Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on IBM Thinkpad T40p

[nigel h. <cav...@ti...>]

Hi Cedric. Nice to hear from you. Probably the best idea will be to post a bug 
report. All the same. Did you try as root on the CLI.
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop  (you should get an "ok" if it stops) then
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils start  (and another "ok" here if it starts)
Also please check that you are a member of the "audio" group . cat /etc/group
If not, as root. usermod -G audio your_user_name.
I'm not sure if root access by su'ing to root on the CLI has the same affect 
as logging in as root to a desktop environment, but am happy to be put right 
on this. I say this because if you su to root to use alsamixer for instance, 
it's only alsamixer that the user has access to, not anything else that may 
be having permissions problems. 
Also I'd suggest checking some files in /dev .
ls -l /dev/audio /dev/dsp /dev/mixer   (the -l is lower case L)
You should see something like this.

djmons@debian:~$ ls -l /dev/audio /dev/dsp /dev/mixer
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 11 Apr 30 15:43 /dev/audio -> /dev/audio0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  9 Apr 30 15:43 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 11 Apr 30 15:43 /dev/mixer -> /dev/mixer0

Also. have you had a windows OS on the laptop, and if so, did the soundcard 
work ok? I just ask this in case there might be a problem with the soundcard. 
Very doubtfull, but you never know, (on ne sais jamais) . Please post back 
with the answers to my questions. I'd like to know . Nigel.










On Tuesday 30 Aug 2005 11:56 am, Cedric Ware wrote:
> 	Hello Nigel,
>
> Sorry for the delay in answering, as this isn't the only problem I'm
> working on.
>
> > for the developers. Please let me know which desktop you are using,
> > (Gnome, KDE).
>
> Fvwm2.  This is only a window manager; I don't use a full desktop
> environment (except sometimes in small bits: I like Galeon for the WWW).
>
> About the rest of your message, thank you for making it very
> straightforward; but if I'm not mistaken, you suspect a permissions
> problem, right?  I didn't quite follow your whole procedure, but would you
> be satisfied with the fact that many of the failed attempts I reported were
> in fact checked by trying "alsaplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav"
> as root on the console, right after reboot, without any GUI nor any process
> running other that system processes?  No artsd, no esound; just syslog,
> postfix, sshd and such?
>
> If so, I will file a bug report through the proper channels, maybe tonight
> or tomorrow.
>
> 					Thank you,
> 					Cedric.