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: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) Module: snd-hda-intel The PCM device setting space is blank. Under the System tab, it shows: ALSA Driver version: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 ALSA Lib package(s): alsa-lib-1.0.17-1.el5 ALSA Utils package(s): alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.el5 The "latest" audio driver I could find was the 1.40 patched driver, and that didn't work at all (could not even recognize the sound card). I would only consider the question stupid if I had already answered it, which I did not - thanks. mhr