Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600

[ThomasK]

The onboard sound is not working. This is very surprising because i have used TH 7.2 before and with the old OSS my onboard sound could be used. Additionally i was able to use my additional Roland UA-30 usb audio interface. But with the FC2 2.6.5-1.358 the whole sound thing is an real pain in the a..

With FC2 the onboard sound system is listed by 'lspci' as '00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 03)'. The '/etc/sysconfig/hwconf' shows:

class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: snd-intel8x0
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 2445
subVendorId: 1179
subDeviceId: 0001
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 0
pcidev: 1f
pcifn: 5

Surprisingly the Toshiba hardware description refer the onboard audio as an 'Yamaha AC-XG'...

Does i need any special kernel parameters? A device driver? Any other ideas/hints/URLs?

Thank you in advance,
thomas

[imdeemvp]

is common now that intel sound chips are not working in fc2.......i honestly recommend a pci sound card such a creative lab sound blaster!

[JonR]

is common now that intel sound chips are not working in fc2...

yeah! I found that... Does anybody know if and when a fix might be coming for this?

[seph]

wow..taht's strange...my intel audio works fine on my Toshiba Satellite P15-S409. I only have one PCM channel...so I can only have one app running that uses PCM sound....eg: xmms and Yahoo Msgr. If xmms is running and a friend logs on to yahoo....after the track finishes in xmms then I hear the sound from yahoo, and then xmms gives me an error about accessing the sound card...is that typical?

[bisscuitt]

Here is a snippet from a Toshiba Sat Pro 4600 where the sound is working in FC2.

/etc/modprobe.conf
---- SNIP ----
alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0
install snd_intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options snd_intel8x0 id=1 index=0
remove snd_intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd_intel8x0
---- SNIP ----

once you have replaced the information in /etc/modprobe.conf

type: (as root)
modprobe -r snd_intel8x0
modprobe snd_intel8x0

Hope this helps...

have fun,
BiSScuiTT

[duncanponting]

Hey BiSScuiTT,

You're a star :). I've spent weeks reading forums telling me that my problem is un-fixable. My problem was that the sound card worked on fedora install and stopped working after I installed nDisWrapper to get my wireless card going. After I finally got that fixed the soundcard stopped working. Your solution worked great. I am still relatively new to fedora and hoped you could explain the fix above?

I'd really like to know what that does as I can only really kind of guess.

Thanks,

Duncan

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[duncanponting]

Oh,

My laptop is a Sony Vaio v505dp. Dual boot XP and Fedora core 2

Thanks

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