Hey all. I have installed openSuse 11.1 on a Lenovo T61 and just cant seem to get the speakers to go very loud at all . I have read oodles of posts to no avail (one post just said that the speakers were poor...).

The driver I am using is a sna-hda-intel and ALSA mixer...

I am not dual booting but I get the same in windows running in VMWare...

Oh and they 'pop' a lot too. Anyone else running openSuse 11.1 desktop on a T61 and ran into this??? Daz

I have had a similar problem in my laptop with the sna-hda-intel and what helped me to fix the problem was:

Edit the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file (I believe it's in the same location in OpenSuSE, if not do a
)

Assuming it's in /etc/modprobe.d:

as root and then add at the end of the file the line:

To find your model:
To me it's Codec: Realtek ALC883

Then you look at your /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver, find the section for your own driver and check what model options you have for lenovo.

(Or else check here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentat...dio-Models.txt)

For the T61, I find the entry:
It worked for me, in a slightly different problem.

This is absolutely crazy to me, but I installed the KDE Desktop and booted into it and boom the speakers started bumping. Haven't heard the 'popping' either... Weird. I may go back into Gnome and see if I can find a difference but it is clearly profound...

Thank you very much for your post. It will help in forensics and identifying the differences.

Cheers mate... Daz

hmmm I don't seem to have the alsa-base.conf... I have a alsa-pulse.conf...

Is this what your base file looks like???

linux-52d9:/etc/modprobe.d # find / -name alsa-base.conf
find: `/home/darren/.gvfs': Permission denied
linux-52d9:/etc/modprobe.d # find / -name 'alsa-*'
find: `/home/darren/.gvfs': Permission denied
/etc/alsa-pulse.conf
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.39-0.2/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/alsa-driver-api.tmpl
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/alsa-utils.mo
/usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-oss
/usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/alsa-lib
/usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-utils
/usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-plugins
/usr/share/doc/packages/lirc/html/alsa-usb.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-plugins-pulse
/usr/share/susehelp/meta/Development/Libraries/alsa-docs.desktop
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
/usr/sbin/alsa-init
linux-52d9:/etc/modprobe.d # cd /etc
linux-52d9:/etc # more alsa-pulse.conf
@hooks [
{
func load
files [
"/etc/asound.conf"
"/etc/asound-pulse.conf"
"~/.asoundrc"
]
errors false
}
]

<confdir:alsa.conf>
linux-52d9:/etc #

No, that's not an alsa.conf

What do you you have in /etc/modprobe.d?
Maybe you have an /etc/modprobe.d/sound instead?

BTW, how is the sound when you
or
?

And, by the way, what's the output of
?