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On Saturday 12 Aug 2017 20:49:48 Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> I have a Thinkpad T410 where, after I installed Gentoo on it, everything |
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> "just worked (TM)". The sound is via the bog-standard Intel chips on the |
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> mobo and uses the hda_intel drivers. I didn't use the TP for a long time, |
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> just periodically updating Gentoo, but when I eventually did try to use it |
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> the sound was muted. This means I shut down the X server to remove |
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> complications from the desktop and from the console aplay doesn't produce |
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> any sound. Everything looks normal, driver modules loaded, alsamixer shows |
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> the usual output, channels all active. I booted to a windows partition and |
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> the sound works, so the hardware is OK. The very weird thing is if I put |
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> the TP to sleep with acpitool and wake it up again, the sound works for |
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> about 60 seconds and then dies. There is nothing in the message log at all |
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> when this happens. I upgraded the kernel but that didn't help. |
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> This problem has been dragging on for some years and I am contemplating a |
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> complete re-install from scratch. But before I do that does anyone have any |
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> idea what I could try? |
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> TIA |
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> Robin |
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Which device does alsamixer or pulseaudio show as being active? I found on |
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some PCs that HDMI is now set as the default audio device and I had to change |
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the configuration to make analogue sound devices active again. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |