A sound problem one more time.- THE SOLUTION AT LAST (PLEASE NOTE)

[Mark C. Allman]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:41 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 15:36, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 08:53 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > > Thirdly. You have model options for snd-hda-intel set as
> > > model=toshiba. From
> > >
> > > > the ALSA-configuration.txt file, that's in the alsa driver tarball,
> > >
> > > I see the
> > >
> > > > following model options, including one for the Dell XPS M1710
> > > > (model=dell-m23). It's worth trying that one, as it seems pretty
> > >
> > > specific.
> > >
> > > > See below for the full list of options. (It's for the 1.0.15 alsa
> > >
> > > driver)
> > >
> > > > STAC9200
> > > >    ref  Reference board
> > > >    dell-d21 Dell (unknown)
> > > >    dell-d22 Dell (unknown)
> > > >    dell-d23 Dell (unknown)
> > > >    dell-m21 Dell Inspiron 630m, Dell Inspiron 640m
> > > >    dell-m22 Dell Latitude D620, Dell Latitude D820
> > > >    dell-m23 Dell XPS M1710, Dell Precision M90
> > > >    dell-m24 Dell Latitude 120L
> > > >    dell-m25 Dell Inspiron E1505n
> > > >    dell-m26 Dell Inspiron 1501
> > > >    dell-m27 Dell Inspiron E1705/9400
> > > >    gateway Gateway laptops with EAPD control
> > > >
> > > > > The OSS packages I have installed:
> > > > >    alsa-oss-libs-1.0.14-3.fc8
> > > > >    nss_compat_ossl-0.9.2-3.fc8
> > > > >    alsa-oss-1.0.14-3.fc8
> > > > >    alsa-plugins-oss-1.0.15-2.fc8
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Mark C. Allman
> > > >
> > > > Over to you, and all the best.
> > > >
> > > > Nigel.
> > >
> > > For pulseaudio:
> > >     The only PulseAudio package I have installed is
> > >     pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8.
> > >
> > > For option values in modprobe:  I tried all ("all") the dell values.
> > > Someone earlier said they used "toshiba" even though their laptop
> > > wasn't
> > > a Toshiba, so I thought I'd try it.  No luck, of course.
> > >
> > > alsamixer:
> > >     [mcallman at prez tmp]$ alsamixer
> > >
> > >     alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such
> > >     file or directory
> >
> > My experience is that alsamixer does not work if pulseaudio is
> > installed.
> > Otherwise I can't find a file: snd-hda-intel
> > that can be edited.
> 
> Hi Aaron. I got rid of pulseaudio on F8, as soon as I found sound was not 
> working. The first thing I normally try is an audio cd. A complaint about 
> some pulseaudio problem got me to ask a quick question to the list, and got 
> me an answer to remove "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio". Sound now worked ok, as per 
> the pre pulseaudio era.
> 
> I must say that I didn't try alsamixer, so don't know if it was available or 
> not.
> 
> Marc has still not verified that the "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" package is not 
> installed, and that is the package that disables pulseaudio, and which is 
> responsible for creating many problems when enabled.
> 
> btw Aaron. I had a reply from the alsa-devel list regarding your snd-cs4236 
> problems. I don't think it's much help, but will post the reply to the thread 
> that was running.
> 
> Nigel.
> 

As I said before:
> > For pulseaudio:
> >     The only PulseAudio package I have installed is
> >     pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8.

This is the only pulseaudio package on my system.  I don't know how else 
to say there isn't anything else installed.  The problem is not pulseaudio, 
unless the uninstall of every other pulseaudio package left something behind.
At this point I'm open to just about any idea! ;=]

-- Mark C. Allman, PMP
-- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
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