On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
MHR wrote:
I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio is not working.
I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.
Any pointers as to what I'm missing?
Really stupid question: did you try running system-config-sound, and making sure that system volume wasn't on mute?
Yes, that was the first place I checked. It shows:
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) Module: snd-hda-intel
The PCM device setting space is blank.
Under the System tab, it shows:
ALSA Driver version: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 ALSA Lib package(s): alsa-lib-1.0.17-1.el5 ALSA Utils package(s): alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.el5
The "latest" audio driver I could find was the 1.40 patched driver, and that didn't work at all (could not even recognize the sound card).
I would only consider the question stupid if I had already answered it, which I did not - thanks.
mhr