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[David Aveiro <daveiro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am also a Fedora fan and I'm using two kernels:

*Nvidia* - (noveau driver) - most recent Fedora kernel from updates
*Intel* - most recent fedora 15 kernel release candidate, available 
here: http://kyle.fedorapeople.org/kernel/

Check my message from 11/18/2010 on the archives with some hints for 
configuration/install and solving resume/suspend problem.

I just updated to the rc5 kernel but I still have the problem of not 
having sound available...

I tried running

alsamixer -c0

And I get the following output:


?????????????????????????????? AlsaMixer v1.0.23 
??????????????????????????????
? Card: HDA Intel                                     F1:  
Help               ?
? Chip: Realtek ALC889                                F2:  System 
information ?
? View: F3: Playback  F4: Capture  F5: All            F6:  Select sound 
card  ?
? Item:                                               Esc: 
Exit               ?
?                                                                             
?
?                This sound device does not have any controls.


Which is strange, the card seems to be detected but cannot be used. In 
Gnome Sound properties no hardware is present.

Any hints?

Kind regards,
David

On 01/05/2011 09:19 PM, Holger Schwenk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Linux on a Vaio VGN-SZXWN since more than three years and I
> really like this machine. Everything works fine (using Fedora Core 12).
>
> I just got a new Vaio, a VPC-Z13 which has i7 M640 CPU, 1920x1080
> display and SSD disks. Unfortunately, I've quite some trouble installing
> Linux on it. I'm used to Fedora and KDE, and I tried FC14. This comes
> with an 2.6.35.6-45 kernel and grub 0.97.
>
> It only installs when I use the vesa X11 driver (version 2.3.0-1) and I
> end up with an ugly 1280x1024 resolution. The Fedora release notes quote
> that this is related to missing eDP support in this kernel. There are
> quite some messages on various lists about this issue, but I've trouble
> to filter out a clear solution (if there is one :-(
> There seems to be a specific solution for Ubuntu
> (http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam/IMPORTANT_README), but if possible
> I'd like to keep Fedora, simply because I'm used to it ;-)
>
> Can you please recommend a version of the kernel, grub, X11 that will
> work with a 1920x1080 resolution (I don't care about the Nvidia
> Graphics) ?
>
> By the way, an update of all the packages resulted in a X11 freeze after
> reboot. Right now, I don't know whether this happens because of newer
> drivers or a different X11 configuration (not vesa anymore). I would
> need to go again though a complete reinstall, but I could of course do
> this if it is useful ;-)
>
> Upgrading the kernel alone seems to be OK (2.6.35.10-74), removing
> "nomodeset" from the kernel params results in a freeze ...
>
> Thanks a lot for your help !
>
> Holger