Comments on: Getting sound working on my Toshiba laptop with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

By: Dallas V

Dallas V — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:48:46 +0000

I had trouble getting sound working with the Intel 82801G HDA controller (rev 01) on my laptop (Compaq Presario C500). I tried adding the lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base but that did not work. I finally got it working by passing “pci=routeirq” to the kernel. Here is a link to the fix. Hope it helps:

http://islandlinux.org/howto/ubuntu-7-10-sound-issue-compaq-presario-c500-laptop-resolved

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:34:27 +0000

Izac, I will get a formal response to you ASAP.

By: Izac Y

Izac Y — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:56:27 +0000

i’m having the same problem that aristotle managed to solve above. i am able to get up to “sudo rmmod snd_hda_intel,” and then it says that the module is in use. what could be causing this? i’m not using any programs that would require sound, and i’ve even tried shutting down all programs in general in order to ensure success. no such luck.

please help!

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:59:01 +0000

@Dalus
Linux works except for sound. It is specific to certain Intel sound cards in certain Toshiba laptops. Glad yours is not one of them. :)

the media player buttons and touchpad stuff is specific to your laptop. It depends on which one you have:

example ubuntuforum post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3470007

I’ll email you this information also and work with you to solve the issue. I’m just posting here to help anyone else. Thanks.

By: Dalus

Dalus — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:50:41 +0000

yea hello..i myself have a toshiba laptop……..linux works fine , currently using ubuntu fiesty
just a few pet peeves i have nothing reallly big , but , just conveniencies i have gotten sed to with windows.

yes so onto the question…..my media buttons (play pause etc) wont work with the media players. any ideas?
and also the scrolling on the corner of my touchpad is disabled or something,
any help would be great thanks

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:16:06 +0000

“…would post HOW they got did it”

What is the post above? I’ve been on the forums and this post doesn’t work for everyone. I thought the command-line commands above in the post qualified as HOW.

By: Snowhog

Snowhog — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:29:59 +0000

Hmm. It would be nice if those of you who say they got this resolved – got their Intel HDA drive to work – would post HOW they did it.

By: Fallen_Demon

Fallen_Demon — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:33:50 +0000

Thanks for this tip, I wasn’t exactly sure how to reload ALSA without rebooting, but after I did the sound works fine

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:59:15 +0000

A friend of mine had to upgrade his BIOS and install the new alsa drivers like mentioned in this post (ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php)

Hope this helps.

By: Aristotel

Aristotel — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:43:30 +0000

Never mind, I got over that part :) Unfortunately the sound still doesn’t work :(