Hi,
the sound card is working! I have added some corrections to the 
instructions below.


On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi,
> We recently had someone with that same sound card send us instructions on how 
> they did it.  I was going to make it into a web page, but haven't had a 
> chance yet.  But here is their instructions.
>
> -------------
> How to (Sound Card)
> For Notebook DELL Inspiron E1505 with Scientific Linux Fermi v4.4
>
> The sound card is Sound Blaster Advanced Audio for XPS M1710 and isrecognized 
> by Linux like:
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition 
> Audio Controller (rev 01)
>
> The Linux version 2.6. x, or newer, use ALSA, in our case the Alsa Version 
> was 1.0.6 and recognize a sound card with the driver snd-azx, but Alsa has 
> registered that this sound card works with snd–hda-intel driver (see 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendorIntel#matrix )
> Then, I need to install a new Alsa version ( most actual and stable).
>
> FIRST: Alsa - driver
> for kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
>
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3424696/com/alsa-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp-1.0.13-56.el4.at.i686.rpm.html
> $ rpm -Uvih alsa-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp-1.0.13-56.el4.at.i686.rpm
>
> reboot the machine, in order to make sure that the installation is good:
>
> $ cat /proc/asound/version
>
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.13.
> Compiled on Oct 22 2006 for kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp (SMP).
> ! So far, Linux does not detect sound card !
>
> SECOND: Alsa-lib
> (here is snd-hda-intel)
> In: http://www.alsa-project.org/ (library 1.0.13)
> $ tar jxvf alsa-lib-1.0.13.tar.bz2
>
$ ./configure
$ make install
> THIRD: Alsa-utils
> In: http://www.alsa-project.org/ (utilities 1.0.13)
> $ tar jxvf alsa-utils-1.0.13.tar.bz2
$ ./configure
$ make install
>
> FOURTH: modules dependencies
> $ depmod -a
> $ modprobe snd-hda-intel
> $ modprobe snd-pcm-oss
> $ modprobe snd-mixer-oss
> $ modprobe snd-seq-oss
>
> FIFTH:
> Finally with the new version of alsa We have “alsaconfig” then:
>
> $ alsaconfig (it appear a new window)
In my case it was:

$ alsaconf
>
> ! In the new window choose driver snd-hda-intel !
>
> (with this we obtain the new configuration parameters integrated 
> automatically in /etc/modprobe.conf)
>
> And the sound card will work !
>
> -------------
>
> Personally I would do the following for the above FIRST step
>
>  yum --enablerepo=atrpms install alsa-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
>
> Since we have atrpm's mirrored as a repository.
>
> Troy
>
> Dmitry Hits wrote:
>> Hi, I am trying to activate the sound card in my laptop. However linux is
>> 
>> still the dark forest to me. I saw the post before where somebody asked
>> similar question and he was asked several questions about his system. Her
>> e
>> are the answer to those questions on my system:
>> 
>> 
>> First here is my pci stuff:
>> 
>> [root@resnet-172 hits]# /sbin/lspci
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945
>> GT
>> Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940
>> GML
>> Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
>> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML
>> Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definit
>> ion
>> Audio Controller (rev 01)
>> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Po
>> rt
>> 1 (rev 01)
>> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Po
>> rt
>> 4 (rev 01)
>> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #
>> 1
>> (rev 01)
>> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #
>> 2
>> (rev 01)
>> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #
>> 3
>> (rev 01)
>> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #
>> 4
>> (rev 01)
>> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
>> Controller (rev 01)
>> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
>> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bri
>> dge
>> (rev 01)
>> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Seria
>> l
>> ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
>> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (r
>> ev 01)
>> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (
>> rev 02)
>> 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0832
>> 03:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
>> 
>> (rev 19)
>> 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
>> 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adap
>> ter
>> (rev 0a)
>> 03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 0
>> 5)
>> 0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Networ
>> k
>> Connection (rev 02)
>> 
>> 
>> Next here is my modprobe.conf, 
>> [root@resnet-172 hits]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>> alias eth0 b44
>> alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-azx
>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>> install snd-azx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-azx && /usr/s
>> bin/alsactl
>> restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> remove snd-azx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
>> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-azx
>> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>> alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>> alias eth1 ipw3945
>> 
>> I don't understand what is going on in there. First it says install snd-a
>> zx
>> and then in the next line remove snd-azx. Can somebody explain me those t
>> wo
>> lines. 
>> Also I don't find modules.conf file. [hits@resnet-172 ~]$ locate 
>> modules.conf
>> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf
>> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/mapping-modules.conf
>> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing
>> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf
>> 
>> Does it mean I need a newer version of modutils. Which repository has it?
>> 
>> Final question I want some recomendation on how to learn more about linux
>> ,
>> so far I am getting bits and pieces from all over, can somebody suggest s
>> ome
>> source where one can get a good foundation in linux. 
>> cheers,
>> 
>> Dmitry Hits.
>
>
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