On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I recently got my wife to switch to Fedora as she was getting very >> frustrated with Windows on her not so new laptop (Compaq V5000 AMD Turion >> 1.6Ghz w/ Radeon M200 video). >> >> Everything works well except there is no audio. Direct from boot there is >> no >> /proc/asound or /dev/snd directories. lspci does not show any audio >> devices >> so I'm not sure what driver to use. Neither the alsa wiki or google were >> much help. >> >> I tried modprobe snd-intel8x0 since it's really common and the module >> loaded >> and created some entries under /proc/asound but alsamixer still didn't see >> a >> sound card. >> >> She likes F9 overall but has to have working sound. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Richard >> >> >> > This system looks a lot like my R4000. It's got the same video chipset > (Radeon XPress 200M) so my bet is it has the ATIIXP audio chipset as well. > > I have my sound driver built into the kernel on this system (as I now run > Gentoo on it), but I had F9 on it until a couple weeks ago without trouble. > You say lspci doesn't show anything? > > Can we see the output? > Well, as it turns out the audio chipset was just being funky. I shutdown the laptop, took out the battery, waiting a few minutes, and then put it back in, booted up, and viola! lspci showed it as ATI IXP audio. I'm assuming the audio wasn't working when I installed F9 since no audio applet was installed in Gnome so I added it and everything appears to be working properly. Richard
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