Fedora 8 installing onto Dell Latitude 610

[Jon Nettleton]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:56 +0000, Dave Russell wrote:
> 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.
> 

Also make sure you are booted without any external usb sounds cards
connected, including webcams with usb mics integrated.