[Techtalk] getting sound working

[Katie Bechtold]

The only major feature of my new laptop that I haven't got working
is sound.  I'm hoping you folks can give me some words of wisdom.
The laptop is a Sony VAIO PCG-TR3A.

# lspci | grep Audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4)
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

Fedora's system-config-soundcard tool gives the same output, along
with "Module: snd-intel8x0".  But when I click its 'Play test 
sound' button, I get nothing.  I have checked in 
gnome-volume-control and gnome-alsamixer that the sound isn't 
muted or at unreasonably low levels.

Looking at dmesg output, the only sound-related things I see are:

application sox uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application sox uses obsolete OSS audio interface

#  uname -a
Linux mussel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2.stk16 #1 Mon Aug 9 12:21:20 EDT 2004
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux uname -a

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_mixer_oss          14657  2
snd_intel8x0           30829  4
snd_ac97_codec         58821  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                83785  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              25541  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8393  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                4033  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         7361  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            21733  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6473  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    45477  12
snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7713  3 snd
parport_pc             21249  0
lp                      9133  0
parport                35977  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                20933  0
ds                     12997  2
yenta_socket           15937  0
pcmcia_core            51337  2 ds,yenta_socket
sunrpc                142245  1
ndiswrapper            96612  0
ipt_REJECT              5057  1
ipt_state               1857  2
ip_conntrack           25569  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2369  1
ip_tables              13889  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
sg                     28897  0
microcode               5601  0
dm_mod                 47317  0
sd_mod                 17601  0
usb_storage            58121  0
scsi_mod              105489  3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
uhci_hcd               28505  0
ehci_hcd               27973  0
button                  4825  0
battery                 7117  0
asus_acpi               9177  0
ac                      3533  0
i830                   67781  3
ipv6                  216581  8
ext3                   96937  1
jbd                    66393  1 ext3


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Katie Bechtold         http://katie-and-rob.org/

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