Fedora 11: no sound with my Dell Latitude E6500 [FIXED]

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:27:50PM +0200, wwp wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:31:25 -0400 "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:18:52PM +0200, wwp wrote:
> > > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:27:40 +0200 wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I can't hear any sound on my Dell Latitude E6500 laptop within an
> > > > up-to-date Fedora 11 (works fine in Windows XP). The pulseaudio look OK
> > > > and metes react to sound playing.
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > For the sake of the archives: after I could test playing sound of my
> > > laptop using the live CD of Fedora 11 (it was OK), I concluded that
> > > something in my sound config was wrong. Right, the model=ref option set
> > > to module snd-hda-intel in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf was wrong, I
> > > removed the line and rebooted. Sound works fine now.
> > 
> > Did you file a bug about this issue?
> 
> No, should I? This alsa.conf line setting was worth having in Fedora 10
> and has been kept while yum-upgrading to F11, but apparently it doesn't
> come by default w/ F11.

Ah, I had misunderstood -- so it was a fix you applied to F-10 that
was no longer necessary in F-11.  Is that right?  If so, no need to
file a bug, you're right.  Thanks for explaining it -- I'm apparently
a little slow on the uptake today. ;-)


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