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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:21:03
Message-Id: 200912152151.58331.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound by walt
1 On Tuesday 15 December 2009 17:16:33 walt wrote:
2 > On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
3 > > hi,
4 > >
5 > > my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k
6 > >
7 > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
8 > > Controller (rev 03)
9 > > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
10 > > Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
11 > >
12 > > the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
13 > > to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
14 > > system still does not have sound.
15 > >
16 > > what have i missed?
17 >
18 > Did you include any of the CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* options in your
19 > kernel config? I built them all as modules, and I notice that only
20 > one of them actually gets loaded (in my case, the Realtek codec.) so
21 > I'm assuming that only one is needed.
22
23 On my laptop (different card) the sound is always muted unless I increase the
24 volume with e.g. mplayer/alsamixer, or push one of the physical hardware
25 buttons on the laptop that increase/lower the volume. That seems to unmute
26 it. I have to repeat after every reboot.
27 --
28 Regards,
29 Mick

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