At 09:28 AM 5/7/2011, you wrote:
On 07/05/11 16:22, David wrote:
Dear Experts
I have been unsuccessful getting the sound to work on a HP Mobile Workstation HP 8540w.
Here's a brief rundown of where I am
I did a clean new install of Centos 5.6 from DVD, using the Gnome Desktop option and no optional modules. I enabled the firewall, but disabled SELINUX.
I installed three files from elrepo to make the wireless adaptor work, and specified the video adaptor using the Gnome -> System -> Preferences -> Display panel.
Hi David,
If you're already familiar with elrepo then I'd suggest you try their updated alsa sound drivers.
yum --enanlerepo=elrepo install kmod-alsa
and reboot.
Also, don't forget to check your sound device isn't muted. The ALSA docs state:
Note: All mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native or OSS mixer program to unmute appropriate channels (for example a mixer from the alsa-utils package).
I got two recommendations: a) Used 'alsamixer' to unmute all channels. The were, as a responder suggested, muted. b) Installed kmod-alsa from elrepo. It produced a bunch of warnings which I ignored. c) I performed lspci | grep -i audio, and got
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06) 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) got
No sound, and the mute button on the function display does nothing -- it's a constant orange color. I am not sure where to go from here.