Troublesome purchase [(Un)resolved, closed]

[sling-shot]

That is good then. It is possible that this installation of external unsupported "beta" driver release has mangled your xorg.conf file. At your leisure have a look at that too.

In situations like yours (mine was similar) it is good to have a second partition with a guinea pig PCLinuxOS installation. For all of your testing and configuration, use only that partition and finally when you have verified everything works as it should, then either copy the settings over or do the same procedure on your regular installation too.

As to sound, have you tried the mixer settings as suggested above? What mixer options are available for you?

[bicol_willem]

Well if I open the mixer I see 2 setups. One is the usual set of sliders and one shows only IEC958. It seems to default to the last. I can't figure out how to change that at the moment. Sound DOES work according to tests using phonon. There is is even boot up sound!  But that then is sadly the last sound I will hear till next boot.

[CaptainSarcastic]

These are the instructions I used to get the sound working properly on my Acer Aspire netbook with similar specs.  Maybe they could serve as a starting point:

With linux (alsa as modules)
Add one of these as a line in /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf:
options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire
Recommended. Everything works.
options snd-hda-intel model=acer
Everything works, except the internal microphone and turning off the loudspeaker when a headset is plugged in. For some people the internal microphone may work.
options snd-hda-intel model=auto
Both internal and external microphone does not working

And these:

Initially, audio doesn't work, except for beeping. The problem may be corrected by editing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and replacing every instance of card 0 with card 1.
As of kernel 3.1, the headphone jack is correctly supported.

From the following pages on wiki.archlinux.org:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#With_linux_.28alsa_as_modules.29

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_AO722-BZ454#Audio

For your machine you obviously wouldn't want to add lines referring to Acer, but similar methods might be helpful.

[bicol_willem]

These are the instructions I used to get the sound working properly on my Acer Aspire netbook with similar specs.  Maybe they could serve as a starting point:

With linux (alsa as modules)
Add one of these as a line in /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf:
options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire
Recommended. Everything works.
options snd-hda-intel model=acer
Everything works, except the internal microphone and turning off the loudspeaker when a headset is plugged in. For some people the internal microphone may work.
options snd-hda-intel model=auto
Both internal and external microphone does not working

And these:

Initially, audio doesn't work, except for beeping. The problem may be corrected by editing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and replacing every instance of card 0 with card 1.
As of kernel 3.1, the headphone jack is correctly supported.

From the following pages on wiki.archlinux.org:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#With_linux_.28alsa_as_modules.29

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_AO722-BZ454#Audio

For your machine you obviously wouldn't want to add lines referring to Acer, but similar methods might be helpful.

Here might the fun start:   /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf doesn't exist  
I ran alsaconf ... seems to do its job but, nothing...

[bicol_willem]

OK, went on the path of pulse audio. Installed pulse, rebooted and activated in PCC. Rebooted again. Nada!

What I see is this (unchanged after installing pulse):

[Just17]

If using PulseAudio install pavucontrol, and disable the HDMI output if not used .....  in PulseAudio Volume Control - Configuration tab.

[bicol_willem]

If using PulseAudio install pavucontrol, and disable the HDMI output if not used .....  in PulseAudio Volume Control - Configuration tab.

Tried pavucontrol: connection failed - connection refused.

"Disable the HDMI output"  Where?  (Getting dizzy again from all this trials today)

[Just17]

If using PulseAudio install pavucontrol, and disable the HDMI output if not used .....  in PulseAudio Volume Control - Configuration tab.

Tried pavucontrol: connection failed - connection refused.

"Disable the HDMI output"  Where?  (Getting dizzy again from all this trials today)

That error shows PulseAudio is not installed or functioning properly on your install.

[sling-shot]

Right click on the Volume/Mixer icon in System Tray > Select Master Channel > Now look to the right of "Current mixer" where you will see a pull down menu with choices. What are they?

[bicol_willem]

Right click on the Volume/Mixer icon in System Tray > Select Master Channel > Now look to the right of "Current mixer" where you will see a pull down menu with choices. What are they?

HD-audio generic.  If looking in the dropdown box only this is available.

Under "select the channel representing the master volume" is nothing to be found.

[sling-shot]

I am sorry as my previous post was done without seeing your screenshots properly. (Was accessing the forum on my mobile via Opera Mini via webproxy.)

As they say on TV,
"No further questions, your honour"

[pags]

The ATI Radeon driver may work on that video system. Not all of the features may be supported but should work better than a generic VGA driver. My info says it works on 98xx. As for the audio system, a driver doesn't seem to be available yet. There is an HDMI project working on it. Not really fair to blame ATI, these are fairly new systems and Linux drivers have to be written for them.
 Always best to check Linux hardware compatibility before purchase.
Good luck with the Radeon driver and be patient on the Wrestler driver.
Tim  KD7ADG

Sorry, but I have to disagree with this statement.

It is precisely the fault of a hardware vendor that chooses to not support Linux drivers (either by directly producing them, or providing sufficient specs with adequate lead time to assist other developers) when there is a delay in getting hardware support...
 

[sling-shot]

Try these 2 links :
1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-919528-start-0.html (4th post)
2. https://answers.launchpad.net/*buntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/201425

I hope they are relevant to your configuration.

[bicol_willem]

The ATI Radeon driver may work on that video system. Not all of the features may be supported but should work better than a generic VGA driver. My info says it works on 98xx. As for the audio system, a driver doesn't seem to be available yet. There is an HDMI project working on it. Not really fair to blame ATI, these are fairly new systems and Linux drivers have to be written for them.
 Always best to check Linux hardware compatibility before purchase.
Good luck with the Radeon driver and be patient on the Wrestler driver.
Tim  KD7ADG

Sorry, but I have to disagree with this statement.

It is precisely the fault of a hardware vendor that chooses to not support Linux drivers (either by directly producing them, or providing sufficient specs with adequate lead time to assist other developers) when there is a delay in getting hardware support...
 

How much I agree with this!

[bicol_willem]

Well, for my life I couldn't get sound on this thing and did something rare....
I looked for a alternative distro to try my luck. I choose as first Linux Mint.
Bingo!  Jackpot! All works right and straight out of the box, wow!
Now I know Linux can, I guess, it won't take long before PCLinuxOS will catch up.
Meanwhile this Laptop has to do with what it got. (Saves me sleep!)