[linux-laptop] cd sound not working on Dell 1200

[Ski Kacoroski]

Hi,

I have tried ubuntu 5.04, 5.10 and Debian stable (sarge).  In all cases, 
the system sounds work and mp3's play fine.  The audio cd plays, but no 
sound comes out.  I run alsaconf and it says everything is ok (finds the 
card as an i810xxx).  According to the bios, the sound card is a 
Sigmatel 9752 (I do not think this is the problem as mp3s play fine).  I 
am in the audio group and have made sure that links to /dev/cdrom are 
set.  It is like I am missing a wire, but I thought that only applied to 
desktops.  System details are:

kiwi:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics 
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller 
(rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface 
Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus 
Controller
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1068 (rev 03)

kiwi:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_intel8x0           33068  0
snd_ac97_codec         59268  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            48168  0
snd_mixer_oss          16640  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                85384  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              23300  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11144  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                4736  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         7296  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            23204  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          7944  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    50660  9 
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9824  1 snd

kiwi:/etc# cat modules
ide-cd
ide-disk
ide-generic
psmouse

kiwi:/dev# ls -l d*
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 3 2005-09-25 14:40 dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      3 2005-09-25 05:52 dvd -> hdb

kiwi:/dev# ls -l cd*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-09-25 14:22 cdrom -> hdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-09-25 05:52 cdrom1 -> hdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-09-25 05:52 cdrw -> hdb


Appreciate any help people can provide me in sorting this out.

cheers,

ski

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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski at comcast.net, 425-681-0092