I need help or advice for 3 issues concerning Gateway MX675 laptop

[Bill Davidson]

Scot Johnson wrote:
> Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> writes:
>>>  My second problem is sound, my laptop comes with
>>> the Intel ICH5 driver.  I have tried various settings with Alsa, no luck
>>> in getting any sound out of the laptop.
> I have a Gateway laptop w/ an Intel sound card.  Muting the "external"
> sound in alsamixer worked for me.  Good luck!

That's a good point. You have to run alsamixer in order to turn on sound 
because everything is muted by default.

Bill