FC7 cannot play sound on ACER TravelMate 6291-100512

[Yunus]

> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 19:40, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>> > Hi Yunus. Your modprobe.conf seems ok, but I believe you need to add a
>> > model option to one of the lines.
>> >
>> > I spent a bit of time on Google today, and a link on a post to the alsa
>> > developers list moved me to download the latest snapshot of the alsa
>> > driver. The post also suggested looking in ALSA-configuration.txt, 
>> > which
>> > I found in the unpacked tarball.
>> >
>> > For the snd-hda-intel module, and the following chipsets refer to Acer
>> > Travelmate laptops. ALC260, and ALC883/888.
>> >
>> > You'll probably find that alsamixer shows the chipset as one of these.
>> >
>> > The suggestion for both of these is to set an option of "model=acer"
>> > (without the double quotes).
>> >
>> > It's worth a go, so open a konsole (CLI), su to root, and in a text
>> > editor, Gedit, Kwrite, etc, go to /etc/modprobe.conf, and change the 
>> > last
>> > line that you show above, so that it says.
>> >
>> > options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=acer
>> >
>> > Save, then close the text editor. Still as root, run depmod -a, then
>> > reboot while praying.
>> >
>> > Whether this will work or not I don't know, but you only have to read
>> > through the ALSA-configuration.txt doc, to see how many variations 
>> > there
>> > are (up to now), for chipsets that use snd-hda-intel. Links below.
>>
>> You should not need to reboot. After running depmod, you should be
>> able to run "modprobe -r snd-card-0" and then "modprobe snd-card-0"
>> to reload the module with the new options. I did a fair amount of
>> that when trying to find the model that worked right with my Toshiba.
>>
>> Mikkel
>
> Thanks for the info Mikkel, and referenced in my notebook.
>
> Whether model=acer works for Yanus may be a bit hit and miss, but worth a 
> try.
>
> Nigel.
Hi Nigel & Mikkel,
Thanks for your great help. I will give it a try.

You may assume me a linux novice with "Introduction to Linux" by Machtelt 
Garreles (I downloaded from Linux Documention Project)

yunus