Sound problems with FC3 on Sony Vaio laptop.

Endy endy at digitalgrotto.net
Sun Feb 6 02:22:00 UTC 2005


Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:

> Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> I've just upgraded my laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-GRT996VP) from FC1 where 
>> I had no sound to FC3.  I now have sound, with the mixer reporting 
>> the sound driver as SiS S17012. I can't see anything in modules.conf 
>> or modprobe.conf relating to sound though, which is surprising.
>>
>> [gary at dcomp5 ~]$ cat /etc/modules.conf
>> alias eth0 sis900
>> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
>> alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
>> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>> alias floppy off
>> alias char-major-195 nvidia
>> # Note: for use under 2.6, changes must also be made to modprobe.conf!
>> [gary at dcomp5 ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>> # Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
>> alias eth0 sis900
>> alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
>> alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
>> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>> alias char-major-195-* nvidia
>> install floppy /bin/true
>> [gary at dcomp5 ~]$   
>>
>> The problem I have is that although the volume controls work, the 
>> sound that I hear is stuttered, as though the needle on a record is 
>> sticking.
>>
>> Anyone know how I fix it?
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Sadly there may not be an easy fix for the soundquality... However you 
> may want to try and search http://alsa.opensrc.org for this card 
> (which uses the intel8x0 driver) for some driver options you could add 
> to the modprobe.conf fiile and see if that imporves your sound quality.
>
You could try changing your mixer settings.  I know that if I have the 
PCM settings at 100 I get a bit of static coming out of my speakers.




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