[ltp] Thinkpad T60 - LinuxMint - no sound...

Petter Hansen linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:46:44 +0200


Maybe you just have to right click on the speaker and "open 
volumecontrol" and then go to switches and set a hook on speaker.
That was the only thing i did. X-61 and we have the same card.

Best Regards
Petter Hansen
 
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zed skrev:
> Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> zed wrote:
>>     
>>> I have an IBM Thinkpad T60 on which I run LinuxMint v5.0.  Everything
>>> works except sound.
>>>       
>> That's odd - it's pretty rare for onboard sound not to work.
>>     
>
> Yeah! that's what I thought.  I bought the Thinkpad because of its
> reputation as being very good with Linux.
>  
>   
>> 1. Are you sure it isn't anything trivial? Often the volume is simply
>> turned down - try using a mixer such as gnome-alsamixer, or kmix to fix
>> it. There are several volume controls "in series": the application itself,
>> the  "PCM" control, the "master volume" and the hardware buttons. Any of
>> these can kill the sound. Also, what are you trying to play?
>>     
>
> gnome-alsamixer wasn't installed.  Installed and ran it and found all volume
> controls (other than Mic) were at maximum.
>
> Am trying to play audio CDs and various video files etc on youtube.com.
>
>
>   
>> 2. Try
>>      speaker-test
>>     
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> zed@zed-laptop ~ $ speaker-test  
>
> speaker-test  1.0.15
>
> Playback device is default
> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE 1 channels
> Using 16 octaves of pink noise
> Rate set to 48000HZ (rewuested 48000Hz)
> Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
> Period size range from 1024 to 1024
> Using max buffer size 1024
> Periods = 4
> was set period_size = 1024
> was set buffer_size = 16384
> 0 Front Left
> Time per period = 2.66494
>
> Note: the last two lines just keep repeating themselves until I close the
> terminal window,.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   
>>      hwinfo --sound  		(run as root)
>>     
>
> zed@zed-laptop ~ $  hwinfo --sound  
> 27: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device                                 
>   [Created at pci.296]
>   UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8
>   Unique ID: u1Nb.pC0kUcwQ4PA
>   SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
>   SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
>   Hardware Class: sound
>   Model: "Lenovo 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
>   Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
>   Device: pci 0x27d8 "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
>   SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
>   SubDevice: pci 0x2010 
>   Revision: 0x02
>   Driver: "HDA Intel"
>   Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
>   Memory Range: 0xee400000-0xee403fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
>   IRQ: 21 (17422 events)
>   Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027D8sv000017AAsd00002010bc04sc03i00"
>   Driver Info #0:
>     Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
>     Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
>   Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   
>>      play -n -c1 synth sin %-12 sin %-9 sin %-5 sin %-2
>>     
>
> zed@zed-laptop ~ $  play -n -c1 synth sin %-12 sin %-9 sin %-5 sin %-2
> play soxio: Failed reading '-n': unknown file type 'null'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> zed@zed-laptop ~ $ ~ $ lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
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> nls_cp437               6656  1 
> vfat                   14464  1 
> fat                    54556  1 vfat
> usb_storage            73664  1 
> libusual               19108  1 usb_storage
> af_packet              23812  2 
> rfcomm                 41744  2 
> l2cap                  25728  13 rfcomm
> bluetooth              61156  4 rfcomm,l2cap
> uinput                 10240  1 
> ppdev                  10372  0 
> acpi_cpufreq           10796  2 
> cpufreq_powersave       2688  0 
> cpufreq_userspace       5284  0 
> cpufreq_conservative     8712  0 
> cpufreq_ondemand        9740  1 
> cpufreq_stats           7104  0 
> freq_table              5536  3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
> container               5632  0 
> bay                     6912  0 
> sbs                    15112  0 
> sbshc                   7680  1 sbs
> dock                   11280  1 bay
> iptable_filter          3840  0 
> ip_tables              14820  1 iptable_filter
> x_tables               16132  1 ip_tables
> parport_pc             36260  0 
> lp                     12324  0 
> parport                37832  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
> joydev                 13120  0 
> pcmcia                 40876  0 
> snd_hda_intel         344728  3 
> snd_pcm_oss            42144  0 
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> snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> lmpcm_usb               7168  0 
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> battery                14212  0 
> iwl3945                89844  0 
> snd_seq_dummy           4868  0 
> ac                      6916  0 
> iwlwifi_mac80211      219108  1 iwl3945
> snd_seq_oss            35584  0 
> snd_seq_midi            9376  0 
> cfg80211               15112  1 iwlwifi_mac80211
> snd_rawmidi            25760  1 snd_seq_midi
> psmouse                40336  0 
> yenta_socket           27276  1 
> rsrc_nonstatic         13696  1 yenta_socket
> snd_seq_midi_event      8320  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                54224  6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> video                  19856  0 
> pcmcia_core            40596  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
> output                  4736  1 video
> serio_raw               7940  0 
> irtty_sir               9728  0 
> snd_timer              24836  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device          9612  5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> thinkpad_acpi          51836  0 
> sir_dev                17412  1 irtty_sir
> nsc_ircc               24208  0 
> intel_agp              25492  0 
> iTCO_wdt               13092  0 
> iTCO_vendor_support     4868  1 iTCO_wdt
> button                  9232  0 
> irda                  203068  3 irtty_sir,sir_dev,nsc_ircc
> snd                    56996  17
> snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> nvram                   9992  2 thinkpad_acpi
> agpgart                34760  2 fglrx,intel_agp
> shpchp                 34452  0 
> pci_hotplug            30880  1 shpchp
> crc_ccitt               3072  1 irda
> evdev                  13056  9 
> soundcore               8800  1 snd
> pcspkr                  4224  0 
> ext3                  136712  2 
> jbd                    48404  1 ext3
> mbcache                 9600  1 ext3
> sg                     36880  0 
> sr_mod                 17956  0 
> cdrom                  37408  1 sr_mod
> sd_mod                 30720  6 
> ata_generic             8324  0 
> usbhid                 31872  0 
> hid                    38784  1 usbhid
> pata_acpi               8320  0 
> ata_piix               19588  0 
> ahci                   28420  3 
> libata                159344  4 ata_generic,pata_acpi,ata_piix,ahci
> scsi_mod              151436  5 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
> ehci_hcd               37900  0 
> uhci_hcd               27024  0 
> usbcore               146028  7
> usb_storage,libusual,lmpcm_usb,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
> e1000                 126016  0 
> thermal                16796  0 
> processor              36872  4 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
> fan                     5636  0 
> fbcon                  42912  0 
> tileblit                3456  1 fbcon
> font                    9472  1 fbcon
> bitblit                 6784  1 fbcon
> softcursor              3072  1 bitblit
> fuse                   50580  3 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   
>> (you may need to install the packages, speaker-tes, hwinfo, and sox).
>>
>> If that doesn't work, ask again - but tell us what you get from
>>    hwinfo --sound, and lsmod
>>     
>
> See above
>
>   
>> P.S. You almost certainly want to use ALSA as your sound system.
>> PulseAudio isn't ready yet, and OSS is obsolete.
>>     
>
> Noted.  Willl use ALSA.
>
> Regards from New Zealand on a very wet Saturday evening.
>
> Zed
>