> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, mark <m.roth at 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: And the volume is slid up, I assume. <snip> > I would only consider the question stupid if I had already answered > it, which I did not - thanks. I've made a point, over the years, to try to think of "stupid" questions, when I need to step back, and look at the bigger picture, and see if there's an alternate branch of the fault tree that we've missed. mark