alsa sound not working [solved] intel8x0 AC97

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I've installed gentoo many times before...but I'm introducing it to a friend and we're having trouble getting sound set up on his laptop. I've tried compiling directly in the kernel, I've tried using kernel modules, but I don't think I tried alsa-drivers. Nevertheless, modules have always been the most attractive option for me and it's always worked.

So after trying for quite some time to get it to work, we decided to reformat and start from the ground up. Once we booted from the liveCD I told him "sound will surely work now...it will confirm that we'd done something wrong." However, I am receiving no sound at all even on live CD (which I thought to use the same kernel/drivers as genkernel and pretty much is all encompassing.)

So if anyone has any ideas on what I can do to get my sound working properly...I would greatly appreciate it. Here is my lspci:

~# lscpi | grep audio

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

Before I was using the intel8x0 driver when compiling as a module...and I believe it was
Device Drivers -> Sound -> ALSA -> PCI -> SiS/Nvidia/Intel/somethingelse AC'97 Audio when I did it in the kernel.
Or something along those lines....

This laptop is a Gateway 7330.

Thanks,
Andrew

Edit: Keep in mind I have a fresh install to work with.


SOLUTION:

Turns out I needed two modules for it to work properly snd-intel8x0 and snd-intel8x0m.
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[PaulBredbury]

First thing to do is follow the wiki article carefully.

It sounds like you might need to specify module parameters, as the article mentions.

[Veldrin]

Have you installed all necesary userspace tools (i.e alsa-lib, alsa-utils and alike)?
And is the soundcard unmuted by alsamixer?

The kernel options seem fine -- no need for kernel params.

cheers
V.

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