NO Sound on Dell. Intel sound experts available?

[Mark]

I can,

Here is my lsmod.  I think this looks like sound drv is loaded
correctly?

Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   18497  1
drm                    63701  2 i915
ppdev                   8645  0
autofs4                19013  1
i2c_dev                 8773  0
i2c_core               20673  1 i2c_dev
hidp                   15937  2
rfcomm                 34517  0
l2cap                  23617  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth              44069  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                136573  1
ndiswrapper           159404  0
dm_mirror              19985  0
dm_mod                 50521  1 dm_mirror
video                  14917  0
button                  6609  0
battery                 9285  0
ac                      4933  0
ipv6                  225569  14
lp                     12297  0
parport_pc             25445  0
parport                34313  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
nvram                   8393  0
joydev                  9473  0
ehci_hcd               29005  0
uhci_hcd               28881  0
b44                    23245  0
mii                     5313  1 b44
snd_hda_intel          17233  1
snd_hda_codec         112065  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_intel8x0m          16077  0
snd_ac97_codec         83937  1 snd_intel8x0m
snd_ac97_bus            2497  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           3781  0
snd_seq_oss            28993  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7105  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                47153  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8909  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            45009  0
snd_mixer_oss          16449  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                76869  5
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22597  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    50501  13
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9377  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10441  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
ext3                  116169  3
jbd                    52693  1 ext3


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 06:02 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:50:47AM +0100, Leon wrote:
> > Mark <list at onnow.net> writes:
> > 
> > > This must be something simple but I can figure it out yet.
> > > I have no sound on my laptop when doing the sound test in
> > > system-config-sound or with "play info.wav"
> > >
> > > Dell 1300 laptop with FC5
> > >
> > > lspci shows:
> > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
> > > Family) High  Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
> > >
> > > modprobe.conf shows:
> > > alias eth0 b44
> > > alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0m
> > > #alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> > > options snd-card-0 index=0
> > > options snd-hda-intel index=0
> > > remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1
> > > || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
> > >
> > > I have seen posts where you must mute the input or something in
> > > alsamixer but I cant do that.  When I run alsamixer I have 4 fields
> > > ( master, pcm, capture, input so ) and capture or input so cannot be
> > > muted ( m to mute )
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on what I can try?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > I'm running dell 700m. My audio is: Multimedia audio controller: Intel
> > Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio
> > Controller (rev 03). Looks quite similar to yours. And the sound is
> > working fine.
> > 
> > Did you see your device correctly detected by system-config-sound? Is
> > it your sound muted?
> > 
> Another question is, can you see the sound module when you run lsmod.
> In my case I can't and no one has been able to tell me why.
> -- 
> 
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