Honest Attempt to Try Fedora....No Sound :(

[jmadero]

Hi All,

I started with Fedora years ago and decided to give it another go (after spending the past few years with Suse and Ubuntu). I installed Fedora 11 (after a nightmare attempt with installing from flash....tried everything and nothing worked, both architectures, formatted my thumb drive to ext3, ext4 and fat)...

Anyways, installed from a DVD.

Now my issue is I only have sound in flash, otherwise I can sometimes hear a little static coming out of my speakers but nothing more. I've read around and this seems to be relatively common but....no luck finding a good solution.

Here is my lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

If I can't get sound I'll have to leave Fedora again and head back to Ubuntu....9.10 is pretty solid.


Thanks all

[MikeTbob]

Have a quick look at your modules, you could have the wrong ones, or there could be more than one module loading that could interfere with the other.

lsmod |grep snd

Paste the output back here and we'll go from there. Are you using Pulseaudio and or ALSA?

[jmadero]

snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi 15408 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 68256 1
snd_hda_intel 30504 3
snd_hda_codec 78608 3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_ intel
snd_hwdep 9736 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 88392 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 24224 1 snd_pcm
snd 73016 13 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_ intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7584 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10064 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

honestly not sure, I am using whatever is default for Fedora....in Ubuntu I think it's ALSA with a Pulseaudio front end or something like that....I could be wrong...

[reed9]

Can you post the output of

head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*

[jmadero]

DS:JBLH:OERHFPOUGHS (two days of frustration unleashed).

Here is the situation now....

I needed to tri boot, Ubuntu, Vista and Fedora Core. For the first three attempts I did Ubuntu then Fedora (Vista is just there...hogging up a bunch of space and not being used at all....), so after installing Fedora Grub would come up and only show Fedora and Vista....Ubuntu was strangely missing.

I tried manually altering the grub file several times and I kept getting different errors (sorry I don't remember them)....so I decide "hey Ubuntu has the new Grub so I'll try that second), install Fedora first, then Ubuntu.

SWEET! It shows up...I'm excited but haven't booted into Fedora yet because there is no sound and thus is almost useless for me. I use Ubuntu no problem, Vista boots fine, try Fedora right now to get that output for you....guess what, WON'T BOOT! Fedora starts loading but then goes to a screen saying there is an error (I can reboot and try if the exact error is needed), says I can put in the admin password in init 1 or CNTRL +D for reboot....

I don't get why tri-booting with two linux distros would be so difficult....THIS ENTIRE PROCESS is to test ONE thing...I have a sound card that everyone is saying works out of the box with Fedora and I have yet to get it working in Ubuntu...I was considering the switch if it does work but if I can't even get sound.....GAH!

As you can tell I'm frustrated, any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks

[MikeTbob]

It would help to know the exact error message you get....kinda hard to guess from where I'm sitting.
As for the modules,,,,check see if Ubuntu is loading the same sound modules as Fedora....just to see.

[jmadero]

Module in Ubuntu is

Codec: IDT 92HD73C1X5

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 <==
Codec: Intel G45 DEVCTG

For the error, it's pretty much this:

/dev/sda2 clean #/#, #/# failed

An error occurred during the file system check.

Dropping you to a shell; the system will reload when you leave the shell.

Warning -- SELinux is active

Disabling security enforcement for system recovery

the # are file numbers, just didn't want to copy them down

/dev/sda2 is my windows partition, boots just fine, just verified that.....I don't even know why that would be a problem in Fedora....

[MikeTbob]

It sounds like a Windows related problem, perhaps a good disk check within Windows will clear this up. If you are sure this is a Windows only partition then you can manually add an entry to your /etc/fstab file and set it to not mount on boot.

[jmadero]

...it's my damn home partition....I think Ubuntu took ownership of the entire partition (can this happen)? I have a separate user for Fedora and Ubuntu, never share the two....dangit

[jmadero]

Here's the outputs for Fedora

lsmod |grep snd
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi 14256 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 63904 1
snd_hda_intel 29000 2
snd_hda_codec 65376 3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_ intel
snd_hwdep 8600 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 79960 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22496 1 snd_pcm
snd 65096 11 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_ intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7024 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9216 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: IDT 92HD73C1X5

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 <==
Codec: Intel G45 DEVCTG

any suggestions would be appreciated, really want to get sound working in FC11