Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 
> Is there a "common theme" of the error messages? Sometimes the error
> messages produced by "amixer" are more helpful.
> 

no error messages.

> Another basic thing to check is if the device nodes are there and have
> the proper permissions and ownerships:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/{mixer,dsp,sequencer*}
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-01-28 00:21 /dev/dsp
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2007-01-28 00:21 /dev/mixer
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 2007-01-28 00:21 /dev/sequencer
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 2007-01-28 00:21 /dev/sequencer2
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/snd
> total 0
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2007-01-28 00:21 controlC0
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-01-28 00:21 pcmC0D0c
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-01-28 00:21 pcmC0D0p
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2007-01-28 00:21 seq
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-01-28 00:21 timer
> 
> The output of dmesg right after boot might contain some helpful info;
> you could try something like
> 

/dev/sequenceer is not there. Can I fix this? (Not sure about udev.)

> dmesg | egrep -i 'sound|alsa|snd|intel'
> 
> > I'm even thinking of giving up in despair and trying Ubuntu!
> 
> First I would check if booting the newest Knoppix version gives you
> sound.
> 
> -- 

Will do these later.


Thanks for help,

Anthony

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