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.
I ran "yum update" until all updates were completed, rebooted system because the Kernel changed.
The system now works -- all of the following appear to function properly: - USB connections - wireless - ethernet - pointer-stick for the mouse - the display at its "natural" resolution (1920x1200) - An occassional beep does occur, proving that the PC speaker is connected.
However, I when I play any sound or movie file, I get no sound. I know that the PC speaker produces low quality sound, but there should be something.
I have experimented with the "Sound" setup, but none of the options seem to produce good results.
Is there some special driver or option I need?
Any assistance or direction would be appreciated.
David
At Sat, 07 May 2011 08:22:58 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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.
I ran "yum update" until all updates were completed, rebooted system because the Kernel changed.
The system now works -- all of the following appear to function properly:
- USB connections
- wireless
- ethernet
- pointer-stick for the mouse
- the display at its "natural" resolution (1920x1200)
- An occassional beep does occur, proving that the PC speaker is connected.
However, I when I play any sound or movie file, I get no sound. I know that the PC speaker produces low quality sound, but there should be something.
I have experimented with the "Sound" setup, but none of the options seem to produce good results.
Is there some special driver or option I need?
Probably.
Do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' in a terminal window and post the results here. This will list what sort of sound chipset your system has.
You may need to download and install a driver, probably from the Elrepo repositority, much like you did for the wireless.
Any assistance or direction would be appreciated.
David
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
At Sat, 7 May 2011 11:41:25 -0400 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Sat, 07 May 2011 08:22:58 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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.
I ran "yum update" until all updates were completed, rebooted system because the Kernel changed.
The system now works -- all of the following appear to function properly:
- USB connections
- wireless
- ethernet
- pointer-stick for the mouse
- the display at its "natural" resolution (1920x1200)
- An occassional beep does occur, proving that the PC speaker is connected.
However, I when I play any sound or movie file, I get no sound. I know that the PC speaker produces low quality sound, but there should be something.
I have experimented with the "Sound" setup, but none of the options seem to produce good results.
Is there some special driver or option I need?
Probably.
Do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' in a terminal window and post the results here. This will list what sort of sound chipset your system has.
You may need to download and install a driver, probably from the Elrepo repositority, much like you did for the wireless.
Also, it is possible that the sound card/chip is NOT connected to the PC speaker. Most (all?) laptops / notbooks / netbooks / tablets do include speaker(s) connected to the sound card/chip. Most (all?) *desktops* do not -- they require *external* speakers ("sold separately") to be connected.
Since this calls itself a "Mobile Workstation", I am not sure how things are connected. Is "Mobile Workstation" 'fancy' terminology for "laptop" or is it something else? Is this a 'lugable' machine (eg a desktop with a carrying handle and built-in monitor)?
Any assistance or direction would be appreciated.
David
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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).
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.
At Sat, 07 May 2011 12:32:41 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
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
OK, this looks like the same audio chipset I have in my desktop machine -- the *stock* snd-hda-intel driver should work. Also there seems to be *two* audio chipsets (do you have a PCI sound card *in addition* to the motherboard's audio chipset? If so, then it is possible that your movie player to talking to the soundchip that is not connected to any speakers!
It is also worth noting: many laptops have a set of volume and/or mute buttons, either separate from the keyboard proper (my ThinkPad X31 does -- labeled with a speaker with a down arrowhead, an up arrowhead, and a speaker with a slash through it) or layered as 'Function' (Fn) keys on the F* keys (activated by the special Fn key). It is possible that you need to push one of these to enable / unmute / turn up the volume...
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.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 07/05/11 20:32, David wrote:
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)
Hmm, any idea why you have 2 audio controllers?
I am not sure where to go from here.
Next you need to identify the Vendor:Device ID pairing for your device(s) above and then search for a driver that supports them.
If I show you by example, on MY hardware, perhaps you can follow along for yours...
You already did:
# lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
so now take the PCI ID (first part above) and query it for the Vendor:Device ID pairing:
# lspci -n | grep '00:1b.0' 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 02)
and take the Vendor:Device ID pairing (8086:293e in my example) and search for a matching driver supporting that device:
# grep -i 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 293e /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.9.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
which shows me the snd-hda-intel driver present in kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 onwards supports my hardware.
Now do the same for your hardware and show us the results.
On 05/07/11 1:35 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
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)
Hmm, any idea why you have 2 audio controllers?
wild guess says, one is the mainboard chipset audio controller, and the other is HDMI audio on the video card.
At 01:35 PM 5/7/2011, you wrote:
On 07/05/11 20:32, David wrote:
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)
# lspci -n | grep '00:1b.0' 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 02)
and take the Vendor:Device ID pairing (8086:293e in my example) and search for a matching driver supporting that device:
# grep -i 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 293e /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.9.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
which shows me the snd-hda-intel driver present in kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 onwards supports my hardware.
Now do the same for your hardware and show us the results.
I performed the tests as you indicated. Here's what I got...
#lspci -n | grep -i '00:1b,0' 00:1b:0 0403: 8086:3b56 (rev06) #grep '8086' /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i '3b56'
No output from the above
The test on the other device #lspci -n | grep -i '01:00.1' 01:00.1 0403: 10de:0be2 (rev a1) #grep '10de' /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i '0be2'
No output from the above.
(not lookin' good?)
David
At Wed, 11 May 2011 07:31:37 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
At 01:35 PM 5/7/2011, you wrote:
On 07/05/11 20:32, David wrote:
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)
# lspci -n | grep '00:1b.0' 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 02)
and take the Vendor:Device ID pairing (8086:293e in my example) and search for a matching driver supporting that device:
# grep -i 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 293e /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.9.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000293Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
which shows me the snd-hda-intel driver present in kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 onwards supports my hardware.
Now do the same for your hardware and show us the results.
I performed the tests as you indicated. Here's what I got...
#lspci -n | grep -i '00:1b,0' 00:1b:0 0403: 8086:3b56 (rev06) #grep '8086' /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i '3b56'
No output from the above
The test on the other device #lspci -n | grep -i '01:00.1' 01:00.1 0403: 10de:0be2 (rev a1) #grep '10de' /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i '0be2'
Try:
sauron.deepsoft.com% grep -i '10de' /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep bc04sc03 /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.9.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc04sc03i00* snd-hda-intel /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen/modules.alias:alias pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc04sc03i00* snd-hda-intel
It appears that *ALL* nVidia motherboard sound controllers use the same Intel chip. The *device* ID is wildcarded. The 'bc04sc03' selects sound devices as opposed to SATA, Network, etc. controllers. Oh, and the alias files have the letters in uppercase and grep *by default* is case sensitive... sauron.deepsoft.com has a nVidia-chipset motherboard and the snd-hda-intel driver works just fine. sauron.deepsoft.com is a desktop machine and I have a set of external powered speakers jacked into the audio output port.
No output from the above.
(not lookin' good?)
Just needed a more clever set of grep expressions...
It appears that you do have the proper driver for at least one of your sound controllers. The question remains: which one (if either) is connected to the internal speakers...
Question: does this laptop have a headphone/speaker jack? If so, what happens when you plug in a set of speakers or headphones in and play a test sound?
David
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