No sound with Thinkpad X60

[Peter Harrison]

Friday, 15 March 2013 at 18:48:24 +0100, Michael Ross said:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:59:09 +0100, Peter Harrison  
> <four.harrisons at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I've a problem with sound on a Thinkpad X60, which has an Intel HDA chip.
> >
> > This is what I see in dmesg:
> >
> > hdac0: <Intel 82801G HDA Controller> mem 0xee240000-0xee243fff irq 17 at  
> > device 27.0 on pci0
> > hdacc0: <Analog Devices AD1981HD HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
> > hdaa0: <Analog Devices AD1981HD Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
> > pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981HD (Analog)> at nid 5 and 25,8 on hdaa0
> > hdacc1: <Conexant (0x2bfa) HDA CODEC> at cad 1 on hdac0
> > unknown: <Conexant (0x2bfa) HDA CODEC Modem Function Group> at nid 2 on  
> > hdacc1 (no driver attached)
> >
> > and from sndstat:
> >
> > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
> > Installed devices:
> > pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981HD (Analog)> (play/rec) default
> >
> > and from mixer:
> >
> > Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
> > Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100
> > Mixer speaker  is currently set to 100:100
> > Mixer cd       is currently set to   1:1
> > Mixer rec      is currently set to   1:1
> > Mixer igain    is currently set to  42:42
> > Mixer ogain    is currently set to 100:100
> > Mixer monitor  is currently set to  67:67
> > Recording source: cd
> >
> > But I have no sound. This is using Gnome 2.32 on 9.1-R. I did initially  
> > accidentally install Pulseaudio, but have subsequently deleted it and  
> > reinstalled everything that depended on it without the Pulseaudio  
> > dependency.
> >
> > Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> Possibly not helping a lot:
> 
> I have a T510 thinkpad with Intel HDA audio, running Windows 7.
> I need to have the audio driver *and* the modem driver installed for any  
> sound to work.
> So possibly the modem part has to be initialised or something.
> You have "no driver attached" on your modem, so maybe that's worth looking  
> at.
> 
> You could also try if sound works from a terminal without running Gnome at  
> all,
> just to be sure it's not some Gnome configuration thing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael

Thanks Michael.

Tried turning gnome off. Still no sound from the console. Is there a FreeBSD kernel module for the modem?

Thanks again,



Peter Harrison.