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

[Cedric W. <ced...@en...>]

	Hi,

> Hi Cedric. Nice to hear from you. Probably the best idea will be to post a bug 

I have now, issue #1381.
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1381

> 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)

For me, it's not "ok" but:
Shutting down ALSA...done.
Setting up ALSA...done.

Do new Debian testing installs display "ok" now?

> 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 am, but as root it shouldn't make a difference.

> I'm not sure if root access by su'ing to root on the CLI has the same affect 

For these tests, I log in directly as root, not as a user then su.

> 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. 

Are you sure you mean su as in the shell command, not a setuid bit on an
executable, or the sudo or super shell command?  With the latter three,
indeed, it's not quite the same.  But with su, I don't see what difference
it should make--especially with "su -" which starts a login shell.

> 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

They're there.  And the devices they point to have major number 14 and
minor 4, 3 and 0 respectively.

> 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. 

Yes, it works with Windows, so this is not a hardware problem.

					Thank you,
					Cedric.