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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Sound issues - Alsa not working on X60s anymore

Now I have setup Archlinux on my Thinkpad X60s some time ago, and as far as I remember the sound was working back then (be it in October, November).
In the meantime I wasn't using the speakers anymore so I can't exactly say at what time the sound stopped to work.

What I basically tried was following the Wiki.
I would be tempted to say that everything looks pretty alright...

Alsamixer is unmuted and the volume levels are high.

These are my loaded modules (normally snd_intel8x0 would not be in there, but I simply loaded it to see what happens):

[user@scimitar ~]$ lsmod | grep '^snd'
snd_intel8x0           28700  0 
snd_ac97_codec         94756  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_oss            29184  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46800  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6924  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel         271772  3 
snd_pcm_oss            38432  0 
snd_pcm                68996  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19332  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8072  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          14464  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    44388  16 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

These are my devices:

[user@scimitar ~]$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2007-12-23 16:39 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-12-23 16:39 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-12-23 16:39 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2007-12-23 16:39 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2007-12-23 16:39 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-12-23 16:39 timer

And this is what happens if I want to play a random sound file:

[user@scimitar Downloads]$ aplay checked.wav 
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:867:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) snd_pcm_hw_params_any failed
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:878:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave
aplay: main:546: audio open error: Invalid argument

Any ideas?

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-06-16 23:03:22)

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Sound issues - Alsa not working on X60s anymore

Which kernel are you running?
See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8948

EDIT: I have X61 and sound is OK with the the kernel from testing.

Last edited by bender02 (2007-12-23 17:09:56)

Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Re: Sound issues - Alsa not working on X60s anymore

The newest Kernel update solved the problem. Perfect.