[ltp] No sound after reboot

David linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:29:02 -0600


Not sure I understand Bill. It never works after a reboot or power down. 
I have had it off overnight and when I turn it back on the sound is gone.

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Bill Sheppard wrote:

>David Gillis wrote:
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>>Good morning,   I have a Thinkpad 600e with a brand new, clean install
>>of SuSE 9.3. Here is the output of uname.
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>>2.6.11.4-21.9-default #1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386
>>GNU/Linux
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>>The problem is this. I can use the YaST install product and install my
>>sound and it works well. All is autodetected goes without a hitch. I
>>can also use alsaconf and the soundcard is found and set up and works
>>great as well. I have used alsactl store to save the settings. When I
>>do either of these setup procedures things work beautifully. Now comes
>>the catch. When the computer reboots the sound is gone. I go into the
>>YaST setup for sound and the card is found but shows not configured. I
>>can do the setup again and sound works great until a reboot. The same
>>for alsaconf, works great until a reboot. I have read what seems to be
>>about 100 posts in many forums and googled a lot. I have not found a
>>solution to this anywhere. I have also posted in different forums and
>>received no replies at all. I am hoping some of the guru's on this
>>list can help me.
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>I've found some hardware needs more than a reboot, it needs a full
>power-down (presumably in order to reset certain hardware registers). 
>You might try doing a full (15 second) power-down rather than just a reboot.
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>Bill
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