6, changes must also be made to modprobe.conf!
>[gary at dcomp5 ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
># Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
>alias eth0 sis900
>alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
>alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
>alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>alias char-major-195-* nvidia
>install floppy /bin/true
>[gary at dcomp5 ~]$    
>
>
>The problem I have is that although the volume controls work, the sound 
>that I hear is stuttered, as though the needle on a record is sticking.
>
>Anyone know how I fix it?
>
>
>  
>
Sadly there may not be an easy fix for the soundquality... However you 
may want to try and search http://alsa.opensrc.org for this card (which 
uses the intel8x0 driver) for some driver options you could add to the 
modprobe.conf fiile and see if that imporves your sound quality.




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