Hmmm... Sound on the Thinkpad T60...

[Rick Bowers]

At 11/20/2006 03:23 PM, you wrote:
>On Monday 20 November 2006 12:24, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > It probably was the mixers. Alsa never works "out of the box". You always
> > have to fire up one of the mixers, i.e., alsamixer, kmix, etc. and turn on
> > channels & raise volumes. I've never bothered to learn what all the
> > acronyms/abreviations mean, so I usually just start turning things on until
> > I get sound. You probably fiddled with a mixer and turned on the right
> > channel without realizing it at the time.
> >
> > Here's a relevant snip from one of the README's:
> >
> >       ALSA drivers initialize hardware mixer levels to zero.  It is usually
> >       desirable to set things up so that the mixer levels for basic sound
> >       output are automatically raised to reasonable levels after 
> the drivers
> >       have completed their initialization.
> >
> >       Currently, alsa-utils accomplishes this by having its initscript's
> >       "start" method restore mixer levels to what they were the last time
> >       they were saved (see below).  The levels are stored in the file
> >       /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.  If either the latter file or the alsactl
> >       program is not available then amixer is used to set mixer levels to
> >       "reasonable" default values.
> >
> >       To set mixer levels to "reasonable" default values from the command
> >       line (i.e., without trying first to restore saved values), run
> >       "/etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset".
> >
>Thanks Mike.  I had messed with the mixers, but I had been doing 
>that from the
>installation with no results.  I don't believe that was the final fix.  Then
>again, without any other known possibilities, I can't say that it *wasn't*
>that either :)

Doesn't hum (hmmmm) generally come from bad ground? :-)


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