No sound with ALSA even when unmuted on ThinkPad X22

pls · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 10

Well, can't find exactly this issue anywhere in the forums, or in Google, though I've tried bits and pieces that looked like they might be applicable. Any help would be appreciated.

I've got a fresh build of Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad X22 (intel8x0 sound card, ac97-based). Kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r9, sound support is compiled into the kernel as a module. I've merged alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc2, and configured according to the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide, including running update-modules. alsasound has been added to the boot runlevel.

All the modules seem to be loaded correctly:

acwest · Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:58 pm Post subject: Alsa on Thinkpads

I'm getting exactly the same behaviour on a Thinkpad 600, which is running a CS4327B sound chip, and thus different drivers. The behaviour is identical, though. Everything about the system says that it is playing the sound, except there is nothing audible. All of the mixer programs available claim that the sound should be there. The sound DOES work under Win2K, so the sound card is alive...
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Pozac · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 64 Location: Denmark

Hmm... are you in the audio group?

acwest · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 12:10 am Post subject: audio group

If I wasn't in the audio group, I would be showing a lot more symptoms
than just no sound. There would be a lot various errors, too.
This one has me stumped, quite frankly. I can find no evidence on the computer that it isn't working perfectly.
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acwest · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 2:34 am Post subject: I have mine working now

I don't really know what I did, though. I re-compiled the kernel and re-emerged elsa-driver and alsa-oss, but I've done that before with no effect.
The one thing I did different is I changed the kernel config for sound: CONFIG_SOUND from Y to M. Everything else was already set up as a Module, but this seems to have made the difference.
The only problem I get now is a failure loading modules for snd-card-1 and higher, but seeing as I don't have those, I'm not to concerned...
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bjlockie · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 1186 Location: Canada

acwest · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 5:54 am Post subject:

I'm beginning to suspect that they aren't really errors. It's seems like something is probing for any extra cards and not finding them. It is a little odd, because there is a parameter for the number of cards, which I am setting.
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