Bug 141115

Summary:	no sound at all on IBM thinkpad R50p
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Dreher <michael.dreher>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	output of amixer /etc/asound.state dmesg output of hwinfo --sound output of lsmod output of lspci -vv typescript of aplay

Description Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:29:26 UTC

after upgrading from suse 9.2 to 10.0, there is no sound.

the modules are loaded. the system beep works. 
the mixer is OK. 
when I do "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav", the cursor
comes back after some seconds, but there is no sound 
(neither the speakers in the notebook nor from the headphones).

it was working in Suse 9.2

I will attach the outputs of
dmesg,
lsmod,
amixer,
hwinfo --sound
lspci -vv

Comment 1 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:30:26 UTC

Created attachment 61815 [details]
output of amixer

Comment 2 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:31:01 UTC

Created attachment 61816 [details]
/etc/asound.state

Comment 3 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:31:30 UTC

Created attachment 61818 [details]
dmesg

Comment 4 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:32:02 UTC

Created attachment 61819 [details]
output of hwinfo --sound

Comment 5 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:32:35 UTC

Created attachment 61820 [details]
output of lsmod

Comment 6 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:33:10 UTC

Created attachment 61821 [details]
output of lspci -vv

Comment 7 Michael Dreher 2005-12-30 00:33:53 UTC

Created attachment 61822 [details]
typescript of aplay

Comment 8 Jaroslav Kysela 2006-01-03 10:25:03 UTC

Try toggle 'Line Jack Sense' and / or 'External Amplifier' in alsamixer.

Comment 9 Michael Dreher 2006-01-04 13:02:52 UTC

I tried all 4 possibilities, and "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav"
was always silent.

Comment 10 Takashi Iwai 2006-01-05 18:19:38 UTC

Did you turn off 'Headphone Jack Sense', too?

Comment 11 Michael Dreher 2006-01-06 00:13:44 UTC

I did not try this before. 
Now I did, and the following configuration is the only one that works:
Headphone Jack Sense = off
Line Jack Sense = off 

The value of "External Amplifier" does not matter.

Therefore, I have one or two wishes/questions:
* other defaults (if possible)
* better documentation (for instance, a more informative help text in YaST) ?

Maybe, other users are falling over this issue, too.
Thank you for your help.

Comment 12 Takashi Iwai 2006-01-11 15:54:51 UTC

The default values are both off, but they were turned on (accidentally?) by some apps.  I'll remove these controls for specific devices to avoid such problems in the future version.