no sound on gateway laptop

[Justin Conover]

On 8/22/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Yeah, you could try the 3kstack first.  This is just what I have to do on
F7.  Before you do anything, you might try your headphones first.  Weird,
but that works for me but external doesn't until I build the latest alsa
from mercurial.
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