[ltp] No sound on T41

[Colin Bennett]

--- Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 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:
> 
> > 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
> > OSS and ALSA drivers.
> > 
> > Everything works great EXCEPT the sound. I cannot get any sound to
> work
> > under linux. The drivers load (snd_intel8x0) and I can use
> alsamixer to
> > play with the mixer levels, and aplay, xmms, etc. to play stuff,
> but no
> > sound comes out.
> > 
> > I don't get any errors, and programs seem to think things are
> working
> > 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
> > 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


=====
Colin D. Bennett
colin_d_bennett@yahoo.com

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