no sound on gateway laptop

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Justin Conover wrote:

> On 8/22/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >   i just finished installing f8-t1 on a gateway laptop, during which
> > the sound test at the end of the install worked fine.  now, though,
> > after the system is up and running, i have no sound whatever.
> >
> >   curiously, i have no volume control icon on the panel, and no volume
> > control entry in the drop-down menus.  running "soundcard detection"
> > gives me:
> >
> >   Vendor:  Intel Corporation
> >   Model:   82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
> >   Module:  snd-hda-intel
> >
> >   Device settings
> >    PCM Device   STAC92xx Analog
> >
> > but running the sound test gives me nothing.
> >
> >   running "gnome-volume-control" manually displays only two settings:
> > Playback, Master and PCM.
> >
> >   i'm open to suggestions. thanks.

> This is what I have to do on F7 to get it working
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=160584&page=2&highlight=1420
>
> The last time I booted into rawhide sound worked, but you might try it.
>
> # yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
> # yum install mercurial
> # cd /usr/src
> # mkdir alsa && cd alsa
> # hg clone http://hg-mirror.alsa-project.org/alsa-driver alsa-driver
> # cd alsa-driver
> # hg clone http://hg-mirror.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel alsa-kernel
> # ./hgcompile && make install
> # echo options snd-hda-intel model=3stack > /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> # modprobe snd-hda-intel
> # system-config-sound (test it)
> # reboot (to make sure it sticks, or if the test before didn't work)

now, i do have the "snd_hda_intel" module currently loaded -- you're
saying i need to update the kernel source tree from the alsa mercurial
repo and rebuild a *newer* one?  just making sure i know what the goal
is here.  (and, yes, i can see that i would have to load that module
with the "model=3kstack" parameter as well -- i'm assuming i can do
that manually first as a test, no?)

rday

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