How to get sound working in F9

GN gnichols at tpg.com.au
Fri Nov 14 01:56:15 UTC 2008


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> GN wrote:
>> Hi Waleed,
>>
>> Sound card is Intel Corp 82801H (ICH Family) HD Audio Controller (Rev 03)
>>
>> /usr/bin/alsamixer gives 'No mixer elems found'.
>>
>> Also, clicking on the volume contrtol gives the following:
>>
>> The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control.
>> This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins
>> installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.
>>
>> You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the
>> speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu.
>>
> I am not sure about the 82801H, but the 82801G can have problems if
> yours is not one of the ones that ALSA know the configuration of.
> You then need to specify a model in modprobe.conf to let the driver
> know what configuration to use. (The chip can be configured in many
> different ways, depending on how the manufacturer wants to use it.)
> 
> To make things more interesting, the model that mostly works in one
> version of ALSA may not work in the next one. For example, this one
> used to work on my Toshibs A105-S4004:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel index=0 single_cmd=1 model=ref
> 
> In a later version, I had to use:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto
> 
> I still have to find the correct line for the current version when I
> have the spare time to do it.
> 
> Mikkel
> 
Hi again Mikkel,

I have no idea what I did but the attached error popped up on the 
screen. Do you know what /dev/dsp is?

Ta,

GN
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