NO Sound on Dell. Intel sound experts available?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:50:47AM +0100, Leon wrote:
> Mark <list at onnow.net> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> I'm running dell 700m. My audio is: Multimedia audio controller: Intel
> Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio
> Controller (rev 03). Looks quite similar to yours. And the sound is
> working fine.
> 
> Did you see your device correctly detected by system-config-sound? Is
> it your sound muted?
> 
Another question is, can you see the sound module when you run lsmod.
In my case I can't and no one has been able to tell me why.
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