slade17
2007-09-01, 09:59 AM CDT
computer 1: Lenovo T61p laptop. The sound does not work in fedora 7 i386. I haven't tried installing X86_64 yet, but I would assume that it doesn't work either.
here's the output of lspci regarding audio:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
on the ALSA homepage, it looks like the highest supported as of now is ICH7 ( http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Intel ). Does that mean that I have to wait for a driver to come out for this sound card, and then compile it myself (assuming it will take a while to get into the fedora repos)? Is there any other way to get sound working? alsamixergui displays "master" and "PCM" as greyed out. The "speaker" icon above them is grey, and I can't click on it to turn it on.
also, when I get the sound working, it would be nice to be able to control the volume through the three sound keys on the laptop.
computer 2: Sony VAIO desktop. the soundcard is of the Intel HDA ICH6 family. audio works fine, although its always been troublesome. Right at this moment, I'm trying to get audacity to record streaming audio, and that doesn't work all that well. from what I've been told, to do this, you go to view>toolbars>display mixer toolbar (if its not already there) and change the dropdown menu to "wave out" or "stereo mix". Neither of these are there, only Capture:0 and Capture:1. This doesn't concern me too much, since "wave out" and "stereo mix" could be for audacity on windows. however, I cant record anything on either capture 0 or 1, and alsamixergui shows capture:0 and capture:1 as greyed out. Also, under properties I can set "recording" to a number of things, none of which work, but I can't set "playback" to anything. on this computer, audacity has only worked for me if I start it up before starting anything else that will play audio (xmms, rhythmbox, firefox streaming audio, etc)
it doesn't matter to me if I use audacity, it was just the only way I could find to record streaming audio. if anyone has a better program, please suggest it.
here's the output of lspci regarding audio:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
on the ALSA homepage, it looks like the highest supported as of now is ICH7 ( http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Intel ). Does that mean that I have to wait for a driver to come out for this sound card, and then compile it myself (assuming it will take a while to get into the fedora repos)? Is there any other way to get sound working? alsamixergui displays "master" and "PCM" as greyed out. The "speaker" icon above them is grey, and I can't click on it to turn it on.
also, when I get the sound working, it would be nice to be able to control the volume through the three sound keys on the laptop.
computer 2: Sony VAIO desktop. the soundcard is of the Intel HDA ICH6 family. audio works fine, although its always been troublesome. Right at this moment, I'm trying to get audacity to record streaming audio, and that doesn't work all that well. from what I've been told, to do this, you go to view>toolbars>display mixer toolbar (if its not already there) and change the dropdown menu to "wave out" or "stereo mix". Neither of these are there, only Capture:0 and Capture:1. This doesn't concern me too much, since "wave out" and "stereo mix" could be for audacity on windows. however, I cant record anything on either capture 0 or 1, and alsamixergui shows capture:0 and capture:1 as greyed out. Also, under properties I can set "recording" to a number of things, none of which work, but I can't set "playback" to anything. on this computer, audacity has only worked for me if I start it up before starting anything else that will play audio (xmms, rhythmbox, firefox streaming audio, etc)
it doesn't matter to me if I use audacity, it was just the only way I could find to record streaming audio. if anyone has a better program, please suggest it.