FC7 cannot play sound on ACER TravelMate 6291-100512

[Yunus]

> Yunus wrote:
>>  
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I have just purchased an ACER TravelMate 6291-100512 laptop. I would
>> like to install dua OS (FC7+ WinXP SP2). I tried to install WinXP SP2
>> first. But WinXP SP2 could not detect my HDD because it missed SATA
>> driver. FC7 was my last hope. I installed FC7 but I encountered some
>> problems. One of the problems was failure in testing sound. Here are
>> some info from scsconfig.log I hope it will help you to identify the
>> problem 
>>  
> The problem with the Intel HDA sound is that the chip can be
> configured in many different ways. Some of the configurations the
> driver knows about, and others it doesn't. If it does not know about
> your configuration, it defaults to a basic configuration. You can
> tell it to use a specific configuration in /etc/modprobe.com. For
> example, in FC6, my Toshiba laptop works with
> options snd-card-0 index=0 model=auto
> but in F7 I have to use:
> options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=ref
> 
> I need to play more, because it isn't entirely correct for my
> configuration - the line control does something strange. But it does
> work, while the without model=<something> in the options line, you
> can not adjust the volume - you are missing one of the controls to
> you need so the sound is too quiet.
> 
> Mikkel

Thank you for your hint. I will give it a try

yunus