[ltp] Broken sound on Thinkpad A21e.

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:58:33AM -0600, rhubarbpie@poetworld.net wrote:
>  I get no sound from either the command line or X applications. 
> The soundcard is 440MC 810 Chipset AC'97 Audio.  The installed
> module is i810_audio with snd-intel8x0 as alternate.
>  
>  I have little knowledge of sound issues.  Any suggestions?

Compile yourself a fresh, customized kernel.

lspci
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html

..are all your friends. Expect to spend a few hours on reading about
all of the kernel options, and picking out the ones you want. Expect
15 minutes (tops, on modern hardware) to compile the kernel.

Install/configure the new kernel with LILO or grub, depending on what
Mandrake uses, and reboot.

It's always good to keep the previous kernel as a backup to boot
from if you forget something.

Other than that I don't have many good suggestions, I'm more of a
Gentoo person, where they tell you to do all of this right from the
start. :)

Building your own kernel is a great learning experience!


//Peter