No sound with Thinkpad X60

[Peter Harrison]

Saturday, 16 March 2013 at  0:17:18 +0100, Michael Ross said:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:28:27 +0100, Peter Harrison  
> <four.harrisons at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> Don't know.
> But stepping back, do you have snd_hda loaded?
> ( Silly me, should have been the first question. )
> 
> Found this:
> http://www.bmichelsen.no/blog/2012/01/28/configuring-freebsd-for-x60s/
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael

Sorry for the late reply, been away from the keyboard for a while.

I'm not loading snd_hda separately, but it's definitely there:

root at thinkpad:/home/peter # kldload snd_hda
kldload: can't load snd_hda: File exists

I've seen that blog and a couple of other sites describing configure FreeBSD on the X60, and they all seem to infer that sound works without a problem.

So for the moment at least I'm stumped.

Thanks for trying to help.

Cheers,



Peter Harrison.