[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
> nls_iso8859_1 4992 1
> 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
> snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 78596 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> lmpcm_usb 7168 0
> snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
> fglrx 1555468 23
> 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
>