[ale] No Sound from FC4 - Clue Needed

[Barlow, Jim D]

I'm a GNU/Linux (currently gentoo) only guy, but I can tell you what to
look out for.

I would compile the kernel with ALSA support, but not the drivers, and
install the ALSA drivers 10.3 I think? And ALSA tools and utils..  This
will load compile modules against your source tree.   When you load
things up it still will not work for a couple of reasons,

1.	You'll want to run alsamixer (from alsa utils/tools) and make
sure that the levels are set above zero

You may alos have to:

2. 	You want to find and run the script that updates the
modules.conf or the ALSA sub config file that rolls up into modules.conf
(or whatever redhat calls it) and identifies the module to be used as
snd-intel8x0

I've gone through this recently on an 865 board...

- Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 7:47 PM
To: Charlotte Linux Users Group; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] No Sound from FC4 - Clue Needed

 
 Background - My girlfriend's RH9 machine (not on a network) got
seriously 
 wacky, not getting through the boot sequence before rebooting, and then

 not booting at all. Rather than "waste" time with proper trouble
shooting, 
 I elected to replace.
 
 Problem: I'm not able to get FC4 fresh install to access the sound card

 hardware. The hardware works, because Knoppix 3.9 finds the sound card
and 
 works. Under fedora, I'm not able to play the cd drive (audio cd) nor
get 
 the sound config gui to successfully configure the sound card.
 
 The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 series, 865PE Motherboard
(this 
 from the manual) with a P-42.4 GHz processor and 256MB ram.  Sound is 
 supposedly an integrated Realtech ALC655 AC '97 CODEC chip.
 
 Clues and/or actuall solutions happily accepted with thanks.
 
 

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