I just installed Mandriva 2010 power pack on a hp g61-511wm.i tried to play music and it plays but there is no sound, i tried to configure these sound by navigating to Configure Your Desktop -> Multimedia -> Select Audio Output -> Select "Internal Audio Analog Stereo". Click on Prefer to move it up above the HDMI Audio.but still no sound. on the other partion i have window 7 which plays the sound very well. i installed a vmware workstation where i installed Mandriva 2010 and the sound was very okay. i am wondering what might be the problem.


Any help is greatly appreciated

Try disabling Pulse Audio first. You can do that in MCC after giving the root password. Click on Hardware and Sound configuration. There is a check box to disable Pulse. You should see the correct driver listed in the box above the check box. Some flavour of ALSA is good.

See if that gets it going, if not, post back. Open a konsole and run the command '/sbin/lspci' and paste the results. That will show the sound card you have. The command is without the quotes.

after disabling in mcc the audio this what i found in the '/sbin/lspci'
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 9602
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 970f
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

From what I can find, it appears the driver snd_hda_intel supports your hardware.

This is your hardware - In a console run the command 'lsmod | grep snd' and post the results. I want to see if the module is loaded.

this is what was listed
nd_hda_codec_atihdmi 4528 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 73888 1
snd_hda_intel 31240 1
snd_hda_codec 90608 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 3540 0
snd_seq_oss 36864 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8880 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 65696 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8740 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 51584 0
snd_mixer_oss 19568 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep 9816 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 100248 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 26720 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 79720 13 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mix er_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9920 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11072 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Something strange is going on here. The correct drivers are loaded. Have you brought up a mixer and verified you are not muted and the volume is turned up?

If yes, then do you know your speakers are working? Have you tried a set of ear phones in the ear phone jack?