Re: FC1 on Sony Vaio (Post) install problem 2

From: Aaron Gaudio (prothonotar_at_tarnation.dyndns.org)
Date: 06/07/04

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    Behold, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> hath decreed:
    > This is the second problem I've got with my new laptop.
    >
    > I can't seem to get sound to work, and when I try it freezes the whole box -
    > the only coarse of action is to hold down the power button until it turns
    > off.

    I have a Sony Vaio R505 series laptop (different from yours no doubt,
    since you apparently have an Nvidia display driver, and mine is an intel
    830M, but it uses the same sound chipset apparently). I originally installed
    using Red Hat 8, then 9. I found that the OSS audio modules would not
    play sound correctly for two reasons- one was that ACPI was not in the
    kernel (I had to use the ACPI patch for 2.4 kernels), but even after this
    the sound was choppy. The solution was to use ALSA instead of OSS (ALSA
    also includes an OSS compatibility module).

    If you are using FC1, then you are probably running a 2.4 kernel with OSS.
    You'll either want to upgrade to FC2 (possibly building your own kernel
    to get around the Nvidia problem), or at least recompile your 2.4 kernel
    to have ACPI enabled (with all parts turned on) and ALSA (snd_intel8x0 module
    plus generic modules and OSS modules). You'll have to change your modules.conf
    to load the ALSA modules instead of OSS.

    Hope this helps. 

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