no sound on gateway laptop

[stan]

Robert P. J. Day 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.
>
> rday
>
>   
Hi,

I note from following the alsa-user(alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net) and 
alsa-devel lists (

Alsa-devel at alsa-project.org

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel

) that the intel sound chips are problematic.  They can give back the 
same signature for different pin outs is the way I understand it so the 
driver assignment gets confused.  You might try posting your query there 
to see if it is a known alsa issue rather than a f8t1 issue.
There are quirks assignments that you add to the modprobe in order to 
load the correct driver if this is the issue and it is already resolved 
by alsa.