[CentOS] No sound on HP 8540w, guidance requested

Wed May 11 14:31:37 UTC 2011
David <David at daku.org>

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