On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:51 -0500, Alex White wrote: > hce wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've installed CentOS 5.2 to a laptop Acer 5920 for dual boot, the >> audio works in Window Vista, but does not work in CentOS 5.2. Does >> CentOS 5.2 support following audio chip or not? >> >> Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio >> Controller (rev 03) >> >> Thank you. >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Jim >> > When you say it doesn't work, are you getting an error message > saying that there's no sound device? No. >> Does lspci list your soundcard? If you have a super long list and >> can't locate it easily, you can try (but I can't promise this will >> work for you, it does for me however) lspci | grep audio Please see following lspci information for the audio, seems ok. 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0121 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66 Memory at f0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> > If I recall you're using gnome. You should (but may not) have a > volume icon on your panel. Right click that icon and ensure that the > mute box is not checked. If it's not checked, select "Open Volume > Control" and make sure your volume is turned up. If you still do not > have sound try right clicking the volume speaker icon again and > selecting "Preferences". Make sure that the correct device is selected. All checked, no problem at all. > Be aware that the volume control panel default settings may not show all > the pertinent controls. In that panel you may need to edit preferences > to show such things as PCM control, etc. Some of these may also be muted > and/or set to very low volumes. The Volume Control Preference is set to: HDA Intel (Alsa mixer) PCM Mute is not checked, and the volumes are adjusted to maximum levels. Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim