From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FA051396D0 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB4A91FC074; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qk0-x243.google.com (mail-qk0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 648E41FC03E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qk0-x243.google.com with SMTP id a77so5906836qkb.2 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:40:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=BSIKVoPE0qUiJ62LEkJtwtr4gkl7Nt/xfMdPuwOdaUw=; b=sIXFvnaqSle7IJdtSB2zfeGS8QKZA3SBbYOBsZYRRiYGZrN3VEVZr8FDGWNXuEuz1A VdZDOOYsqxvjx4RzBQXEIrY7A3zdF2S2LEKZsQjSgmu9nyujHntVuOX8eZ/RrSliT/G/ p/z37Wp9iLXjEMiCpkwWJy4tNd9JWq7MIkKgH2fmi+4R+SAjiklzweDotKB6B8e2BxqO +oxPKWZ3/Rqx4Nn2ge68vpGkDj6bKmJTo5Cz3cgggQefxfxebxWFmi3jCGmfIdnsY95M ELdw2PRLYAdy9EbTgerGaFPIOpp/214HBSWpfBBWLc/oON5PKKStU+pApXp7UHktNHGF PBFw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=BSIKVoPE0qUiJ62LEkJtwtr4gkl7Nt/xfMdPuwOdaUw=; b=PVCYbNuq3KIGem6NhGyDZc96EiTomKXp8xIwe70znoi7REYnITFxCgbbLskXyO6L2b dLZWCXw4KTeut2apkvpvaZTDV23dLpojbdoZx/bNjc5+CdqH3FvQBFautOiOuoxEKblo NVyeYX2GU1TopRA8wYNC8Ph2t3VfHAx/POdqqoDUre2quZgW2KNXYR4f3iwcFv9k4y0a cggqg6rFwfJ6CRE3HmfIu4BAaxj7zZfFsN+buIgYbN4LacoOko/Y3BZvT0tzBYs9LRnG OWlv4MOMz2iQzlCGDG5/AoFZ9lheqJzZGXviRXYqZk3rFdykTNd66WrZ1bKr3p/lAgkZ h7wA== X-Gm-Message-State: AHYfb5iX2Sw559CeMhWOSCV9rfPvv+pGmGA4hKzK7m/7q8sw40zuKBGS O6j/jUd1NbdbWCwW9F+RM9aY6FIbOzdUE/8= X-Received: by 10.55.113.67 with SMTP id m64mr25253006qkc.227.1502548810484; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.237.39.39 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:39:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201708122049.48700.robin@binro.org> References: <201708122049.48700.robin@binro.org> From: Alexander Kapshuk Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:39:30 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 679571a7-0740-4195-8265-df43f924ac9b X-Archives-Hash: 8298edd145a7b002303448802b0e0892 On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T410 where, after I installed Gentoo on it, everything > "just worked (TM)". The sound is via the bog-standard Intel chips on the > mobo and uses the hda_intel drivers. I didn't use the TP for a long time, > just periodically updating Gentoo, but when I eventually did try to use it > the sound was muted. This means I shut down the X server to remove > complications from the desktop and from the console aplay doesn't produce > any sound. Everything looks normal, driver modules loaded, alsamixer shows > the usual output, channels all active. I booted to a windows partition and > the sound works, so the hardware is OK. The very weird thing is if I put the > TP to sleep with acpitool and wake it up again, the sound works for about 60 > seconds and then dies. There is nothing in the message log at all when this > happens. I upgraded the kernel but that didn't help. > > > > This problem has been dragging on for some years and I am contemplating a > complete re-install from scratch. But before I do that does anyone have any > idea what I could try? > > > > TIA > > Robin > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Robin Atwood. > > > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > What's the output of these command lines? (1). lspci -vnn | sed '/Audio/,/driver/!d' (2). grep -Ei '^[^#]*(snd|hda)' linux/.config (3). rc-update show | grep alsa (4). grep HDA /var/log/dmesg (5). Postinst message for alsa-utils: pkg_postinst() { if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]]; then elog elog "To take advantage of the init script, and automate the process of" elog "saving and restoring sound-card mixer levels you should" elog "add alsasound to the boot runlevel. You can do this as" elog "root like so:" elog "# rc-update add alsasound boot" ewarn ewarn "The ALSA core should be built into the kernel or loaded through other" ewarn "means. There is no longer any modular auto(un)loading in alsa-utils." fi } (6). Also, if you check out the Gentoo wiki article on how to set up ALSA. See if there's anything you might've overlooked when setting it up: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA