FC4 - No Sound on Dell Dimension 5100

[Dave Cross]

On 8/13/05, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:37:54PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> > I've just installed Fedora Core 4 on my new Dell Dimension 5100 and it all
> > works very well except that I can't get any sound.
> >
> > I have the onboard Intel sound controller. lspci recognises it as this:
> >
> > 00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
> > Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
> >         Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab
> >         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
> >         Memory at efebc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> >         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> >         Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
> > Queue=0/0 Enable-
> >         Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
> >         Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
> >         Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
> >
> > The "configure sound card" app, finds the sound controller, but no sound
> > plays.
> >
> > /etc/modprobe.conf looks like this:
> >
> > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> > options snd-card-0 index=0
> > options snd-hda-intel index=0
> > remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
> > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> > alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
> > alias eth1 e100
> > alias eth0 orinoco_pci
> >
> > When I run alsamixer, it only shows one channel - PCM. I'd expect to see a
> > number of channels.
> >
> > If anyone has had any luck getting this to work, I'd be very interested in
> > hearing how.
> >
>
> Again this seems like a classic case that requires running alsamixer
> and increasing the output on relevant channels.
> The Application-> Sound and Video -> Volume Control might also help.

Yeah, that's what I thought too. But i tried running alsamixer and it
only showed one channel (labelled PCM) which was at 80% and wasn't
muted. The GUI version showed exactly the same thing.

Cheers,

Dave...