Re: No sound on a ThinkPad T61 w/ a AD1984 sound card
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:21:08 -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I've been unable to get sound working (for more than a short while,
> more on that in a minute) on my ThinkPad T61, which has an Analog
> Devices 1984 (AD1984) sound controller. I'm currently running Debian
> lenny (2.6.22-3-686 kernel, alsa 1.0.15).
>
> When at first the sound didn't work, I followed the instructions at
> http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Lenny_on_Thinkpad_T61/#Sound;
> that is, to run:
>
> apt-get install module-assistant alsa-source
> module-assistant prepare
> module-assistant update
> module-assistant a-i alsa-source
> apt-get remove --purge alsa-modules-$(uname -r)
> invoke-rc.d alsa-utils restart
>
> and then open volume control, go to the "Switch" tab, untick and
> retick the speaker tab, unmute PCM, and then press the "volume up"
> button on the keyboard a few times (to eliminate the hardware mute, I
> believe). To my delight, this worked. However, when I shut down and
> later rebooted, nothing worked anymore. Redoing all of these steps
> didn't help. Bizarrely, the volume control application no longer even
> has the "Switch" tab, so I can't follow part of the steps anymore.
> I've googled around, but haven't come across anything that looked like
> it could resolve my problem. In some desperation I tried reinstalling
> lenny, and even then when I followed the above steps nothing worked.
> Any thoughts?
Please post the output of the following commands:
lsmod | grep snd
cat /proc/asound/{version,cards}
cat /dev/sndstat
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