audio driver not working in fedora15

[barunthapa]

Hello
I just installed Fedora15 and the problem is that I am getting no audio. I can play the video but without sound. My laptop is Dell XPS l501X.
lspci results (for audio devices only)

Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0bea (rev ff)


Thank you.

[oldcpu]

I just installed Fedora15 and the problem is that I am getting no audio. I can play the video but without sound. My laptop is Dell XPS l501X.

I find when using pulse audio that the application 'pavucontrol' is very helpful in setting up one's audio. If not done already, you could install that application, and then use it when trying to play multimedia to tune your application's audio.

What applications have you used to try to play audio ?

Could you provide more information so as to better understand this problem? You can do so by running the diagnostic script alsa-info.sh. In Fedora-15 I think it is located here:
/usr/bin/alsa-info.sh

In some other distributions it is located here:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

and you can even download and run it as follows:
wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
or if that fails do it step by step and download:
wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
then run the script alsa-info.sh (copy and paste this into a terminal:
bash alsa-info.sh

Run that script with your PC connected to the Internet and select the SHARE/UPLOAD option. That will post a diagnostic assessment of your PC's audio configuration to an alsa site and give you the URL/address where it is located. Please post that address here.

But having typed the above, its possible simply using 'pavucontrol' will solve your problem.

[barunthapa]

I used 'totem' to play the files. There is no sound in any other applications as well.

I run the script

bash alsa-info.sh


The URL/address from the alsa website is

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=8e29402ac2bccf8e89746182465b1439b49cf6e2


When I used 'pavucontrol', it showed error stating - "Connection failed: Connection refused".

Thanks.

[oldcpu]

I used 'totem' to play the files. There is no sound in any other applications as well.

I can see the segfault from totem in the dmesg from the diagnostic script:


[ 6448.216298] totem-plugin-vi[18367]: segfault at 8 ip 08058899 sp bfd92420 error 4 in totem-plugin-viewer[8048000 3f000]



The URL/address from the alsa website is
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=8e29402ac2bccf8e89746182465b1439b49cf6e2

When I used 'pavucontrol', it showed error stating - "Connection failed: Connection refused".


I note an ALC665 from the script. According to the alsa website, support for the ALC665 was introduced in version 1.0.23 of alsa, which you have in Fedora 15:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Special:Search?search=ALC665&go=Go

I note a massive number of entries in the dmesg from the diagnostic script, which is not nominal.

Your mixer master volume is down at 69% and if it were me for testing, I would try it at its max levels. But having stated that, I do not think that is the problem.

I believe you should write a bug report on this.