got the "Intel 82801G ICH7 Family" sound card to work.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Todd Warner wrote:
> I have a T60 widescreen laptop with this soundcard:
> Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
> Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 
> That audio device, though supposedly supported, will not work out of
> the box for many distributions I found out after smashing my head
> against the wall for some time.
> 
Part of the problem is that it is a chip set that can be configured
several ways. From reading the ALSA list, it looks like the only way
to tell is to do a lookup of the specific machine to know what is
where. If your machine is not listed, you get a limited "default"
setup that usual works.

> Well, I got it working and filed a bug because the hack shouldn't be
> necessary:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222606
> 
> I thought I would share in case anyone else has had that problem, and
> from the looks of it, a lot of folks are running into this. So... this
> is what I did:
> 1. I ensured my box has the latest alsa
> 2. I added these two lines to /etc/rc.local:
> modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
> modprobe snd_hda_intel
> 
> Reboot and sound should work.
> 
Do you have to do this every time you power up the machine? Did you
try just doing the modprobe commands and trying sound?

Mikkel
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