Description of problem: I have a fresh install of FC5 on my Dell M140 laptop. it seems that the driver is probed correctly, but i cannot get any sound to happen. I have checked the volume and it is all the way up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.10.4 and 0.10.3 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. install FC5 with a snd-hda-intel card 2. login to gnome 3. play a sound Actual results: no sound at all..although the gstreamer test does run without errors, and the gnome-volume-control detects the soundcard and has the volume set at full for master and PCM Expected results: should play a sound Additional info: I attempted to also install the rc3 of alsa libs from the alsa website and i still have no sound.
gstreamer versions are shown, the alsa versions are 1.0.11rc2 and rc3...i wasn't sure where this bug lies as alsa does actually seem to be decting this card correctly so i thought gstreamer initially. not really sure which it as at the moment
driver for hda was improved in the latest drivers (rc4), you can check it, how-to is here: http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/ btw. main part of ALSA is driver (its version is in /proc/asound/version) and FC5 kernel has only 1.0.11rc2 driver...
FYI I followed the instructions in the how-to and updated the drivers with alsa-driver-1.0.11rc4.FC5.tar.bz2, but when i was to update the alsa-lib, and the alsa-utils packages I got the following messages: package alsa-lib-1.0.11-3.rc2.2 (which is newer than alsa-lib-1.0.11-1.rc4.FC5.test) is already installed package alsa-utils-1.0.11-3.rc2 (which is newer than alsa-utils-1.0.11-1.rc4.FC5.test) is already installed So i skipped that staged, and rebooted, and now my sound at least works again... I use: Linux version 2.6.16-1.2069_FC5 (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 21 17:13:02 EST 2006 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) (the kernel from updates-testing)
alsa-lib/utils aren't so important...
sorry about the slow response, i've been away for a while. the fact that the system did find the card, and seem to put in the correct driver made me do the alsa-lib package first, hoping it was just somthing weird. anyway, i've installed the alsa-driver package, and it seems to fix things every time. after a reboot things work the way they should on the 3 systems that i have played with so far. of course this does also say that on 3 systems with intel cards, and audigy's the problem occured..seems to be a recurring event in FC5 so far
okay, closing as upstream.
When is this scheduled to show up on updates-testing?
I can confirm that *just* installing alsa-driver-1.0.11 and rebooting fixed my sounds issues with this card. When can we expect the new alsa version to end up in yum? Alsa 1.0.11 has been released as stable.
alsa-driver is a part of kernel so you can't update it by yum. It's work for kernel guys...
I'm confused... if that's the case then how did installing alsa-driver as described above fix my problem. I didn't make any changes to the kernel? It seems to me that it's a alsa userspace driver issue, not a kernel issue. Unless I'm misunderstanding.
alsa-driver contains new kernel modules (with sound drivers) for your kernel and you can install them from user-space....
Should we create a seperate bug for that then? Just to make sure the Kernel guys are aware that the fix for *this* issue is something they need to do?
Kernel guys aren't going to update alsa-drivers for fedora 5, new drivers will come with shiny new upstream kernel, so it depends on kernel upstream. You can report it there, but I think it's wasting of time...