On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney(a)ercbroadband.org> 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