NO Sound on Dell. Intel sound experts available?

[Simon Goodall]

Does this work with headphones?

I needed to play with the IECXXX and External Amplifier mixer switches 
before getting sound out of the main speakers on my dell.

Simon

Mark wrote:
> This must be something simple but I can figure it out yet.
> I have no sound on my laptop when doing the sound test in
> system-config-sound or with "play info.wav"
> 
> Dell 1300 laptop with FC5
> 
> lspci shows:
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
> Family) High  Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
> 
> modprobe.conf shows:
> alias eth0 b44
> alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0m
> #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 have seen posts where you must mute the input or something in
> alsamixer but I cant do that.  When I run alsamixer I have 4 fields
> ( master, pcm, capture, input so ) and capture or input so cannot be
> muted ( m to mute )
> 
> Any thoughts on what I can try?
> 
> Thanks in advance
>