Inspiron 1100 and Fedora Core 4

Question

Hi. Apparently, there are no audio drivers for the Sigmatel onboard sound system. I googled this and found that Sigmatel made drivers for Red Hat, but I need to contact my mobo manufacturer for them. http://www.sigmatel.com/corporate/press/072600-redhat.htm So basically, I wanted to know how I could obtain drivers of this nature, but that would be compatible with Fedora Core 4. The silence is deafening right now...

DennisCanada · Answer

I too just loaded Fedora 4, and have sound issue...reply here if someone has this fix.

cmbyerly · Answer

If you have the SigmaTel (I do on my XPS Gen 2) sound chipset in there, you have the volume disabled by default in FC4.  Go to the ALSA mixer control and add the switches for external amplifier and the IEC958 stuff.  Make sure that they are now selected.  That will turn your audio back on.  Then you can modify the volume control with the PCM control.

DennisCanada · Answer

I eventually have it working, thanks.

cmbyerly · Answer

Did you check the PCM volume in the ALSA mixer?

If you have those check make sure that your PCM, Master, Headphones are turned up and not muted. That is about all I know that can help you at this time.

For you video, you are on your own. I use the nVidia video chipsets which work great on FC4.

alxunder · Answer

Dennis,

How did you get it to work? I checked the Amplifier box but sound still doesn't work. I have also problems with the video card.

My kernel version is 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4

The command lspci -v shows:

Sound card: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 3)

Video Card: Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphic Controller (rev 03)

Can you help me? Thanks!

alxunder · Answer

Thanks. The sound is working now. No luck with video card though :-(

DennisCanada · Answer

I altered my xorg.conf file.   I dont remember which website helped me, I suppose I should have wrote it all down :)   You can search for xorg.conf in google and that will give you many links similar to this one: http://www.nesware.net/odin/xorg.php   What I did with experimentation was changed my modes for the resolution and finally  found I needed to set the refresh rates....this allowed my screen to display at 1024x768 and refresh rates.   If this dosnt help you, then leave a note, and I will place the xorg.conf file in a post.   Hope this helps.   I still havent got my DVD to run, having difficult time installing media player.   Dennis

alxunder · Answer

Dennis,

I think we are on the same page, I was also able to change my res. to 1024 x 768 and the screen looks ok. However I am using the default Vesa driver since I haven't been able to install the driver for the Intel 915 video card. I am not able to watch DVDs aa a result!

:-(

DennisCanada · Answer

I havent worked on DVD lately, I tried Mplayer, but I have a package problem as you can read from posts before. From what I have been told, the Totem wont read DVD due to patent business...I dont know about that. Anyhow, if you stumble on the cure, plaease let me know. I will post a cure if I sort it out. For now, I guess that DVD drive is just a regular old CDROM.

Dennis

cmbyerly · Answer

If you have yum installed on FC4 (you usually do by default), you can add the following files to the /etc/yum.repos.d folder. Then you can install a good DVD player called xine.

freshrpms.repo and here is the file contents.

[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMS-Fresh
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Then add the file freshrpms.repo.rpmnew and here is its file contents

# $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
gpgcheck=1

Once you have those in there then go to www.freshrpms.net then you should see a deal for a public key on the main package page for fedora. Issue the commands to install the public keys. It should be something like the following.

rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Then once you have that done, you can install Xine by using the followng commands (as root).

yum install xine
yum install xine-lib
yum install xine-skins

You will be prompted to get some packages that it needs, but once you get the video card working correctly (BTW, you might want to check out intel.com for the Linux Drivers for the 915. I went through something similar for the 845 in my standalone PC.) it should play fine and it support menus and OSD.

alxunder · Answer

Thanks a lot, I already have XIne installed but since I don't have the right video card configured, Xine drops too many frames and ends up freezing.

I checked the Intel site for drivers for the i915 card at : http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm?iid=graphics+915main

but the drivers are for and old kernel (2.4.11 ) and as a rersult I get compilation errors while installing it.

The Intel 82845G uses the same driver as the i915 , Do you have the video card working with right driver in your system? If so with which kernel? I Have 2.6.12

Thanks...

cmbyerly · Answer

It was the 2.4 series when I used the Intel drivers. However, when I went to FC3 it worked fine on that machine with the distro drivers. Check the makefile to see if you modify the compiler flags. I do not really see why your video is not working. You could also try this site as well, http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/

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