Fedora 7...audio problem - laptop

[andrewalker]

I'm doing whatever I can to fix it, I can't find a solution. It seems like many people did what our friend Lanamor did, but I also tried, and it didn't help. I'm getting disappointed...
Also, in some forums around the internet, there are people not being able to make it work...
I tried to install older versions of the alsa module, also, but before compiling it returned an error...

I think we should post a bug in bugzilla, maybe they can help... I don't see any other solution...

Do you think that, just to listen so some music while the problem persists, i can install another distribution in xen or qemu and it will play correctly?

I'll try, anyway...

[jan1024188]

On bugzilla they cant help us... they saud we have to wait since alsa-project doesnt release support for intel-hda (High Definition Audio)

[andrewalker]

lol, great...

do you think they'll release a fixed version soon? are they at least interested in fixing that or because they don't support they don't care?? strange thing... and said

[MikeTbob]

you could always downgrade, or try another Distro altogether.
I just couldn't handle not having sounds on my machine.

[andrewalker]

yeah man, I am using also Ubuntu, and I can always turn on the radio if I want to listen to anything while on Fedora... but, I like Fedora 7, I don't like Ubuntu, and the other versions aren't as cool as this one I just hope they will solve it quickly

[jan1024188]

Damn ALSA..it just doesnt work..

Is there any other sound driver?

[andrewalker]

There is OSS... but they say it is old and shouldn't be used... But, who knows, maybe it works =D

[Keithj]

Well, I just found this thread. I'm reassured that it's not me!

I installed Fedora 7 on my new(ish) Windows box last week (on a new hard drive bought for the purpose), with the intention in the next few months of dumping Windows and going all-Linux. That idea has been shelved indefinitely!

Fedora 7 works perfectly on my old 800MHz machine, but that's s l o w.
On the new one, I get reams of error messages on boot-up about the Windows hard drive that it can't access (I don't want it to, I never told it to) - but it gets over that after a few minutes and eventually gets to a KDE desk-top (I had to hyphenate that word because it seems to crash the Forums)

But sound there is none. If I plug in a USB headset, it sees that and will work with it, but there's no alsaconf and the sound system on the motherboard doesn't work. There are various modules loaded in modprobe, based around snd_intet8x0 and snd_ac97_codec - but they don't seem to work. The sound system is reported by Windows as being AC97, so who knows.

Anyway, I think I'll abandon Fedora 7 for now. Windows works, even if it has its problems. Fedora doesn't, which is a huge shame.

When I have a spare four weeks with nothing else to do, I'll probably load Slackware - that works superbly on the old machine, but it's a long old job to do all the setting up.

Nothing's ever easy, is it!

[andrewalker]

Oh, that's really a shame...

I took a look at the 2.6.22 Changelog, and search for SB450, my soundcard, and Linus mentioned something he had fixed about it... I tried to compile it with no success. And now I got it installed and the sound isn't fixed yet... tell me more about this USB headset.. I don't think I have one, but it would be a temporary solution for me...

Oh man, don't go back to Windows! If you don't have time to install Slackware for now, use some other easy distribution, like Ubuntu, Freespire, Mepis, even Open Suse =D

I just wish Fedora would work fine...

[MikeTbob]

Mepis and Sabayon have a lot of hardware support, you might want to give them a try, they both have a LiveCD.