Toshiba Laptop P100-208

Quicktime2 · 02-19-2009, 09:11 PM

Hey all,

I am new to Linux and I am trying to get my machine to work with it. However, I am struggling to get any sound out of the machine at all and it is starting to be a real pain. The machine uses a sound card provided by Conexant / Intel.

My machine is a Toshiba P100-208 as shown here:

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.c...DUCT_ID=122152

Below is my smolts profile:

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pu...4-533fa0f3fa24

I appreciate any help. I can try to provide any additional information as requested.

Thanks a lot,

- Calvin

camorri · 02-21-2009, 06:18 AM

From what you have posted, it appears this is the sound module you need to load.

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...dule-hda-intel

If you have a look at that link, the module is supplied with most distros. There are instructions on how to load it.

If you have any problems, please supply some more information.

Distro and release you are running.

Open a console and run '/sbin/lsmod | grep snd' and post the results. This will show the sound modules loaded.

If you have not already do so, open a mixer, and make sure you are not muted. Turn up the volume.
Try playing a .wav file, try 'alpay some.wav' Usually there is a directory with various .wav files used for system sounds. These do not require any codecs. Some distros come without proprietary codecs installed so you get silence on .mp3 files.

Hopw this helps.

Quicktime2 · 02-21-2009, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Distro and release you are running.

I am running Fedora 10, the latest for i386. From terminal:

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Linux version 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 (mockbuild@x86-5.fedora.phx.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 23:58:12 EST 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

If you have not already do so, open a mixer, and make sure you are not muted. Turn up the volume.
Try playing a .wav file, try 'alpay some.wav' Usually there is a directory with various .wav files used for system sounds. These do not require any codecs. Some distros come without proprietary codecs installed so you get silence on .mp3 files.

Hope this helps.

I tried this first, installed VLC and tried to open MP3's, WAVs etc with the default players, no sound though. The default, I think it's called 'Movie Player' even downloaded and installed codecs for me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Open a console and run '/sbin/lsmod | grep snd' and post the results. This will show the sound modules loaded.

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[CHartwell@Chartwell ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd 
snd_hda_intel         353684  3  
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0  
snd_seq_oss            30364  0  
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss 
snd_seq                48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event 
snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq 
snd_pcm_oss            42496  0  
snd_mixer_oss          16896  1 snd_pcm_oss 
snd_pcm                65924  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss 
snd_timer              22024  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm 
snd_page_alloc         11016  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm 
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel 
snd                    50616  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep 
soundcore               9416  1 snd 
[CHartwell@Chartwell ~]$

camorri · 02-21-2009, 10:21 AM

Some thoughts...

You have what appears to have the correct modules loaded. For most problems, this is all that is required. I have similar
hardware. I compared things, and they look the same.

I don't use Fedora, so I don't know if Pulse Audio is included as the default sound server. If it is loaded, have you tried
stopping the daemon and trying the sound? I'm running Mandriva, now 2009, on Spring 2008.1 Pulse Audio killed my sound. I used
Arts ( and I know it is not perfect ) until I upgraded to 2009. Pulse on 2009 is now working.

I'm going to have a look around to see if I can find any issues with this driver, hardware combination. I have seen some threads
where the user had to load the driver with specific options to get things going.