hp pavilion 4900 series laptop

[Jeremy Tan]

Hi Kirk,

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 07:08 -0700, Kirk Glasgow wrote:
> Thanks Scott.
> The funny thing is if I put the laptop in hibernate
> and bring it out of hibernate the sound then begin to
> work. If I restart then the sound refuse to work. The
> chipset that I have uses the intel8x0 module.
> The sound works under Ubuntu linux also, but I prefer
> FC4 I have always used either Slackware (server), or
> Redhat Desktop and I don't like Ubuntu even if the
> sound works. It also works under Suse 9x, so that
> tells me it is a FC4 config issue. What it is I don't
> know.
> Please help one of you Linux Gurus out there!!!
> 

Which version of the kernel are you using in FC4? IIRC, there were
kernel updates to FC4 that uses 2.6.12. This looks a lot like a kernel
issue since Ubuntu uses 2.6.10 and SUSE uses 2.6.11. I'm not entirely
sure though. This is the first thought that came into my mind after
reading your post.

> Anyway the laptop works great except that one sound
> issue.  
> --- "Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:35, Kirk Glasgow wrote:
> > > Has anyone gotten sound to work on an hp pavilion
> > 4900
> > > series. If, please advise how.
> > 
> > I spent some time recently trying to get sound
> > working on my HP Pavilion
> > 8650C.  I determined it would be easier to get a
> > different sound card
> > that get the on board sound chip set working.  I
> > found a few references
> > on the web indicating the same thing.
> > 
> > Not sure your system has the same chip set or not
> > but it may be easier
> > to install a separate sound card than get the on
> > board sound working on
> > these systems.
> > 
> > BTW: other than the sound problem the HP box works
> > great under linux.
> > 
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Jeremy Tan