[ltp] sound weirdness with X60s + ubuntu 7.04

Daniel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:27:49 +0200


On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:31:36AM -0400, Justin Mazzola Paluska wrote:
> In this vein, have you made sure that it???s not muted?  There are the
> three audio buttons at the top-left of the keyboard.  Under Linux, if
> you mute it, it will stay muted no matter what you try to do with the
> ALSA mixer.   Pressing the ???volume up??? button a few times seems to
> give ALSA control over the volume again.

Those buttons work on the firmware level, indepently of any drivers.
Pressing once should be enough for unmuting. Another place to look is
alsamixer or equivalent. The ALSA default is to mute all channels.

Daniel
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