Hi Erik, Thanks for the advice. I'm a bit of a novice with Linux. Could you walk me through that? What's knoppix? I can run lsmod from any shell, right? Thanks, Nick On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Nick Scholtes <airchia at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Dell Latitude laptop (can't remember model number off hand), > it's > > about three years old. I have Fedora Core 5 and I can't get the sound to > > work. I have a functioning sound card. Ideas? (Sorry I don't have more > info, > > but I'm at work; laptop's at home) > > Nick - I'd guess FC5 either isn't loading any drivers for the card or > is loading the incorrect drivers. Usually what I do in this case is > boot up a knoppix CD. That will load up the correct drivers in 99% of > the cases in my experience. Then when you verify that sound is working > in knoppix, you can check what drivers it loaded (run lsmod from the > CLI) and make sure FC5 is loading the same ones. > > -Erik > -- Art: bellsoffreedom.cgsociety.org/gallery/ Blog: cognitivealchemy.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080702/948ba40d/attachment.htm