[SOLVED SPEAKERS] 2010-Beta2 on my new Sony Vaio

[Timothy]

See "Shiny New Vaio - Everything Working".

Having just returned from a month in dial-up wilderness, I was ecstatic to see 2010-Beta2 available...  Download, burn and install!

Everything appears to work wonderfully with two caveats:
1.  The nVidia display driver still doesn't recognize the monitor configuration so you need to extract the monitor EDID and edit xorg.conf accordingly. Working with EDID file.
2.  Sound works but only with external speakers; the internal speakers are not active.  Not a big deal as external speakers or headphones is my usual set up.

Happy Days  

[scoundrel]

sweet .. now..could you give up the specs on said culprit 


P.S ..have you checked if speakers are not muted ?? or have you run alsaconf in root terminal ??

[Timothy]

Not sure what the story on the speakers is...  There doesn't seem to be anywhere in the sound configuration to enable/disable them, and they were working with my previous attempts.  I had already run alsaconf, but it made no difference.

The specs are:
Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
Intel ‎5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
HDD sATA FUJITSU MJA2500B 500GB
MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ141AS CD/DVD-Burner BR-Player
nVidia 310M Videocard @ 1600x900
Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio / nVidia HDA
SuYin WebCam (now working with uvcvideo, wasn't working before)
‎Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
Broadcom Bluetooth
Marvell Yukon 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Atheros AR9287 Wireless NIC
‎Ricoh FireWire (IEEE 1394)
4GB DDR3 RAM

[pags]

Is this a laptop?  Check scoundrel's reply...I have (had?) an older Sony Vaio that had a hardware switch mute for the speakers...

Also, check in kmix config for additional channels, options.  I have a Dell docking station that needs "IEC958" channel made visible, and then un-muted, to use the speaker jack on the docking station itself...

[Timothy]

Yes, it's a laptop (Model VPCF111FD).  One of the "desk station replacement" kind...

No hardware mute switch that I am aware of, and no additional channels/switches available in kmix.  I'll keep poking around and see if I can find a solution.

[pags]

Kmix, open the MIXER...click SETTINGS > CONFIGURE CHANNELS, and drag anything in "Available channels" over to "Visible channels".  Click OK and try playing with any new sliders, switches, etc...

[Timothy]

OK, with 2010Beta2 "as installed", I only had the following channels: Master, PCM and Capture.  No other channels, no switches, and nothing for the speaker.  However, I had sound working on my previous install of 2009-2 after I built 1.0.22.1 myself.  So...

I downloaded 1.0.22.1 from alsa-project.org and built the drivers myself.
I now have the following channels:  Master, PCM, Headphone, Speaker, IEC958, IEC958DefaultPCM, Capture, FrontMicBoost, MicBoost and Beep.

And. lo and behold, the internal speakers work!

I believe that's everything working now 

[scoundrel]

[fishfillet]

Almost the same thing happened on an installation to an Acer Aspire 4736z laptop.

The solutions however was simpler as I don't even know how to build anything.

Just go PCC, Look for Hardware Configuration, click on the soundcard, click on config tool, and put -1 on probe_mask and model acer.  I wonder if it will work on your laptop using model sony?