Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > My Thinkpad Z61M has no sound (apart from beep).
> > > >
> > > > I've installed Alsa and running alsaconf brought up the right sound
> > > > device:
> > > >
> > > > Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
> > > > Audio Controller (rev 02)
> > > >
> > > > It tells me everything is installed correctly. I ran alsamixer and set
> > > > everything to the maximum loudness but still I can hear nothing.
> > > >
> > > > What now?
> > >
> > > For a start, can you post the output of
> > >
> > > cat /dev/sndstat
> > >
> >
> >
> > Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
> > Kernel: Linux ithaca 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 24 22:40:22 UTC 2007 i686
> > Config options: 0
> >
> > Installed drivers:
> > Type 10: ALSA emulation
> >
> > Card config:
> > HDA Intel at 0xee400000 irq 66
> >
> > Audio devices:
> > 0: AD198x Analog (DUPLEX)
> >
> > Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> >
> > Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> >
> > Timers:
> > 7: system timer
> >
> > Mixers:
> > 0: Analog Devices AD1981
> >
> > > and
> > >
> > > lsmod | grep snd
> > >
> >
> > snd_hda_intel 17332 0
> > snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel
> > snd_pcm_oss 38368 0
> > snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm 68676 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm
> > snd 47012 6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > soundcore 9248 1 snd
> > snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>
> Hmm, that all seems to be OK as far as I can tell.
>
> I remember a while ago somebody had problems with sound and it turned
> out that they had to mute the headphones output before they would get
> anything on the normal speaker output. I do not recall anymore if that
> was in fact related to an Intel card or not, but it is a quick thing to
> try.
>
> By the way, how did you test the sound, with a basic command like
> "speaker-test" or with some more advanced program?
>
I tried with saytime, realplayer, and connecting to the BBC and using
their player.
I was not familiar with speaker-test; I just ran it and it gives pages
and pages of error, so something is wrong!
I'm even thinking of giving up in despair and trying Ubuntu!
Anthony
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