Lenovo A61e and sound

[mrsean2k]

First, apologies if this is a double post; I could swear I successfully posted this yesterday, but it isn't here or in my drafts folder.

I bough an Lenovo A61e for my brother and set it up dual-boot with Daryna KDE Community edition.

Just about perfect except that I couldn't get the sound to work out of the box.

I'm struggling a *bit* now as the PC is 160 miles away, but has anyone had success with this particular PC?

[Husse]

I thought I'd seen and perhaps even help solve a sound problem with this model, but I can't find anything
We need to know which sound chip.
Ask you brother to run

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lspci grep | audio

and post the result
If you search for a specific laptop you cannot be sure that the specs you find are correct

[mrsean2k]

I thought I'd seen and perhaps even help solve a sound problem with this model, but I can't find anything
We need to know which sound chip.
Ask you brother to run

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lspci grep | audio

and post the result
If you search for a specific laptop you cannot be sure that the specs you find are correct

I will do, thanks.

I did search and follow a few solutions, but after 4 or 5 failures, I wanted to roll back to a known-state and approach it more rigorously. Should have noted all this stuff as I ran exactly that command myself. Tsk.

[mrsean2k]

I thought I'd seen and perhaps even help solve a sound problem with this model, but I can't find anything
We need to know which sound chip.
Ask you brother to run

Code: Select all

lspci grep | audio

and post the result
If you search for a specific laptop you cannot be sure that the specs you find are correct

As a slight correction, it needed:

lspci | grep Audio

The output from lspci -v is:


==============================
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: ff100000-ff3fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000cff00000-00000000dfefffff
Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f

00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: ff400000-ff4fffff
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
I/O ports at e000 [size=8]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
Memory at ff5ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at ff5fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at ff5fd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at ff5fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at ff5fb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at ff5fa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at ff5ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [e4] Debug port

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 0b00 [size=16]
Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at ff5f4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [f0] #0f [0010]

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at ff3f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
Memory at ff200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5786 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 101f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at ff4f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
==============================

[Husse]

You have

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia

A new one to me - I have to dig deeper
As a sidenote this would be the best command

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lspci | grep -i audio

Must remember that (-i makes it ignore case)

[BlahBlah_X]

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-570442.html

That could be useful.

[mrsean2k]

You have

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia

A new one to me - I have to dig deeper
As a sidenote this would be the best command

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lspci | grep -i audio

Must remember that (-i makes it ignore case)

Ah, ok.

In the end, I asked my brother just to send the whole lot, and then decided to paste it intact as there seemed to be several related entries. Sorry if it took a bit of wading through.

[mrsean2k]

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-570442.html

That could be useful.

Aha,

From that thread:

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sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-generic & sudo reboot
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did the trick and sound is now working like a champ.

Thanks to everyone for their help / pointers

Sean