[ltp] No sound on T41

Mark Houlder linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:05:21 +0000


I have gentoo/T41 with sound working under 2.6.5-mm, I'll mail you my 
configs off-list

Colin Bennett wrote:

>--- Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu> wrote:
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>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, I have actually toggled the mute state. By pressing 'm'. Good
>thought though, too bad that's not it. :-(
>
>Also, the sound works fine in WinXP. Argh. So the hardware's fine. 
>
>Does someone have a T41 with working sound that can send me their
>kernel config? And what version of ALSA libs (if you're using ALSA) and
>kernel it's working with?
>
>
>  
>
>>Joel
>>
>>Colin Bennett wrote:
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>>>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
>>    
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>>>OSS and ALSA drivers.
>>>
>>>Everything works great EXCEPT the sound. I cannot get any sound to
>>>      
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>>work
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>>>under linux. The drivers load (snd_intel8x0) and I can use
>>>      
>>>
>>alsamixer to
>>    
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>>>play with the mixer levels, and aplay, xmms, etc. to play stuff,
>>>      
>>>
>>but no
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>>>sound comes out.
>>>
>>>I don't get any errors, and programs seem to think things are
>>>      
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>>working
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>>>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
>>    
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>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>=====
>>>Colin D. Bennett
>>>colin_d_bennett@yahoo.com
>>>      
>>>
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>
>=====
>Colin D. Bennett
>colin_d_bennett@yahoo.com
>
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