[ltp] No sound on T41

[Joel Ebel]

Have you actually unmuted?  alsamixer can adjust levels even while 
muted.  There's an M at the top of the bar if it's muted.  Pressing M 
will toggle muting.  If that doesn't fix it, I'd start looking at your 
speakers and connections.

Joel

Colin Bennett wrote:

> I just purchased a ThinkPad T41 (2379DJU), and repartitioned to
> dual-boot Gentoo Linux alongside WinXP. I've tried 2.6.5-rc1-mm1,
> 2.6.4, and 2.4.24 kernels with no success. Also, I've tried both the
> OSS and ALSA drivers.
> 
> Everything works great EXCEPT the sound. I cannot get any sound to work
> under linux. The drivers load (snd_intel8x0) and I can use alsamixer to
> play with the mixer levels, and aplay, xmms, etc. to play stuff, but no
> sound comes out.
> 
> I don't get any errors, and programs seem to think things are working
> okay, but I don't get sound. Also, even turning up the microphone
> volume (yes, I unmuted all the channels! also, I played with the
> obscure things like Aux and External something or another) didn't make
> the microphone pass sound through to the speakers like it normally
> should.
> 
> The mixer has a whole bunch of settings that I don't understand but
> I've tried everything.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> Colin
> 
> 
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> Colin D. Bennett
> colin_d_bennett@yahoo.com
> 
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