[ltp] Re: 390 sound: YESSSSS!

[Bert Haskins]

Helen Borrie wrote:

> Thanks to Bert Haskins and others, I now have full glorious sound on 
> my TP390E.
>
> 1.  Breakthrough:  disabled PCI Power Bus management in the BIOS program
>
> 2.  Logged on, opened a console window and su root
>
> 3.  alsaconf
>
> When alsaconf had done its stuff, I started xmms and had sound!   Full 
> and beautiful, yes, on my Logitech Pro stereo headset, though thin and 
> v.quiet on the system's speakers,

You should have plenty of volume.
Try all of the sliders, you may be surprised.
I use headphones or a good external sound system because of quality.
FWIW, the speakers are much better in the 15" 390X than the E boxes but
this is the model that has the LCD cable problem.
.

> even with rheo control and kmixer volumes at full tilt.  No matter - 
> it works and I can dig out some external speakers.
>
> 4.  I also did alsactl store, to save the settings, as recommended by 
> one of you.  Not sure if it has stuck, yet, as it reported it had no 
> soundcard to apply it to.  So probably still a bit to do to make this 
> perfect.
>
> Thanks,
> Helen
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