No sound on Dell Inspiron B120

Forum thread started by fountainhead on Sun, 2011-01-09 22:13

Hi guys! I'm brand new to this OS and I've got it set up on my Dell Inspiron B120 laptop. Everything's working nicely so far except for the sound. I can play wave sounds but nothing actually comes out of the speakers. Midi music files return a "MediaConverter" error.

Here's what I got from listdev:

device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 2668: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller

When I ask for the audio driver in the terminal it says "hmulti."

Strangely, when I go to Media preferences, HD Audio, Output, it only says "Left Headphones." And yes, I tried plugging in headphones to no avail.

Any idea what's wrong here? Is the built-in driver just not compatible with my integrated audio? Thanks in advance for your help!

‹ Thinking about leave Linux and try Haiku: does it currently fill my needs? New install (A1R1) won't boot without CD help ›

Comments

Re: No sound on Dell Inspiron B120

by thatguy - 2011-01-10 03:27

What you need to do is remove the native sound drivers and install Opensound from terminal.

Installoptionalpackage -a opensound. That should get it working. similar chipset to my laptop which does not play audio with the native driver.

to find the native driver, I wanna says its in

boot/system/add-ons/drivers/media

IIRC.

Re: No sound on Dell Inspiron B120

by fountainhead - 2011-01-15 03:14

That worked. Thanks! At least wave sounds work. Gotta tackle midi music next.