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Old 06-08-2008, 09:34 AM   #1
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Question Sound not working on lenovo 3000G 410


Hi,
I just got lenovo 3000G 410 laptop. I installed slackware 12.0 hugesmp.s.
ran alsaconf. The utility detects my card so I save the conf. alsactl store. then alsamixer. Which btw almost always works, but not with my new lap. What else do I need to do for starting sound. New kernel maybe?

here is lspci -vvv

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 384e
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
Region 0: Memory at f8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
Link: Supported Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Port 0
Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
Link: ASPM Disabled CommClk- ExtSynch-
Link: Speed unknown, Width x0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
 
Old 06-08-2008, 10:58 AM   #2
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Found satisfying answer on
http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/200...work-in-gutsy/

I will try it tonight.
If anyone having problem with ich8 chips can ref to it.
Actually you have install the latest stuff.
 
Old 06-08-2008, 11:54 AM   #3
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It should work fine with a newer kernel (though you may have to specify options to the snd-hda-intel module) if that bug is real. It should work fine in Slackware 12.1, but if you don't want to upgrade then you're going to need to compile a new kernel or, alternatively, new ALSA drivers. You could try specifying options to the snd-hda-intel module before going through all that though. You can add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/sound (create it if it doesn't exist -- be sure to delete any other "options" lines also -- there should only be one):
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options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo
I'm using 12.1, which uses alsa 1.0.15 and the 2.6.24.5 kernel, so I don't know which options you can pass to snd-hda-intel in 12.0. However, you can find out by reading /usr/src/linux-2.6.21.5/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. You should be able to just search for snd-hda-intel and it will list all of the options you can pass to it. Googling suggests that your laptop uses an ALC888 card, so you only have to try the options in that section. Change the lenovo in the line above to the option you're trying. If none of them work, you should try compiling a new ALSA version.
 
Old 06-09-2008, 02:04 AM   #4
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Installed latest stable alsa-1.0.16 (drivers, libs, utils, tools etc) from source. The sound is working perfectly well now. One question though, whats the correct procedure to install alsa from source when you already have it (came with slack 12.0)? I just installed it like a fresh alsa install (given on their site) but what you should consider if you have another version installed?
 
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Installed latest stable alsa-1.0.16 (drivers, libs, utils, tools etc) from source. The sound is working perfectly well now.
Good to hear.
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One question though, whats the correct procedure to install alsa from source when you already have it (came with slack 12.0)? I just installed it like a fresh alsa install (given on their site) but what you should consider if you have another version installed?
I would probably uninstall the ALSA packages that came with slackware 12.0 (using removepkg or pkgtool as root) and then install the new ALSA. Well, actually, if it were me, I would create a Slackware package and install it using upgradepkg (I make packages for everything using SlackBuilds), but either way will do.
 
  


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