Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 104620
Sound not supported on i865G chipset
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:39 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030816 Description of problem: The built-in sound hardware with the Intel 865G chipset used in Dell's OptiPlex GX270 machines is not supported with the current kernel. Running redhat-config-soundcard results in a dialog that says ``No soundcards were detected.'' The card can be seen with lspci 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio (rev 02) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-20.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the machine 2. Run redhat-config-soundcard as root Actual Results: The program opened a dialog reading ``No soundcards were detected.'' Expected Results: A sound card should be detected and initialized. Additional info:
wrdieter posted a patch to address this problem to Dell's forums, viewable at <http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=oplex_audio&message.id=3296>
Sound works with kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2049.nptl and redhat-config-soundcard-1.0.8-2 from Rawhide, although redhat-config-soundcard claims that the sound hardware is not supported. (It detects the card, but still gives a warning about not being able to load the kernel module. It does, though, and the sound works fine.)
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