Vince,

What sound card does your laptop have?

BT





On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 17:36 +0000, Vince O'Neill wrote:

I am a compete novice on linux, but want to check this as a viable alternative, as I work in a school, and we pay thousands to Microsoft!



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I have used a live CD to check Fedora out on a laptop, but cannot get sound to work.



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Can someone point me in the right direction to correct this?



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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Vince O'Neill wrote:


I am a compete novice on linux, but want to check this as a viable
alternative, as I work in a school, and we pay thousands to Microsoft!



Send us your "lscpi -v" and "dmesg" output.

~BAS




I have used a live CD to check Fedora out on a laptop, but cannot get sound
to work.



Can someone point me in the right direction to correct this?



Vince con O'Neill

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:36:34 -0000
"Vince O'Neill" <vince.oneil@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I have used a live CD to check Fedora out on a laptop, but cannot get sound
> to work.

You have run the soundcard detection under the
System->Administration->Soundcard detection menu?

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Vince O'Neill wrote:
I am a compete novice on linux, but want to check this as a viable
alternative, as I work in a school, and we pay thousands to Microsoft!


I have used a live CD to check Fedora out on a laptop, but cannot get
sound to work.


Can someone point me in the right direction to correct this?


While I haven't tried the F8 live CD, this message is coming to you from
a Dell D610 that regularly runs F7, F8 and more recently F9-Alpha with
no problems at all.


The sound should work for you out of the box, I'd try the soundcard
detection as someone else has mentioned, or possibly check to ensure
that the sound output isn't somehow muted by default.


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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:56 +0000, Dave Russell wrote:
> Vince O'Neill wrote:
> > I am a compete novice on linux, but want to check this as a viable
> > alternative, as I work in a school, and we pay thousands to Microsoft!
> >
> > I have used a live CD to check Fedora out on a laptop, but cannot get
> > sound to work.
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction to correct this?
>
> While I haven't tried the F8 live CD, this message is coming to you from
> a Dell D610 that regularly runs F7, F8 and more recently F9-Alpha with
> no problems at all.
>
> The sound should work for you out of the box, I'd try the soundcard
> detection as someone else has mentioned, or possibly check to ensure
> that the sound output isn't somehow muted by default.
>

Also make sure you are booted without any external usb sounds cards
connected, including webcams with usb mics integrated.

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