No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

[dkarlmt]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

Sorry...I am still very new to linux and not familiar with compiling or pretty much anything that you have listed on your page.

Would you be able to give me the step by steps (being as I'm a newbie) for the whole alsa and realtek stuff?

[hangthedj]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

Ok first then, I would reccommend just adding the modprobe.conf.


Hit Alt+F2, when the run dialog comes up type in or copy and paste:

kdesu kate /etc/modprobe.conf

Enter your password, and when kate opens up copy and paste:

options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

save the file, and reboot.
hopefully you will have sound, I'm curious to see if this is an easier option.

[dkarlmt]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

Nope...didn't work. Was I supposed to bypass downloading the Realtek and ALSA drivers?

Also, after editing the modprobe and trying to reboot, KDE closed and I got a bunch of horizontal lines kinda scrambled together and was left with a flashing cursor in the top left corner of the screen for a few minutes and at that point I had to kill the power and reboot.

[Snowhog]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

...a flashing cursor in the top left corner of the screen for a few minutes and at that point I had to kill the power and reboot.

When this happens, alt+F1 should take you to the CLI (command line). From there you can type:

sudo shutdown -r now

[dkarlmt]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

Also, after editing the modprobe my volume dial only controls the volume on a 10% limitation. guess that doesn't matter much since I have no sound anyways, but figured I'd post it and hope it will help shed some light.

Can you do the step by steps for your original idea Hangthedj?

[hangthedj]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

weird, add a line to the modprobe.conf shouldn't have messed with your screen.

i meant to bypass the downloading of the realtek driver and alsa sources.

Ok, first open konsole.

make a directory somewhere and call it sound or something like that.
cd into the directory.
then execute this code.

sudo apt-get install build-essential bzip2

then

wget [url]ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2[/url]
wget [url]http://www.geocities.com/sikofitt/realtek6.tar.gz[/url]
tar -xvfj alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
tar -xvfz realtek6.tar.gz
cp patch_realtek.c ./alsa-driver-1.0.14/pci/hda
cp patch_realtek.c ./alsa-driver-1.0.14/alsa-kernel/pci/hda
cd ./alsa-driver-1.0.14
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-cards=hda-intel
make && sudo make install

at this point you can try

sudo modprobe -r snd-hda-intel && sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

if you have no errors, test your sound, you might have to restart kmix, to get past the 10% volume thing. (I also had that problem the first time i tried to get the sound working).
now make sure your modprobe.conf has the line

options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

If no sound, try rebooting and it should work.
this is what worked for me, and our cards are identical.

[dkarlmt]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

Ok, I am following your instructions and got this far...

When I'm supposed to enter the command "tar -xvfj alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2"

this is the message that I get:

daniel@DansLaptop:~/Sound$ tar -xvfj alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
tar: j: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

weird thing is, if I go into Konqueror in that folder, the file is there and the filename matches exactly.

What should I do?

[hangthedj]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

daniel@DansLaptop:~/Sound$ tar -xvfj alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
tar: j: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Ok take out the j, so it is just -xvf do the same for the next tar command, take out the z.
this is the way it is on my machine too, i wasn't sure how yours was setup, most people enter the command 'j' to filter tar through bunzip2 and the command 'z' filters tar through gunzip. sometimes you need those commands, but most of the time tar figures it out.

[dkarlmt]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

THANK YOU!!!!!

I got sound!!!!

I still have the issue with the 10% thing, but also that doesn't control the sound at all. I think it needs to be configured to control the pcm, but I cannot find that menu to select that. Im gonna keep looking, but if you know where it is, can you post it just in case I don't find it?

Thanks you so much again

[hangthedj]

Re: No Sound on Toshiba Laptop with Intel Sound Card

Excellent, I'm glad to hear it.

If you right click on the kmix icon, and choose select master channel.