Sound, Fedora 8, On Toshiba Satellite P107-S6147

[Justin Conover]

$ lspci -vvv |grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)

I have lost sound on my laptop on the 2 latest kernel updates.

Sound still works on.
2.6.23.1-42.fc8


On Dec 7, 2007 7:45 PM, Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:59 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> >
> >> Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:17 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6147 laptop with a standard Fedora
> 8
> >>>>>> installation (except for the madwifi driver set) and the sound on
> it
> >>>>>> doesn't seem to work. I get kernel messages like this, and a Skype
> test
> >>>>>> call doesn't work.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Dec  7 17:42:04 eng2 pulseaudio[2949]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0
> doesn't
> >>>>>> support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
> >>>>>> Dec  7 17:42:04 eng2 pulseaudio[2949]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0
> doesn't
> >>>>>> support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
> >>>>>> Dec  7 17:42:04 eng2 pulseaudio[2949]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find
> mixer
> >>>>>> control "Capture".
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any suggestions for how to fix this?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> It would help to know what audio the laptop has. You may need to add
> >>>>> an option to /etc/modprobe.conf to specify the configuration used.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mikkel
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Here is the audio device from lspci -vb:
> >>>>
> >>>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
> >>>> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
> >>>>         Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems AC97 Data Fax
> SoftModem
> >>>> with SmartCP
> >>>>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
> >>>>         Memory at 00000000d0340000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
> >>>>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> >>>>         Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> >>>> Queue=0/0 Enable-
> >>>>         Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is the modprobe.conf:
> >>>>
> >>>> cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> >>>>
> >>>> alias eth0 e100
> >>>> alias scsi_hostadapter libata
> >>>> alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
> >>>> alias scsi_hostadapter2 qlogic_cs
> >>>> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> >>>> options snd-card-0 index=0
> >>>> options snd-hda-intel index=0
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks very much!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Can you run
> >>>
> >>>     cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
> >>>
> >>> and post the results?  This helps us sort out which of the plethora of
> >>> IHC7 cards you have.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Hi Rick,
> >>
> >>
> >> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
> >> Codec: Conexant CX20549 (Venice)
> >>
> >> I hope this helps?
> >>
> >
> > Well, according to that, it's only seeing the modem part of your
> > sound card.  It's not seeing the audio bit (and I should have caught
> > that from your lspci output).
> >
> > So, something is very weird.  I think F8 uses alsa 1.0.15 and it should
> > detect the chipset.  The on-board sound is enabled in the BIOS, right?
> >
> Hi Rick,
>
> The laptop model is actually a P105-S6147, not a P107-S6147 as my
> subject line is erroneously stating. I had recently done a BIOS update
> to BIOS version 4.00 for this machine. When I looked in the BIOS
> options, I couldn't find one for enabling on-board sound. And I can't
> remember whether I tested the audio under Windows Vista before, or
> after, I did the BIOS update. I think it was before.
>
> Also, I'm fairly certain there is only one keyboard shortcut for the
> audio, Fn-and a little graphic for speakers, which seems to mute the
> "Master" control or turn it back on. I'll double-check the
> documentation. Pulseaudio is still complaining that it can't find the
> "Capture" control.
>
> Could I have made a mess of the audio with the BIOS update? Perhaps I
> should backgrade the BIOS.
>
> Bob
>
>
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