Re: No sound on a ThinkPad T61 w/ a AD1984 sound card

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 14:08:12 -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote:

[ snip: Kyle needed to upgrade ALSA to version 1.0.15 to support his
  Santa Rose chipset. He followed the instructions on this website:
  http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Lenny_on_Thinkpad_T61/#Sound ]

> lsmod | grep snd:
> 
> snd_hda_intel         239160  1

[...]

> cat /proc/asound/version:
> 
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC).
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards:
> 
>  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
>                       HDA Intel at 0xfe020000 irq 21
> 
> cat /dev/sndstat:
> 
> Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.14 emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux finnegan 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686

[...]

> I notice that 'cat /proc/asound/version' is saying that I'm using ALSA
> 1.0.14, while I remember getting the sources for 1.0.15. Maybe this
> has something to do with the problem?

Yes, that should be the root of the problem. AFAICT, you uninstalled the
newer ALSA package again when you ran this command:

apt-get remove --purge  alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

(The instructions on that website are generally very good, but in this
 point they are a bit confusing.)

You can check the status of the new ALSA package with

dpkg -l alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

This command should show you "ii" as the status (the first two
characters in the alsa-modules-* line). My guess is that you will see
"pn" instead.

The .deb package that you built with module-assistant should still be in
/usr/src; just run "ls -l /usr/src/alsa-modules-$(uname -r)*.deb" to
check.

It will probably be sufficient if you reinstall this package with

dpkg -i /usr/src/alsa-modules-$(uname -r)*.deb

and reboot.

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