Fedora 8 installing onto Dell Latitude 610

[Dave Russell]

Vince O'Neill wrote:
> I am a compete novice on linux, but want to check this as a viable 
> alternative, as I work in a school, and we pay thousands to Microsoft!
> 
> I have used a live CD to check Fedora out on a laptop, but cannot get 
> sound to work.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction to correct this?

While I haven't tried the F8 live CD, this message is coming to you from 
a Dell D610 that regularly runs F7, F8 and more recently F9-Alpha with 
no problems at all.

The sound should work for you out of the box, I'd try the soundcard 
detection as someone else has mentioned, or possibly check to ensure 
that the sound output isn't somehow muted by default.

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