Sound on Acer Aspire ZWLMi notebook

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Hello JeeBee,

Your /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't look right. Try this:

alias eth0 8139too
alias wlan0 ipw2200
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

I am not sure what changes were made when installing the alsa development releases but the only thing you really need from those is your alsasound file from the Driver package which you have already copied to /etc/init.d (permissions 755).


> 
> [root at localhost etc]# /sbin/service alsasound stop
> Shutting down sound driver: done
> 
> [root at localhost etc]# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_page_alloc         11272  0
> 
> Is correct. My /etc/init.d/alsasound explicitly omits to
> rmmod snd_page_alloc.
> 


That is normal.


> 
> [root at localhost etc]# /sbin/service alsasound start
> 
> Gives no output at all.
> 


Good.


> 
> [root at localhost etc]# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_page_alloc         11272  0
> 
> Hmmm, nothing because I removed the modprobe conf?
> 


There should have been a long list there but there isn't because /etc/modprobe.conf is missing the line

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

so your soundcard wasn't properly initialized. This also caused alsamixer to fail.

Go through the routine again with the new modprobe.conf and post your results. You might also need

/bin/alsaunmute 0

at some point. Let's keep /etc/modprobe.d/sound in /tmp for now.


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