William L. Maltby wrote: >> Thank you both Bill and Alex. > > NP. We're happy to try to help. I have a friend with your model of laptop, I'll see if I can sucker him into letting me futz around with it for a day or two. I'll report back! > I'm thinking now, we have garnered enough new information that an > assault on google might yield results. I suggest you give it a try. > > I decided to investigate proc. I don't know if that might be > fruitful, ... BRB > > Well, all directories or empty files all the way down the tree. No joy > in mudville. Not entirely sure what one would glean from /proc other than that the card is present and drivers are loaded for it. There's lengthy output for my sound device. I won't paste all of it, but everything is located in /proc/asound. My device is also listed under /proc/devices as one would expect. I don't muck in /proc very often other than for testing network setups and obtaining cpu and memory information, so the output for my soundcard means next to nothing to me other than I know the correct driver is loaded. [prata at crane asound]$ ls card0 cards devices modules oss pcm seq timers V8237 version [prata at crane asound]$ pwd && cat modules && cat cards /proc/asound 0 snd_via82xx 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with ALC850 at 0xe800, irq 209 Given that your machine is reporting the device as present (despite not getting any sound) I am under the impression anything you get out of proc would be correct as well. Just to through more confusion on the issue. ^_^ > Last idea, if no one else from here chimes in. Do a google (again) and > try the alsa or other Linux lists. I don't know why I never googled around on the Alsa lists. That was stupid of me. Opensuse has some forums with this problem as well. I didn't see a fix, but I didn't spend too much time looking there. If there is a fix, maybe they have an srpm that could be massaged into working in CentOS? If you do find a solution elsewhere I'd really appreciate a link or something just for my own knowledge down the road. Sincerely, Alex White -- ethericalzen at gmail.com Life is a prison, death is a release