F9: No audio on Compaq V5000

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:02 AM, David Hláčik <david at hlacik.eu> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I recently got my wife to switch to Fedora as she was getting very
> > frustrated with Windows on her not so new laptop (Compaq V5000 AMD Turion
> > 1.6Ghz w/ Radeon M200 video).
> >
> > Everything works well except there is no audio. Direct from boot there is
> no
> > /proc/asound or /dev/snd directories. lspci does not show any audio
> devices
> > so I'm not sure what driver to use. Neither the alsa wiki or google were
> > much help.
> >
> > I tried modprobe snd-intel8x0 since it's really common and the module
> loaded
> > and created some entries under /proc/asound but alsamixer still didn't
> see a
> > sound card.
> >
> > She likes F9 overall but has to have working sound. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Richard
> >
>
Hello Richard,
>
> please add atrpms repository (http://atrpms.net/install.html)
>
> from atrpms repository install alsa-driver , as dependency it will
> install alsa-kmdl module for your current kernel.
>
> Restart computer, and sound will work just perfect.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>

On the surface it looks like the only differences in the alsa packages is
that atrpms is at version 1.0.17 while Fedora 9 is on 1.0.16. I can't
believe that as old as this laptop is that the driver was just recently
added. Is there some proprietary driver issue with the specific audio
chipset in this laptop?

Richard
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