82801H (ICH8 Family) NO sound

[stan]

Justin Conover wrote:
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> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:57 PM, stan <goedigi89__e at cox.net 
> <mailto:goedigi89__e at cox.net>> wrote:
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>     Justin Conover wrote:
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>         I've struggled with this since i"ve had this laptop.  Fedora
>         7/8 I was able to build the alsa-driver from mercurial
>         repository and it worked.  So far I haven't been able to do
>         that in Fedora 9.
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>         If I file a bug, what does it fall under, kernel, pulseaudio
>         or something else.
>
>     Would you download and run the script at this location
>     http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh
>     and then post back the link so that people can see your sound
>     setup?  The script scans your machine and extracts out things
>     relevant for diagnosis and puts them on a website.  It gives you a
>     link to the information that you can post here.
>
>     It will help determine where the problem is.  I've been able to
>     compile the latest HG drivers and library on Fedora 9 and they run
>     without a problem though I don't have an ICH8 card.  But there
>     might be something specific to your setup besides the card.
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> http://pastebin.ca/1027335
Well the first difference I see is that I am running i386 while you are 
running x64.

The second is that your alsa components are very different.

   1. Driver version:     1.0.16rc2
   2. Library version:    
   3. Utilities version:  1.0.16

On my system, I have all three of these as 1.0.16.  1.0.16rc3 is 
actually earlier than 1.0.16, you should try to get to 1.0.16.  The HG 
snapshots which are the latest beta version in a tar file are at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/ 
I used the 5/10/2008 version of the library and the 5/20/2008 version of 
the drivers.  They compiled cleanly and have run fine.  There is a 
caveat with the library.  Alsa puts everything into /usr/share/alsa by 
default.  Fedora uses /etc/alsa.  You will have to make sure the cards 
and pci directories in /etc/alsa are the latest for the library to find 
the latest versions for your card.

All of the above being said, your card should be working.  Alsa has 
recognized it and loaded a driver.  It has defined the input and 
output.  The problem is that it is an hda-intel chip.  There are a lot 
of problems with this chip because every eom configures it differently, 
and so it becomes difficult to recognize the correct driver to use.  And 
there seems to be issues with conflict with acp.  Try using different 
parameters passed to the driver (e.g. 3stack, 6stack, etc.) and turning 
off acp in the bios and see if that helps.  The fact that it was working 
in previous versions makes me think that this is probably the case.  The 
latest version of the driver might fix the problem because it has been 
reported and patched already.

When it comes to deeper technical details I'm really over my head.  You 
could try asking on the alsa-devel mailing list.  The developers might 
take the time to answer your questions.  You can use the same pastebin 
as you posted here when you describe your problem.  They might give you 
a patch to use against the driver code.  If it works it will be 
committed to a future release.

Hope that helps.