Fedora Core comes to my rescue!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

My bizzare inhereted Gateway which would not work in X with Knoppix, Debian, or Mandrake jumped to life last night with the use of a 2 CD distro of Fedora Core!

Wheeeeeee Heeeeeee! More linux in the house!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Fedora Core 3 is ssssssssssweeeeeeeeeeeeet! (nt)

[qnr]

2. Sounds good. How old a Gateway? I installed Mandrake, and then

Source Mage GNU/Linux on my wifes Gateway Celeron 400 with no problems.

Edit: Also the AFROS Live CD (which uses Knoppix to boot an Atari Emulator)

http://aranym.sourceforge.net/afros.html

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Not that it is all that old, it is just a weird one...

one of those oh-shit-iMacs-are-selling-like-crazy-so-lets-try-the-same-thing-with PC hardware

I think it is called a Profile.

One piece 14in LCD with CD, PCMCIA slots, FDD, full size HD (what the fuck were they thinking?) and USB plugs.

The price was right... right out of the dumpster.

[qnr]

4. Ah yeah, those sucked, from what I heard. And I know what you

mean about dumpster diving, used to do it all the time (heck, I lived right next door to a Salvation Army thrift store at one point).

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. It works great... only problem I am having now is

the sound card is not working.

It appears to be an integrated sound/video/hd controller of some kind made by Intel.

I am actively investigating.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Run "lspci" as root. Post the command's output here. (nt)

ell ass pee cee eye

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. As requested

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev
02)
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 (rev
09)
01:05.1 Serial controller: Xircom: Unknown device 00d3
01:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
(rev 01)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Try System Settings -> Sound Card Autodetection from the panel menu

I believe it is either under "Applications" or "Actions" in the top panel.

Now I remember mine didn't work either at installation-timne autodetect but worked later when I did the autodetect from the menu. And it's similar:

00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Same result... not found, no sound

Got the same thing on install.

From google I got a tip to run something under KDE, tried that, also no help.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Can you see if it works under Windows?

So we can determine whether it's incompatibility or a hosed soundcard?

In either case, does that machine accept a PCI card? If so, you could buy a soundcard (I suggest a SBLive from Creative) and disable the onboard one in the BIOS setup.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. It did work under windows, but windows went bye bye

and it does not take cards... it is that odd duck machine.

Oh how I love to challange myself.

[qnr]

11. Um, I hesitate to ask, but is this under ALSA? ALSAs mixers

are muted by default. I know you have probably already adjusted the mixer settings, but I bring it up because it is such a common problem.

[SeanQuinn]

12. With that, try running "alsamixer" as non-root.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. No, I do not have alsa installed that I can see

should I grab it?

and I have read about people leaving the mixer muted... no, this is something else.

Still no solution.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. If you're with FC3 you do have it. It's the default sound system.

Maybe you could download and burn the most recent Knoppix? The version I sent you is rather old.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Okay... this is even worse. It started working, but I don't know

why.
Mondo bizzaro.

I was clicking around on things, but not on sound settings when it started making noises on mouse clicks.


Haunted.

[qnr]

16. Your dog got behind the computer and nosed the speaker jack

completely in ;)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. If only it were that simple, I would be honored to have missed it

this is deeper and dark.

[qnr]

18. Ahhh the gateway to hell machine ....

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

19. Verry good one. Gateway to Dell even?

[qnr]

20. ugh... even worse! n/t