Todd Warner wrote:
I have a T60 widescreen laptop with this soundcard:
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 02)
That audio device, though supposedly supported, will not work out of
the box for many distributions I found out after smashing my head
against the wall for some time.
Part of the problem is that it is a chip set that can be configured
several ways. From reading the ALSA list, it looks like the only way
to tell is to do a lookup of the specific machine to know what is
where. If your machine is not listed, you get a limited "default"
setup that usual works.
Well, I got it working and filed a bug because the hack shouldn't
be
necessary:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222606
I thought I would share in case anyone else has had that problem, and
from the looks of it, a lot of folks are running into this. So... this
is what I did:
1. I ensured my box has the latest alsa
2. I added these two lines to /etc/rc.local:
modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
modprobe snd_hda_intel
Reboot and sound should work.
Do you have to do this every time you power up the machine? Did you
try just doing the modprobe commands and trying sound?
Mikkel
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