Sound Driver

[melkor12]

Hi,
I have a Fujistu-Siemens Amilo Pro 2045 laptop.
It has noth ubuntu and windows on it.
However, ubuntu doesn't see my sound card!
Anyone know where I can find drivers?

[spencerf]

you should use ALSA and your driver should be easy to find here. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

You should be able to enable ALSA in your kernel and your soundcard then make sure you unmute your cards and everything should work I'm assuming you have a 2.6 kernel if you have 2.4 I think ALSA should still work but I also think that OSS was standard for that kernel. Not sure though I've only worked with 2.6 kernels.

You can find out your soundcard by using this command:

lspci --as root

if that command doesn't work you need the pciutils package which can be found here. http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/...shtml#pciutils

its the second one down on the list

[Gnux]

You can find out your soundcard by using this command:

lspci --as root

Just to avoid the painful reading of all the output:

lspci -v | grep audio

normally u got thx to this command only the multimedia audio controller

[farslayer]

Didn't locat ethe exact model on the Linux-for-laptops site but the 2045 is there. odds are pretty good they use the sme sound card. maybe this will help.

http://sq5bpm.sp5zcc.waw.pl/v2040.php

November 17th, 2005 - SebastianR sent me a patch to test, solving the soundcard issue. Sebastian writes:
(...)Last week I bought an Amilo Pro V2040. When I installed Linux, I could not get sound to work either. I debugged this a little, and my conclusion is that the sound chip reports that there are two surround channels, but then crashes when Linux tries to actually use them. When I removed that code, it worked for me.(...)

http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~kotuc04/suse/
* Sound [Intel High Definition Audio] - I had to download and unpack the newest ALSA drivers, utilities and libraries (1.0.10) and apply this patch (patch -i hda_codec-diff.txt) in the folder /.../alsa-driver-1.0.10/sound/pci/hda. Then I installed the drivers, utils and libs, rebooted and was greeted by a startup sound! (Many thanks to Lukas Svoboda from the Czech Republic for this idea.)



That site is a great resource for laptop issues..
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/fujitsu.html