[Solved] Dell Latitude C610 - KDE No sound

[OldGuy]

Prepping a C610 for a friend of mine, he can't afford a laptop (or any computer) and I have this one I'm not using.

Ran into a funny problem, I'm updated fully to KDE as of today and when I go to play a file that has sound, no sound comes out.  In fact I have no startup sounds from KDE too.

Now here's the problem workaround, I open my mixer and at the bottom of the Master slider I click on the speaker (which shows ON by the way), it then shows off, and I click it again, and the sound works.  It's like the sound is auto set to off (Master) when I reboot.  Yet the mixer shows no red X on the Master Speaker.

Anyone run into the same problem?  Suggestions would help greatly, this machine is for him and his daughter of 5, so got lot's of educations junk and games loaded on, many requiring sound.

Thank you in advance!

[AndrzejL]

I have exactly the same laptop here. All I had to do is this:

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su

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service alsa force-stop

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alsaconf
(enter enter enter till it finishes)

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reboot
After the reboot

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alsamixer
and play with the settings (left / right / up / down arrows / m / esc...)

then right click on the KMix > Select Master channel > PCM (as far as I remember...)

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su

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alsactl store

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service alsa force-stop

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reboot
After this - You should be good.

Andy

[OldGuy]

AndrzejL, 

Thanks for the tip, got another machine to fix for a friend, she uses win ah win something, the name escapes me.  Once that is done I'll try your good suggestions and post a solve on this thread. 

Thank you for your help.  This forum and it's members are just plain wonderful.

[AndrzejL]

AndrzejL, 

Thanks for the tip, got another machine to fix for a friend, she uses win ah win something, the name escapes me.  Once that is done I'll try your good suggestions and post a solve on this thread. 

Thank you for your help.  This forum and it's members are just plain wonderful.

No problem Amigo. I hope it works for You just as good as it always works for me.

Alsamixer is a fantastic tool btw... Easy to use. Powerful.

Andy

[OldGuy]

AndrzejL, 

Thanks for the tip, got another machine to fix for a friend, she uses win ah win something, the name escapes me.  Once that is done I'll try your good suggestions and post a solve on this thread. 

Thank you for your help.  This forum and it's members are just plain wonderful.

No problem Amigo. I hope it works for You just as good as it always works for me.

Alsamixer is a fantastic tool btw... Easy to use. Powerful.

Andy

Andy - It did the job, now dad and his little girl can play games, do education stuff, and even watch a movie or two.  Thank you so much for your help.  Have a great day.

[AndrzejL]

You are very welcome. I am glad I could help. I love this laptop - it's VERY old and still is able to run on batteries for 3 hours... I was lucky and I was able to max out the amount of ram with 2 x 512 MB chips. On top of that PCLinuxOS brings new life to this older machine.

Andy

[OldGuy]

You are very welcome. I am glad I could help. I love this laptop - it's VERY old and still is able to run on batteries for 3 hours... I was lucky and I was able to max out the amount of ram with 2 x 512 MB chips. On top of that PCLinuxOS brings new life to this older machine.

Andy

Me too Andy, it has been a backup machine to my old, very old, tower.  I did find a D630 going for $180 on ebay, and am replacing it for the c610.  But it (c610) will go to a dad/daughter for their use, and I'm sure get more years of wear. 

Seems, for me anyway, the Dell line has been good for my use, I do have the install disks for XP (Home and Pro), and did a backup on Win7 which came with the machine.  I keep them in case I need Windows (pack-rat, I guess).  But looking forward to running PCLinuxOS on the new machine.  I have a Live remaster of my tower, and it rocks on the new machine, just with helping friends haven't had time to install it.

The only thing I miss from XP or 7, are the Skype displays, our linux version is so basic compared to the other OS.  But, ya know, I can live with that for the easy of use and function on PCLinuxOS.

Thank again for your help, and I wish you many more years of service with your lappy too!

[AndrzejL]

[GOTHBITES]

 
+1

[AndrzejL]

+1

Did it worked for You too?

Andy

[OldGuy]

+1

Did it worked for You too?

Andy

Andy on another note - my desktop sound went bloomers-up, and I tried your fix and it brought the sound back.  Might be a good thing for any KDE user to give a try if they have sound problems.

[AndrzejL]

+1

Did it worked for You too?

Andy

Andy on another note - my desktop sound went bloomers-up, and I tried your fix and it brought the sound back.  Might be a good thing for any KDE user to give a try if they have sound problems.

I am glad to hear this .

Andy