[Mageia-discuss] Sound in Mageia?

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 10:03:30 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 à 21:51 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> > Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 17:07:13 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
> > > I have compared the laptop installation with the desktop installation
> > > (where sound is working) but I can't find any possible reason.
> > > The main point is: pulse does not start because of missing modules -
> > > but because of lacking knowledge I can't find out which modules are
> > > missing and why.
> > 
> > it is odd, because i tried a laptop installation and the sound worked,
> > (allthough i was just too quiet).
> > 
> > i also have the snd_hda_intel driver
> 
> Given the fact that hda is a specification rather than a type of
> hardware ( http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/hdaudio.htm ), it is
> quite unsurprising to have different result with different hardware.

yes, that is true, snd_hda_intel loads another codec module.

except, how would this be related to "sound after install without installing 
pulse-task-audio" because this is only a kernel module difference, afaik?