Audio on Inspiron 5100

["Kurt A. Bartnik" <kbartnik@niu.edu>]

I've been trying for the past two weeks to get the i810 audio chipset to
work under GNOME in Sid.

I've checked the permissions on the appropriate devices /dev/sound, and
/dev/mixer. I made sure that my user account was in the audio group, and
I've even tried to compile a new kernel (unsuccessfully, I seem to be
having some unrelated problems on that front.) Still no luck.

The pages I've been able to find, describe this as an easy thing to get
working (unlike ACPI, which I also need to address. This laptop gets
HOT! :))

Anyone have any ideas?

Here's what appearing in /var/log/dmesg:

Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 10:28:09 Apr 14 2002

and in /var/log/messages:

Dec 12 21:32:59 callisto kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21,
10:28:09 Apr 14 2002

and, finally in /var/log/boot:

Fri Dec 12 21:32:52 2003: Loading i810_audio module.
Fri Dec 12 21:32:53 2003:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o:
init_module: No such device
Fri Dec 12 21:32:53 2003:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o failedFri
Dec 12 21:32:53 2003:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod
i810_audio failed

Thanks,

Kurt A. Bartnik
kbartnik@niu.edu