Gateway 7330GZ Audio Help

[Brian42211]

Hello, First and Foremost, My Name Is Brian, Here is my problem

I have a Gateway 7330GZ Laptop, And For The life of me I can not get My Audio to work correctly, I have tried Alsa, Yet to no avail, If you need more Information, Please feel free to ask.

Specs
P4 3.06 Ghz HT.
512 MB Ram
80 GB HDd

[mzilikazi]

Hi Brian,

What sound card do you have? Is it intel? Those intel sound cards are a real pain sometimes. If you need help finding out what sound card you have:

lspci

You say you 'tried' alsa. Please tell us what you did exactly. Which alsa packages are installed? I have these:

alsa-base
alsa-tools
alsa-utils

Did you run alsaconf as root? If so, what did it say to you? Post the output of:

cat /proc/asound/cards

[Brian42211]

Sound Card is a Inter 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC'97 Audio Controller.

alsaconf completed completely, Yet no audio.

[Brian42211]

Sound Card is a Inter 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC'97 Audio Controller.

alsaconf completed completely, Yet no audio.

Output of cat /proc/asound/cards


0 [I82801DBICH4 ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with unknown codec at 0xe02ff800, irq 169

[mzilikazi]

Aha! I knew it was one of those wiley Intel cards. What groups are you a part of? As user:

groups

You need to be in the audio group. If you are not get root:

su
adduser $USERNAME audio
adduser $USERNAME cdrom

Of course you should use your actual username instead of $USERNAME. I have also seen it suggested that the i810 kernel driver will work with this sound card. Honestly I'm not entirely certain how to make that happen. You might try:

su
apt-get install alsa-oss

[Brian42211]

Aha! I knew it was one of those wiley Intel cards. What groups are you a part of? As user:

groups

You need to be in the audio group. If you are not get root:

su
adduser $USERNAME audio
adduser $USERNAME cdrom

Of course you should use your actual username instead of $USERNAME. I have also seen it suggested that the i810 kernel driver will work with this sound card. Honestly I'm not entirely certain how to make that happen. You might try:

su
apt-get install alsa-oss

I am already a member of Audio and CD rom, Already have Alsa oss installed.

[Brian42211]

Well, Shoot me, For the record. I just did some exploring, ALL IT WAS! Was something soo simple. So Stupid, So eh.. Unbelievable....

Thank you for all of your help and guidance!

heres what i had to do!

1. Open up the volume control.

2. Go to Edit.

3. Go to Preferences.

4. Scroll down list to Extrenal Amplifier. (check it)

5. Once it is check - close that out.

6. Go back to the volume control panel.

7. You should now see a Switches TAB at top. (select it)

8. Search for the External Amplifier on the list you see.

9. Uncheck the External Amplifier.

10. Now close out and go test your sound.