sadly, i've lost all my sound again

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Frank Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:58:29 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> >  has no one else gone  through this as well?
>
> I just went through this, setting up F8 on a brand new laptop with an Intel
> Audio Controller.
>
> After spending most of a day working on it, the magic combination that worked
> for me was putting this into /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
>
> There are several different "model=" options that you can use, including
> "3stack", "acer", "auto" and so on.  Google will give you some of the others.

weirdly, my sound just returned.  and, no, i didn't reconfigure or
reboot or even tweak any alsa settings.  it's a mystery, but maybe
it's a sign that i should dig into understanding the whole sound
system more thoroughly.

rday

p.s.  beyond the docs at alsa-project.org, is there a more
fedora-centric tutorial on sound?  i just like to collect these
HOWTOs.  thanks.

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