[ltp] Lenovo T60 P 2613 and SUSE linux- sound issues

Jay Dee linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:57:11 -0700


Hi Richard,
Thanks for staying with this! I put in an audio CD and started amarok, it r=
eported, Xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers
I had installed the Gnome-Alsamixer, but it shows no muting of any of the o=
utputs.
I ran the commands you suggested:=20
1. lsof | grep dsp - and nothing happened
I ran the  command: cat /dev/urandom (since I couldn't runt he entire state=
ment) and I got  a lot of garbled text in the command winow but no sound. T=
his stream of garbled stuff was terminated by "ctrl C" ..

Still no sound!

Jay



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> From: rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Lenovo T60 P 2613 and SUSE linux- sound issues
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:17:07 +0100
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> Dear Jay,
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> It looks like you have all the hard stuff already in place - the kernel=20
> modules (drivers) are loaded correctly, and you have a sound-device.
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> Try running gnome-alsamixer, or alsamixergui  (if not installed, then=20
> install them first). Then check that all the volumes are turned up!
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> I know this sounds obvious, but at least on Fedora (FC5), the default=20
> install had all the volumes muted! And some volume control applets don't=
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> show all the features of your sound card.
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> [Possibly, you might have something locking the sound card, but that's=20
> unlikely.]
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> Also, how do you know that your sound isn't working? What are you doing=20
> to test it?
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> If you still have trouble:
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> 1)As root, do:     lsof | grep dsp
>    (do you see anything?)
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> 2)As root, do:
>    cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
>   (do you hear loud noise?).  Stop it with Ctrl-C
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> Richard
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> Jay Dee wrote:
> >=20
> > Richard,
> > It took a while for me to get back to this issue, but here are the resu=
lts of the two CMD actions you asked me to perform:
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> > ~>    lsmod | grep snd
> > snd_pcm_oss            65792  0
> > snd_mixer_oss          34304  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_seq                74400  0
> > snd_seq_device         25616  1 snd_seq
> > snd_hda_intel          36252  2
> > snd_hda_codec         191104  1 snd_hda_intel
> > snd_pcm               116488  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
> > snd_timer              42504  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> > snd                    83112  12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_=
seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > soundcore              27296  1 snd
> > snd_page_alloc         26896  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
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> >=20
> > :~>    ls /dev/dsp
> > /dev/dsp
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> > The sound still does not happen..
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> > Jay
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> > ----------------------------------------
> >> From: rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk
> >> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> >> Subject: Re: [ltp] Lenovo T60 P 2613 and SUSE linux
> >> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:37:26 +0000
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jay Dee wrote:
> >>> Richard,
> >>> thanks for the quick response. I am a newbie to Linux
> >> You're welcome. We were all new once, so do ask if there's anything we=
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> >> can help with.
> >>
> >> , so I went with
> >>> the "supported" distribution - SLED 10.
> >> Seems perfectly reasonable. The reason I suggest testing with the Ubun=
tu=20
> >> liveCD, is that (a)it's an easy test to make. and (b) it fairly well=20
> >> bisects the problem into hardware vs software.
> >>
> >>
> >>   As for the the audio issue I
> >>> wouldn't know how to do the dev/dsp check. But I will look into it no=
w.
> >> Run (as root) the commands:
> >>
> >>    lsmod | grep snd
> >>
> >>    ls /dev/dsp
> >>
> >> and post the output in your reply.
> >>
> >>
> >> Then, run gnome-alsamixer, and see what that does.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> =20
> >>> Jay
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>  > From: rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk
> >>>  > To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad .org
> >>>  > Subject: Re: [ltp] Lenovo T60 P 2613 and SUSE linux
> >>>  > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:18:07 +0000
> >>>  >
> >>>  >
> >>>  >
> >>>  >
> >>>  > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jay Dee wrote:
> >>>  >
> >>>  > > Hi All, I have been lurking here for a few months now and would
> >>>  > > appreciate responses to my plight. I have a T60P 2613 CTO with t=
he=20
> >>> 15 "
> >>>  > > Flexview monitor, purchased November 2006, which I thought was=20
> >>> supported
> >>>  > > for SLED 10 from SUSE. However, I am having problems with the la=
ptop
> >>>  > > freezing on plugging in the power supply jack, or when I try to =
change
> >>>  > > the screen brightness.
> >>>  >
> >>>  > This sounds very much like an ACPI/kernel issue. The easiest way t=
o
> >>>  > diagnose it is to run something like an Ubuntu LiveCD, which has a=
 later
> >>>  > kernel - if you problem goes away, it's definitely a kernel issue =
in
> >>>  > SLED10; else it's perhaps a hardware bug (but this is unlikely).
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Audio continues not to work. My question is
> >>>  > > whether this is a 2613 issue or something more sinister?
> >>>  >
> >>>  > How much troubleshooting have you done? which sound modules have y=
ou
> >>>  > loaded? Does /dev/dsp exist? Could it be something as trivial as o=
ne of
> >>>  > the volume mixers being set to zero?
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Richard
> >>>  >
> >>>  > --
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