Kunal Shah wrote:
I know this problem has been discussed n number of times here. I have
been googling for this but could not find proper resolution.
It seems that i have two problems and solving them can cause other
problems as i have see earlier too.
Prob 1.
I am using Gateway 4535Gz laptop and in the configuration document it
shows that i have
Analog Devices SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
(I have downloaded chip identification util from intel site and i can
give you exact chip number for the same if you need to assist me.)
but in linux when i do sound configuration from GNOME it detects that i
have intel ac97. I dont know how they are related.
Prob 2. If the sound card detected by linux is accurate, still i dont
have sound. I have gone through each and every documentation in alsa
proj site and double checked all the mixer settings that nothing is
mute.
If i try to install new alsa driver ( alsa-driver rpm is not installed
in fedora and its not available on fedora site. Only alsa packages
installed on my system are alsa-lib and alsa-devel). it screws up the
module information and next time when i do modprobe snd_intel8x0, it
gives me tons of errors.
Please let me know if any one can help me in what is going on.
Addition information about system
[kunalshah@laptop ~]$ rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
alsa-lib-1.0.6-7.FC3
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-7.FC3
[kunalshah@laptop ~]$ uname -r
2.6.10-1.760_FC3
[kunalshah@laptop ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
[kunalshah@laptop ~]$ sudo su -
[root@laptop ~]# modinfo soundcore
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
description: Core sound module
author: Alan Cox
license: GPL
alias: char-major-14-*
vermagic: 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
depends:
srcversion: 4CCBC38AF44D1461882C573
Thanks
Kunal
Ok, Fedora uses the drivers provided by the version of ALSA merged into
the kernel, at this point only ALSA 1.0.6 has been merged into
kernel-code. This is an outdated version of ALSA, the current version is
1.0.8. That is why you don't see an ALSA-kernel-module package in the
fedora downlaods, becuase it is already into the kernel package. Only
-utils and -lib are really necesary as separate packages... I'd really
recommend you checking for an updated version of ALSA and if you can,
search the archives of the alsa-user mailing list, there are some nice
tips in there for these sound cards (plus the installation instructions
at the alsa-prject site).
