On Tuesday 15 December 2009 17:16:33 walt wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k
> >
> > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> > Controller (rev 03)
> >          Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> >          Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
> >
> > the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> > to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> > system still does not have sound.
> >
> > what have i missed?
> 
> Did you include any of the CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* options in your
> kernel config?  I built them all as modules, and I notice that only
> one of them actually gets loaded (in my case, the Realtek codec.) so
> I'm assuming that only one is needed.

On my laptop (different card) the sound is always muted unless I increase the 
volume with e.g. mplayer/alsamixer, or push one of the physical hardware 
buttons on the laptop that increase/lower the volume.  That seems to unmute 
it.  I have to repeat after every reboot.
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Regards,
Mick