NO Sound on Dell. Intel sound experts available?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Mar 28 17:52:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:17 -0700, Mark wrote:
> I do not see the section on linux-in-laptops on this.  I found a section
> that mentions an external amplifier switch on the far right hand side of
> alsamixer, but mine does not have that.  In alsa mixer, I have only 4
> fields ( master, pcm, capture, input so )
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> Help appreciated.
> 
Please do not top post.

Have you tried double clicking the volume control icon on the top panel?
Or opening the volume control from the menu?  I find more options and
friendlier control structure there.



> Mark
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:16 -0800, Jaysen Johnson wrote:
> > If you turn on the external mixer in the sound configuration.  Your sound 
> > should start working.  full instructions on how to do this is on
> > 
> > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com
> > 
> > Jaysen
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Simon Goodall" <sg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: NO Sound on Dell. Intel sound experts available?
> > 
> > 
> > > 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
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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